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Events - IT, Ethics, and Law

IT, Ethics, and Law

This ongoing series of panel discussions and lectures focuses on the ethical, social, and legal implications of information technologies. Co-sponsored by the Ethics Center, the Center for Science, Technology, and Society, and the High Tech Law Institute, the programs look at cutting-edge technologies and the challenges they raise;


 

Minds for Sale: Ubiquitous Human Computing and the Future of the Internet

Speaker
  • Professor Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law School; Co-Founder, Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Blogs on "Minds for Sale"

Protecting Personal Identities Online

Speaker
  • Erika Rottenberg, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of LinkedIn

Information Technology Policy and the Next American President

Speaker and Respondents
  • Larry Magid, CBS News technology analyst
  • Geoffrey Bowker, executive director, SCU Center for Science, Technology, and Society
  • Kirk O. Hanson, executive director, the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Podcast

The World that Wikipedia Made

A panel discussion on technology, ethics, and the law in the Wikipedia editing model

Panelists


  1. Carl Hewitt, emeritus, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
  2. Pedro Hernández-Ramos, associate director, Center for Science, Technology, and Society.

Podcast

Trust Online

A conference exploring the technical, regulatory, social, and ethical issues in building sustained confidence in a global, virtual marketplace.

Keynotes
  • Richard Clarke, national coordinator for security and counterterrorism, and special advisor to the president on cyber security
  • Dave Cullinane, chief information security officer, eBay Inc.

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The Present and Future of Social Networking

Speakers
  • Marian Liu, multi-media entertainment critic for the San Jose Mercury News
  • Jim Squires, vice president of products at Ning
  • Kaitlin Thompson, SCU sophomore
  • Shannon Vallor, assistant professor of philosophy, SCU

Transcript
Podcast

Virtues and Vices of Open Source

Speaker
  • Eben Moglen, chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center and general council of the Free Software Foundation

Transcript
Podcast

Privacy and Security in a Wireless World

Panel on the ethical risks society may confront as municipalities begin to offer ubiquitous and possibly free access to the Internet

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Traces of Ourselves: The Ethics and Politics of Databases

Speakers
  • Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corp. and president and chair of Open Source Applications Foundation
  • John Arquilla, professor of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School
  • S. Leigh Star, senior scholar at SCU's Center for Science, Technology, and Societ
  • Kirk O. Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, panel moderator

Transcript
Podcast

 

The Ethics and Poltics of Search Engines

Speakers
  • Peter Norvig, director of research, Google
  • Terry Winograd, professor of computer science, Stanford University
  • Geoffrey Bowker, executive director, Center for Science, Technology, and Society
  • Kirk O. Hanson, executive director, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, moderator
  • Introduced by S. Leigh Star, senior scholar, Center for Science, Technology, and Society

Transcript
Podcast

Video Gaming: Playing With Ethics

Speakers
  • Leland Yee, California state assemblyman, author of a measure to prevent the sale of violent games to minors
  • Mike Antonucci, tech writer, San Jose Mercury News
  • Kristin Asleson McDonnell, CEO, LimeLife, a company that develops mobile phone games for women and girls
  • Caroline Ratajski, SCU senior, computer engineering major, and video gamer
  • Chad Raphael, professor of communication, moderator
  • Introduced by S. Leigh Star, senior scholar, Center for Science, Technology, and Society

Transcript
Podcast