CS8011i: Technology and Society

Seminar Description

Researchers and designers work in a double bind: too close a focus on the practicable and the social may limit their capacities to imagine new solutions and new problems; working blindly towards new technologies, without regard for their value to general society may mean wasting resources that could be more profitably directed to other ends -- or worse, creating new problems that cannot be resolved with a technological fix.

This seminar attempts to give researchers and students a chance to discuss this precarious balance. In a presentation/discussion format, speakers with varied backgrounds and views on technology will visit the seminar, to act as guest discussion moderators and speakers. The emphasis of these sessions will be dependent on the individual guests, covering a gamut from issues of social responsibility in research to personal privacy and security issues in a technological world. This is a BYB (bring your brain) course. The seminar is open to all with an interest in these issues. Students and faculty from outside the College of Computing are especially encouraged to take part.

Note: You do not need to register to attend any spefic week, or even all of the sessions.
 

 If you would like to address the seminar, just send an email to any of the above coordinators.
 
 

April 1	Introduction and look ahead to the rest of the quarter - Organizers
April 8	Caren P. Moore presents Ethics in Technology
April 15	Arthur Murphy presents "Handicapped Parking vs. Hybrid Humans" --facilitator: Priscilla Dodds
April 22	Earth Day and Women's Awareness Week
April 29	Robert Costner of Electronic Frontiers Georgia --facilitator: Robert Orr
May 6	Hans Klein on the "Internet in Politics" --facilitator: Robert Orr
May 13	Caren P. Moore speaks on 'Technology and Community Outreach' based on her work through the YMCA
May 20	Colin Potts on "Digital Manipulation and Cameras that Lie" --facilitator Priscilla Dodds
May 27	TBA
June 3	Conclusion & Wrap-Up

 
Other Items of Interest:
The RealAudio recording of the November 13th GVU Faculty Roundtable titled "What are the Social Responsibilities of Innovators in HCI" is
avialable here.

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