24 December 1997
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 10:45:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Tonguc Unluyurt <tonguc@av.rutgers.edu>
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DIMACS Workshop on Design for Values: Ethical, Social and Political
Dimensions of Information Technology
February 28 - March 1, 1998
Princeton University, Department of Computer Science
Organizers:
Helen Nisssenbaum, University Center for Human Values, Princeton
University, helen@princeton.edu
Bernard Chazelle, Computer Science Department, Princeton University
Contact: Sandy Barbu, barbu@cs.princeton.edu
The workshop will offer four panel presentations beginning Saturday, February
28 at 9:30 a.m. The final panelwill take place Sunday, March 1, 10:00 -12:00
a.m.
Panels will be organized around the central theme of how computer and
information systems are shaped by societal and ethical values, including
broadly encompassing values such as fair distribution of goods and power,
freedom, autonomy, sovereignty, and privacy as well as more specific human
ends such as wealth, efficacy, and rights to free expression, association,
private and property.
Panel presenters, representing the fields of computer science, the social
sciences, philosophy, and policy studies, will discuss values embedded in
specific systems, including but not limited to the net, encryption,
security, autonomous agents, educational software, user-interfaces, and
the structure of information systems. They may be guided by questions such
as:
How do values influence or determine the shape of computer and
information systems?
Whose ends, interests or values are best, and most frequently,
represented in contemporary systems?
By what means are values embedded in systems -- public policy,
markets, or the discretion of individual
scientists and engineers?
Are some of these sources more ``legitimate'' than others?
What values ought to shape computer and information systems?
Is there some shared sense of public, community or individual welfare
that ought to drive the design of
systems?
Is it enough to ``let the market decide''?
Program:
Scheduled Program of Workshop:
(Preliminary)
Saturday, February 28, 1998
9:15 - 9:45 Coffee and refreshments
9:45 - 10:00 Welcome Remarks from the Organizers
10:00 - 12:00 Panel I -- Philosophical Perspectives
Panelists:
Philip Brey
Marvin Croy
Deborah Johnson
James Moor
Jeroen van den Hoven
(Helen Nissenbaum, Moderator)
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch for participants and registered attendees
1:30 - 3:30 Panel II -- Technical Perspectives
Panelists:
Edward Felten
Batya Friedman
Brian LaMacchia
Abbe Mowshowitz
(Joan Feigenbaum, Moderator)
3:30 - 4:00 Refreshements
4:00 - 6:00 Panel III -- Social Science Perspectives
Panelists:
Rob Kling
Janet Schofield
Susan Leigh Star
Paul Starr
(Michael Mahoney, Moderator)
Sunday, March 3, 1998
10:00 - 12:00 Panel IV -- Policy Perspectives
Panelists:
Jean Camp
Lorrie Cranor
Deborah Hurley
W. Russell Neuman
Lodis Rhodes
Panelists in alphabetical order:
Philip Brey, Technical University Twente, The Netherlands
Jean Camp, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Lorrie Cranor, AT&T Labs -- Research
Marvin Croy, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina
Joan Feigenbaum, AT&T Labs -- Research
Edward Felten, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University
Batya Friedman, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Colby
College
Deborah Hurley, Terra Nova and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University
Deborah Johnson, School of Science, Technology and Society,
Rensselaer Polytechnic University
Rob Kling, Center for Social Informatics, Indiana University,
Bloomington
Brian LaMacchia, Microsoft Corporation
Michael Mahoney, Department of History, Princeton University
James Moor, Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth College
Abbe Mowshowitz, Department of Computer Science, CUNY
W. Russell Neuman, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of
Pennsylvania
Helen Nissenbaum, University Center for Human Values, Princeton
University
Lodis Rhodes, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University
of Texas, Austin
Janet Schofield, Department of Psychology and Learning Research &
Development Center, University of Pittsburgh
Susan Leigh Star, Library and Information Sciences, University of
Illinois, Champagne-Urbana
Paul Starr, Department of Sociology, Princeton University
Jeroen van den Hoven, Department of Philosophy, Erasmus
University-Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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