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- Computer underground Digest Sun Aug 21, 1994 Volume 6 : Issue 75
- ISSN 1004-042X
-
- Editors: Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer (TK0JUT2@NIU.BITNET)
- Archivist: Brendan Kehoe
- Retiring Shadow Archivist: Stanton McCandlish
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- CONTENTS, #6.75 (Sun, Aug 21, 1994)
-
- File 1--Up-coming Computer-Related Conferences
- File 2--Are You Ready for the Revolution?!
- File 3--Privacy Conference
- File 4--Internet Conference Announcement (RICIS / U of Houston)
- File 5--CPSR Annual Meeting, Oct 8-9, San Diego
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-
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 10:18:16 -0700
- From: email list server <listserv@SNYSIDE.SUNNYSIDE.COM>
- Subject: 1--Up-coming Computer-Related Conferences
-
- CPSR Members, If you are planning to attend a conference, please
- contact CPSR at cpsr@cpsr.org or (415) 322-3778 for easy ways for
- you to be a presence for CPSR.
-
- CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
-
- <Conferences prior to 9 August deleted>
-
- Computers in Context (Third Decennial Conference)"Joining Forces in Design"
- Aarhus, DENMARK, August 14-18. Contact: jgaertne@email.tuwien.ac.at
-
- VRST '94 (Virtual Reality Software and Technology), SINGAPORE, Aug 23-26.
- Contact: gsingh@iss.nus.sg
-
- Technologies of Surveillance; Technologies of Privacy. The Hague, The
- NETHERLANDS, Sept. 5. Sponsored by Privacy International and EPIC.
- Contact: Simon Davies davies@privint.demon.co.uk
-
- 16th International Conference on Data Protection. The Hague, The
- NETHERLANDS, Sept. 6-8. Contact B. Crouwers 31 70 3190190 (tel)
- 31 70 3940460 (fax)
-
- Breaking the Barriers to the National Information Infrastructure, ANA Hotel,
- Washington, DC, Sept. 7-8.
- Contact: 908 885-6758 for automated fax information and delivery system.
-
- Seybold San Francisco, Moscone Center, Sept. 13-16. Contact: 800 488-2883
-
- MHVR '94 (Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Virtual Reality), Moscow, RUSSIA,
- Sept. 14-16. Contact: plb@plb.icsti.su
-
- Networks Expo / Communications '94 /Windows World '94, Dallas, TX Sept. 20-22.
- Contact: 800 829-3976.
-
- Executive Summit Meeting of the Central and East European Computer
- Industry, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA, Sept. 25-28.
- Contact: 0005113705@mcimail.com, 212 924-8800 (phone) 212 924-0240 (fax)
-
- Information Superhighway Summit, San Jose, CA, Sept. 26-28. A Comnet
- Conference. Contact: 800-225-4698 (US) or 505 879-6700
-
- National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists "Legal, Ethical and
- Technological Aspects of Computer and Network Use and Abuse" Maryland,
- October 7-9. Contact: 202 326-6600 202 289-4950 (fax) drunkle@aaas.org
-
- CPSR Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Oct. 8-9. Contact: pagre@ucsd.edu
-
- People, Networks, and Communication '94, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 11-14.
- Contact: Dr. Ernest Kho, Jr. 808 933-3383 ekho@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
-
- 4th Beijing International Symposium on Computer-Based Information
- Management (BISCIM '94), Beijing, CHINA, Oct. 14-18.
- Contact: tian@asiainfo.com 214 351-5008 (tel) 214 351-4861 (fax)
-
- Symposium: An Arts and Humanities Policy for the National Information
- Infrastructure. Boston, Mass. October 14-16, 1994. Sponsored by the
- Center for Art Research in Boston. Contact: Jay Jaroslav
- (jaroslav@artdata.win.net).
-
- Third Biennial Conference on Participatory Design, Chapel Hill, North
- Carolina, October 27-28, 1994. Sponsored by CPSR.
- Contact suchman@ncsu.edu 919 942-9773
- http://cpsr.org/cpsr./conferences/pdc94/pdc94.html
- ftp.cpsr.org /cpsr/conferences/pdc94 directory.
-
- Information Systems Education Conference, Sponsored by Education
- Foundation of the DPMA, Louisville, Kentucky, October 28-30
- Contact: cohene@email.enmu.edu
-
- ALCTS Institute on the Electronic Library, San Antonio, TX October 29-30.
