Announcement and Call for Papers

The ETHICOMP conference series is now recognised as one of the premier international events on computer ethics attended by delegates from all over the world. Conferences are held about every 18 months. ETHICOMP 99 is the fourth conference in the series. The conference will be held on 6-7-8 October 1999 at the prestigious LUISS University in the beautiful city of Rome, Italy.

Computer ethics has reached an important point. From its earliest roots it has now become a global subject of concern which is influencing policy formulation, computing practice and computer application. The overall theme for ETHICOMP 99 is "Look to the future of the Information Society". The aim is to focus on how achievements of the past can be built upon to expand the field and to ensure that the important issues impacting upon society, its citizens and its organisations will be effectively addressed and so help improve the quality of life. This will be done from four perspectives:

• Work
• Home and Leisure
• Education
• Regulation

Keynotes

• Professor D G Johnson: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, US
• Professor Stefano Rodota' : President of the Italian Data Protection Authority

Papers covering one or several of these perspectives are called for from business, government, computer science, information systems, law, social sciences and philosophy. Interdisciplinary papers and those from new researchers and practitioners are encouraged. A paper might take a conceptual, applied, practical or historical focus. Case studies and reports on lessons learned in practice are welcomed.

As in previous conferences, papers will be accepted on the basis of a submitted abstract which will be refereed by the programme committee.

An abstract must be between 500 and 750 words in length and submitted via email as embedded plain text or an attachment in RTF or WORD 6 format.

Abstracts must be submitted no later than 15 March 1999 to ccsr@dmu.ac.uk. Authors will be informed of the decision of the programme committee by 19 April 1999

Important Dates

Programme Committee

• Professor Alessandro D'Atri, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy
• Professor Terrell Ward Bynum, Southern Connecticut State University, USA
• Dr N Ben Fairweather, De Montfort University, UK
• Professor Wendy Gordon, Boston University, USA
• Professor Donald Gotterbarn, East Tennessee State University, USA
• Professor Fran Grodzinski, Sacred Heart University, Connecticut, USA
• Dr Duncan Langford, University of Kent, UK
• Dr Antonio Marturano, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy
• Dr Nancy Pouloudi, Brunel University, UK
• Professor Simon Rogerson, De Montfort University, UK

Notes

Conference language is English

For further information contact

Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility
Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH
UK

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