The conference is open to the public ($35) and is free to UC Berkeley
Students and Staff who pre-register with a UC ID. There is limited
attendance, so if you are interested in attending, pre-registration is
recommended. Please call UC Berkeley Extension at (510) 642-4111
(reference number EDP 391938). For more information go to the Web page
for
the conference: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/conferences or send email to
RKR@unx.berkeley.edu.
Hope to see you there.
Lisa Schiff
doctoral student
School of Information Management and Systems
UC Berkeley
lschiff@info.berkeley.edu
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Ethics of the Internet
Saturday November 18
145 Dwinelle
UC Berkeley Campus
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Welcome
Dr. Hal R. Varian
Dean, UCB School of Information Management and Systems
Setting the Stage: Ethics of the Internet
Dr. Yale Braunstein
Associate Professor, UCB School of Information Management and Systems
Morning: Perspectives on Access and Democracy
Access as an Ethics Issue: How Access to the Internet Affects Children
Cynthia Samuels
founding executive producer of Channel One; former planning producer of
Today
Universal Access: Social and Political Implications.
Karen Coyle
Technical Specialist, University of California Library Automation
Unit; Internet instructor; chair of the Berkeley chapter of Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility
Free Expression, Copyright, and Democracy.
Steve Arbuss
attorney and unofficial legal advisor to the Internal Interactive
Communications Society (IICS); expert on privacy and authors' rights
in cyberspace.
Panel of all 3 morning speakers answers remarks from student
responders and questions from audience
Afternoon: Freedoms, Rights, and Crimes
Authenticity, Ownership, and Commercialism of Digital Images.
Howard Besser
Visiting Associate Professor, School of Information and
Library Studies, University of Michigan; expert on image databases and
the impact of multimedia and new information technologies.
Surveillance and Censorship on the Internet.
Jim Warren
MicroTimes columnist; founder of the Computers, Freedom and Privacy
Conferences
and InfoWorld Magazine; pioneer in computer-assisted political action
and civil liberties advocacy.
Controlling Criminal Contamination of the NET.
Don Ingraham
Assistant District Attorney, Alameda County; head of the High Tech
Crime Team; international consultant on computer crime and its
prosecution.
Panel of all 3 afternoon speakers answers remarks from student
responders and questions from audience.
Wrap-up and conclusion - Panel of all 6 speakers.