- Contact 513 873-2380 513 873-4109(fax) ahirshon@desire.wright.edu
-
- ACM/SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies, Marina del Rey, CA,
- October 31-Nov.1Contact: glinert@cs.washington.edu
-
- Ethics in the Computer Age, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, November 11-13.
- Contact: Dreese@cs.msstate.edu
-
- Open Systems World, Washington Convention Center, DC, Nov. 28-Dec. 2.
- Contact: 301 953-9600 (phone) 301 953-2213 (fax)
-
- North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, San Antonio, TX,
- Dec. 18-21. Contact: nafips94@cs.tamu.edu
-
- ETHICOMP95: An international conference on the ethical issues of using
- Information Technology, DeMontfort University, Leicester, ENGLAND,
- March 28-30, 1995. Contact: Simon Rogerson srog@dmu.ac.uk
- 44 533 577475 (phone) 44 533 541891 (Fax).
- Paper and Workshop Submissions -deadline for notification of intention to
- submit 8/31/94.
-
- Key Players in the Introduction of Information Technology: Their Social
- Responsibility and Professional Training, BELGIUM, July 5-7, 1995.
- Contact: nolod@ccr.jussieu.fr clobet@info.fundp.ac.be
- Paper submissions by Nov. 2, 1994
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sun, 14 Aug 1994 23:59:30 -0700 (PDT)
- From: "Arthur R. McGee" <amcgee@NETCOM.COM>
- Subject: 2--Are You Ready for the Revolution?!
-
- This may have been posted before, I'm not sure. My apologies if it has:
-
- Are You Ready for the Revolution?!
- ----------------------------------
-
- African-Americans and the Information Revolution
- a One-day Conference
-
- The Purpose:
-
- America is at the beginnings of a revolution in telecommunications
- that promises to fundamentally alter the way in which we do
- business, the way in which we learn, the way in which we interact,
- and the way in which we spend our leisure time.
-
- But are you, is Black America, ready for the Revolution?
-
- The facts would seem to suggest that the African-American community
- is ill-prepared to take advantage of this revolution. The call is
- going out for the leadership, for the visionaries in the community
- to assemble to discuss African-Americans, technology and the 21st
- century.
-
- When:
-
- September 14th, 1994, The First Day of the Congressional Black
- Caucus Legislative Weekend
-
- Who Should attend:
-
- Industry executives, foundation executives, government officials,
- minority business owners, community and political activists,
- educators and cultural leaders
-
- Hosted by:
-
- The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and American Visions
- magazine
-
- To Register:
-
- Call 202-675-6736; or fax 202 547-3807
-
- ----------------------------------------------------
-
- Tentative Agenda:
-
- African Americans In the Computer Age
- A One-Day Conference
-
-
- Tentative Agenda
-
- 8:00-8:30 A.M. Registration
-
-
- 8:30-8:45 A.M. Welcome
-
- Hon. Cardiss Collins, Chairwoman, CBCF
-
- 8:45-9:00 A.M. Conference Charge
-
- Quentin Lawson, Executive Director, CBCF
- Timothy Jenkins, Publisher, American Visions
-
- 9:00-9:30 Opening Speaker
- Presiding
- Hon. Major Owens
-
- Keynote Address
- Vice President Al Gore
-
- 9:30-12:00 P.M. Concurrent Workshops
-
- 1. Broadcasting in the Information Age
-
- Cable, Network Television, Radio
- Computer Networks (Compuserve, Internet)
- Telephone, Microwave, Satellite Dish
-
- Representatives from the Cable, Radio
- (National Broadcast Association)
-
- Pat Phelps from Compuserve, Internet founder
-
- 2. Computer Literacy, Long Distance Learning,
- Job Training for the New Workplace
-
- Columbus Hartwell
- IBM classroom
-
- Mind Extension University,
- Disney University
- University of the Virgin Islands
-
- Department of Labor, Personnel Managers
- from the major corporations
-
- 3. Regulating the Information Highway Access,
- Equity and Diversity
-
- Andrew Blau
- Benton Foundation
-
- Jerry Burman
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
-
- 12:00-1:30 P.M.
- Luncheon**
- Presiding
-
- Hon. Eddie Berniece Johnson
-
- Speaker
-
- Assistant Secretary of Defense Emmett Page, Jr.
-
- Dual purpose technology
-
- Ron Brown, Department of Commerce and
- the Information Highway
-
- 1:30-3:00
- 4. Content in the Information Age
-
- Software developers who have Afrocentric
- or Multicultural Products.
-
- Procurement personnel at educational
- institutions.
-
- 5. Community Development
-
- 6. Business Opportunity
-
- Call Thomas Pyle
-
- Lillian B. Handy, Chairwoman
-
- Minority-Owned Business Technology
- Transfer Consortium,
-
- Glen Moore, Defense Information Agency
-
- 3:00-5:00 P.M.
- CEO Roundtable
- Where do we go from here?
- Chair
- General Short
-
- CEO Panel
-
- Mitchell Kapor, Apple Computer
- A. T. & T.
- Texas Instruments
- MCI
- Sony
-
-
- 5:00-5:15
- Closing Summary
- Gary Puckrein, American Visions
- Linda Faye Williams, CBCF, Research Director
-
- 5:15-6:30
- Exhibits and Technology Review
-
- 6:30-8:00 P.M.
- Reception**
- Hon. Kwasi Mfume
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------
-
- *Learn how you can gain access to the billions of dollars that
- federal agencies are spending on the information highway.
-
- *Hear Vice President Albert Gore and Ron Brown speak on the
- information highway and what it means for the African-American
- community
-
- *Interact with senior management at the leading technology
- corporations...joint ventures...jobs
-
- *Talk to nonprofit funding source about our community based
- organizations can get grants to purchase new technology
-
- *Get a first-hand preview of the new technology
-
- *Meet with members of congress and senior government officials who
- will listen to your thoughts on the new techology.
-
- *Learn about the new business opportunites that the information
- highway is creating.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 17:21:49 EST
- From: Dave Banisar <banisar@WASHOFC.EPIC.ORG>
- Subject: 3--Privacy Conference
-
- PRIVACY CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
-
-
- ---------------------------
- TECHNOLOGIES OF SURVEILLANCE
- TECHNOLOGIES OF PROTECTION
- ---------------------------
-
- Sponsored by
-
- Privacy International
- The University of Eindhoven
- The Electronic Privacy Information Center
-
-
- Friday,September 9, 1994
-
- Nieuws Poort International Press Centre
- The Hague, The Netherlands
-
-
- The conference will bring together experts in law, privacy, human
- rights, telecommunications and technology to discuss new technological
- developments that affect personal privacy. The sessions will be
- interactive, starting with introductions to the subjects by leading
- experts, followed by questions and discussion led by the moderators.
-
-
- 8:45 Introduction
-
- Simon Davies, Chairman, Privacy International
-
- 9:00 Information Infrastructures
-
- Marc Rotenberg, Electronic Privacy Information Center (US) Stephanie
- Perrin, Industry Canada
-
- 10:00 Euopean Government Information Sharing Networks
-
- Jos Dumatier, professor of law and director of the Interdisciplinary
- Centre for Law and Information Technology (ICRI) at K.U.Leuven
-
- 11:00 Cryptography Policy
-
- David Banisar, Electronic Privacy Information Center Jan Smiths,
- University of Eindhoven
-
- 12:00 Lunch
-
- 1:00 Smart Cards and Anonymous Digital Transactions
-
- David Chaum, Digicash
-
- 2:00 Wrap up
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- Registration Fees
-
-
- [] Standard - 220 guilders ($120 US)
- [] Non-profit organisations/Educational - 75 guilders ($40 US)
-
-
- Information
-
-
- Name: ____________________________________________________________
-
- Organization: ______________________________________________________
-
- Address:_____________________________________________________________
-
- ________________________________________________________________
-
- Phone/Fax:___________________________________________________________
-
- Electronic Mail: ____________________________________________________
-
-
- Send registration to:
-
- Privacy International
- Washington Office
- Attn: Conference Registration
- 666 Pennsylvania Ave, SE, Suite 301
- Washington, DC 20003
-
- Make Check/Money Order in US Dollars out to Privacy International
-
- Space is limited, please contact us immediately if you wish to attend!
-
- For more information, contact:
- David Banisar
- 1+202-544-9240(voice)
- 1+202-547-5482(fax)
- banisar@epic.org (email)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 14:29:18 -0500 (CDT)
- From: TRULL@CL4.CL.UH.EDU
- Subject: 4--Internet Conference Announcement (RICIS / U of Houston)
-
- EXPLORATION OF THE INTERNET
-
-
- Sponsored by:
-
- University of Houston-Clear Lake
-
- The Research Institute for Computing
- and Information System
-
- University Computing and Telecommunication
-
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) Galveston Bay
- Section
-
-
- 8:00 - 8:45 Registration
- 8:45 - 9:00 Welcome: Susan Gerhart, Director of RICIS
- 9:00 - 9:45 "NSFNET: Connecting with the Global Community"
- Priscilla Jane Huston, Program Director
- for NSFNET Program, National Science
- Foundation
- 9:45 - 10:30 "Information: Aristotle to Internet"
- Mark Rorvig - NASA/JSC
- 10:30 - 11:45 Break-out Activities
- 11:45 - 1:00 Lunch - Box lunch provided
- 1:00 - 2:30 Break-out Activities
- 2:30 - 3:15 "Ethics & Appropriate Use of the
- Internet"
- Invited Edward Cavazos, Attorney at Law,
- Author of the Book, "Your Rights in
- Cyberspace"
- 3:15 - 4:00 Panel and Audience Discussion:
- Summary of the Day & Thoughts about the
- Future:
- * The Day's Speakers
- * UHCL, NASA and other Net Surfers
- 4:00 - 5:30 Break-out Activities
-
-
- Break-out Activities
-
- Demonstrations & Hands-on
-
- World Wide Web Browsers
- MOSAIC
- Lynx
- Gopher - Browsers
- "See you - See me" -
- Interactive Video
-
- Technical Topics
-
- Search, Retrieve & Store
- Subject Aggregation
- Automatic Search - Spiders
- Basics of Networks
- Linking Schools
- Getting Connected
-
- Active Projects
-
- Examples of how people are using the Internet
- K-12 Knowledge Robots
- Environmental Resource Center
- Repository Based Software
- Engineering Project
- NASA Information Bases
-
- Vendors
-
- Putting your business on the internet
- NeoSoft
- The Tenagra Corporation
- CALS Shared Resource Centers
- Technology Transfer
- Texas Innovation Network System
-
-
- Place:
-
- Bayou Building
- University of Houston-Clear Lake
- 2700 Bay Area Blvd.
- Houston, Texas 77058
-
-
- Date: September 14, 1994
-
- Time: 8:00 am - 5:30 pm
-
-
- General Information
-
- Persons who will require special accommodation in order
- to participate in this workshop should contact the
- Professional and Continuing Education (PACE) office no
- later than two working days prior to the event.
-
-
- Registration Fee:
-
- $95 (includes conference registration, lunch and all
- materials)
- $85 IEEE members (includes conference registration, lunch and all materials)
-
-
- Register by:
-
- Phone (713)283-3030
- FAX (713)283-3039
- Or mail the attached form to:
-
- PACE
- University of Houston-Clear Lake
- 2700 Bay Area Blvd.
- Box 254
- Houston, TX 77058-1088
-
-
- --------------------------------------------------------
-
- REGISTRATION FORM
- EXPLORATION OF THE INTERNET
- SEPT. 14, 1994
-
-
- Name____________________________________________________
-
- Professional Affiliation________________________________
-
- Mailing Address_____________________________#Apt#_______
-
- City_________________________State_________Zip__________
-
- Telephone______________________FAX______________________
-
-
- o Enclosed is my check, money order or purchase order
- for the appropriate amount* made payable
- to UHCL
-
- o Purchase order #____________________________
-
- o Please charge the appropriate amount* to:
-
- o MasterCard o VISA
-
- Signature (Name on Card)________________________________
-
- Card #_________________________Exp Date_________________
-
-
- Mail to:
- PACE
- University of Houston-Clear Lake
- 2700 Bay Area Blvd.
- Box 254
- Houston, TX 77058-1088
-
- Phone: (713) 283-3030
- Fax: (713) 283-3039
-
- * $95 or $85 (IEEE members)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 11:40:25 -0700
- From: email list server <listserv@SUNNYSIDE.COM>
- Subject: 5--CPSR Annual Meeting, Oct 8-9, San Diego
-
- **************************
- Please distribute and post
- **************************
-
- ************************************************************************
-
-
- COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- ANNUAL MEETING
-
- October 8 - 9, 1994
-
- University of California, San Diego
- Price Center
- La Jolla, California, USA
-
- Organizing for Access:
- A National Forum on
- Computer Networking, Community Action, and Democracy
-
-
- ************************************************************************
-
-
- In the few short years since the first proposals for a National
- Information Infrastructure (NII), a broad social movement has arisen
- to put that vision into action in communities across the country.
- A remarkable range of people -- educators, librarians, community
- activists, computer people, government agencies, advocates for people
- with disabilities, and others -- have been using computer networks to
- deliver services and to organize themselves behind an emerging agenda
- for computing and networking in the public interest. CPSR is convening
- this meeting for all people interested in the place of computer
- technology in society, with the goal of bringing together a wide range
- of voices to discuss the ways in which the NII might serve the needs
- of society and to empower one another to pursue shared goals in the
- new technological world. Our meeting this year will place particular
- emphasis on providing would-be activists with the skills and connections
- they need to put the vision of democratic technology into practice.
-
-
- Saturday, October 8th
-
- 8:00 - 9:00 Registration/Coffee
-
-
- 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome to the CPSR Annual Meeting
- Phil Agre
-
-
- 9:15 - 10:15 Keynote address
- Francois Bar
- Department of Communication, UCSD
-
- "Staking Claims to the Network"
-
- This is a critical time for grass-roots involvement in shaping
- America's communications networks. National policy-making has
- largely deferred issues of encouraging broad access, preventing
- network fragmentation, and guaranteeing basic individual rights
- and freedoms. Francois Bar argues that broad-based access and
- involvement today are critical -- not as charity, but because
- the network's future can only be imagined and discovered through
- broad-based and sustained experimentation by end-users.
-
-
- 10:15 - 10:45 Break
-
-
- 10:45 - 12:30 Panel Discussion -- Moderated by Steve Miller
-
- "The Meanings of Access"
-
- The theme of "access" has united numerous groups interested in
- ensuring equity in the NII. But "access" is a complex concept with
- many equally important facets. This panel brings together leading
- voices for community access to technology to compare and contrast
- the various technical, social, and institutional meanings of access.
-
- Panelists:
- Karen Coyle, University of California Library Automation and CPSR-Berkeley
- Lee Felsenstein, Interval Research and Berkeley Community Memory
- Deborah Kaplan, World Institute on Disability
- Larry Shaw, The Exploratorium
- Armando Valdez, LatinoNet
-
-
- 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch Break
-
-
- 2:00 - 3:30 Panel Discussion -- Moderated by Kathleen Kells
-
- "Privacy and Intellectual Freedom"
-
- Privacy and intellectual freedom are crucial information rights
- shared by all people. Protecting these rights is a full-time job,
- one that brings the members of several professions into day-to-day
- contact with the the diverse and complicated circumstances in which
- real people need to exercise them. This panel features a discussion
- among three national leaders in the defense of these rights.
-
- Panelists:
- Beth Givens, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, University of San Diego
- Judith Krug, Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association
- Gary Richwald, Department of Health Services, County of Los Angeles
-
-
- 3:30 - 4:00 Break
-
-
- 4:00 - 5:45 Panel Discussion -- Moderated by Rik Belew
-
- "Community Networking in San Diego"
-
- Our host community of San Diego makes a fine "case study" for all of
- our meeting's topics. In this panel, five active community members
- describe the remarkable range of networking projects going on around
- San Diego, placing them in the context of the region's economic and
- institutional evolution.
-
- Panelists:
- Nell Allen, Department of Social Services, County of San Diego
- Marcia Boruta, San Diego Economic Conversion Council
- Sandra Hall, Community Activist
- Al Rogers, Global SchoolNet Foundation
- Mike Stark, San Diego Computer Society
-
-
- 5:45 - 6:00 Closing Remarks -- Judi Clark
-
-
- ************************************************************************
-
-
- 7:00 - 7:30 No Host Bar at Banquet Site
-
- 7:30 - 10:30 CPSR Banquet - Fundraiser - UCSD Faculty Club
-
- (Vegetarian food will be available)
-
- * Presentation of the 1993 Norbert Wiener Award
-
- * Banquet Address -- Patricia Glass Schuman, Neal-Schuman Publishers
-
- "Safeguarding the Right to Know"
-
- Patricia Glass Schuman, librarian, businesswoman and activist
- for free speech, was 1991-92 president of the American Library
- Association (ALA). As ALA President, Schuman launched a series
- of "radio rallies" to focus public attention on threats to the
- public's Right to Know. Hear her call for information activism
- that involves the entire community in strengthening democracy
- by defending and expanding everyone's access to information.
-
-
- ************************************************************************
-
-
- Sunday, October 9th
-
-
- 8:30 - 9:00 Coffee
-
-
- 9:00 - 10:00 Featured speaker
- Sonia Jarvis
- National Coalition on Black Voter Participation
-
- "The Public-Interest Aspects of the Information Superhighway"
-
- Legislators in Washington are now making policies that will affect
- everyone's ability to join in the social and political activities
- that make up a democracy. How can we make sure that those who
- are not technologically literate will have an opportunity to
- participate? Sonia Jarvis will initiate a dialog on strategies
- for ensuring that the public interest is given proper consideration.
-
-
- 10:00 - 10:15 Short Break
-
-
- 10:15 - 12:15 Workshops
-
- Now is the time for everyone to become an activist for democratic
- uses of information technology. No matter what expertise you have
- to offer, or what contribution you'd like to make -- whether it's
- running a bulletin board, starting an on-line discussion group for
- people with a shared interest, organizing a computer network to
- serve your community's needs, helping to protect everyone's privacy
- in a world of computer databases, getting new people into the
- electronic world, joining the larger public-interest movement, or
- drawing on the resources of the net to get people the information
- they need to make informed choices in a democracy -- the necessary
- skills, tools, and connections are readily available. In these
- seven workshops, national experts on technology activism will tell
- you how to get started with your own good deeds on Monday morning.
- More detailed descriptions of each workshop will be available
- sometime in September.
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- Building Community Networks: Promise and Pitfalls
- Aki Namioka and Doug Schuler, Seattle Community Network
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- Legal Issues for BBS Operators
- Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
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- Network-Based Organizing
- Dave Banisar, Electronic Privacy Information Center
- Steve Miller, Administration and Finance, State of Massachusetts
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- Helping People and Organizations Get Started With Networking
- Eric Theise, Liberty Hill Cyberwerks
- Art McGee, Institute for Global Communications
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- Investigative Reporting on the Internet
- Marsha Woodbury, University of Illinois
- Paul Lester, California State University, Fullerton
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- Privacy Activism
- Christine Harbs, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, University of San Diego
- Dave Redell, CPSR Privacy and Civil Liberties Working Group
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- Public Interest Activism and the NII Policy Process
- Bill Drake, Department of Communication, UC San Diego
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- 12:15 - 1:30 Lunch Break
-
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- 1:30 - 4:30 CPSR Organizational Discussion
- in parallel with informal discussion groups
-
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- 4:30 - 5:00 Closing Remarks -- Eric Roberts
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- ABOUT CPSR
-
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility is a national,
- non-partisan, public-interest organization dedicated to understanding
- and directing the impact of computers on society. Decisions regarding
- the use of this technology have far-reaching consequences that
- necessarily reflect the basic values and priorities of the people who
- govern their use.
-
- Founded in 1981, CPSR has 1800 members from all over the United States
- and 21 chapters. Each of our members is an important participant in
- the dialogue that is helping to shape the future use of computers in the
- United States. Our National Advisory Board includes one Nobel laureate
- and three winners of the Turing Award, the highest honor in computer
- science. CPSR published the influential report "Serving the Community"
- on policy issues in the National Information Infrastructure, and is
- an active participant in the Telecommunications Policy Roundtable in
- Washington.
-
- We believe that as the influence of computers continues to permeate
- every aspect of our society, it is important that professionals become
- active participants in formulating the policy that governs computer
- use and access. CPSR welcomes any and all who share our convictions,
- whether they work as computer professionals or not.
-
- For more information, look at the CPSR gopher server, which is located
- at gopher.cpsr.org, as well as the new CPSR WorldWide Web pages, whose
- URL is http://www.cpsr.org/home. Coming soon in these pages: much more
- information about the Annual Meeting.
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- Registration Form
-
- Please pre-register as soon as possible to ensure a space at this
- exciting meeting. Registrations at the door will be accepted as
- space allows. Please send in a separate registration form for each
- individual attending the meeting. And please note that the Saturday
- night banquet is not included in the price of the meeting.
-
-
- Name _________________________________________________________________
-
- Address ______________________________________________________________
-
- City _______________________________ State _____________ Zip _________
-
- Telephone __________________________ E-mail_____________________________
-
-
- CPSR member $55 _______
- Postmarked after September 20th $65 _______
-
- Non member $75 _______
- Postmarked after September 20th $85 _______
-
- New CPSR membership & registration $95 _______
- Postmarked after September 20th $105 _______
-
- Low income $25 _______
- Postmarked after September 20th $35 _______
-
- Banquet tickets $40 X ___ = _______
- Postmarked after September 20th $45 X ___ = _______
-
- Additional donation to further CPSR's work _______
-
- Total enclosed _______
-
- For more information contact CPSR at (415) 322-3778 or cpsr@cpsr.org.
- Send the completed registration form with your check to: CPSR, PO Box
- 717, Palo Alto, CA 94302.
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- End of Computer Underground Digest #6.75
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