CQL'96: Symposium on Computers and the Quality of Life

Preliminary Program
Thursday, Feb. 15


8:30 AM - 10:15 AM

SIGCSE Symposium Opening Plenary: CQL participants are invited to attend.

Tutorial 1: Teaching Professional Ethics and Social Impact, part 1
(Education Track)
Dianne Martin and Chuck Huff will present the teaching framework developed by Project ImpactCS. Ben Shneiderman and Chuck Huff will describe how to use a Social Impact Statement to teach social and ethical skills.

Who should attend? CS professors who want to know how to teach computers and society or computer ethics courses.

Panel Session: Humanizing Computing
(History Track)
A panel of experts will debate whether the paradigm of computing has become more humanized over time.


10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Panel Session: Fact or Fear?
(Workplace Track)
Health Problems Caused by Computers: A panel of experts will examine the research on possible medical problems caused by computers and how those problems have affected the development of information technologies.

Tutorial 2: Teaching Professional Ethics and Social Impact, part 2
(Education Track)
Don Gotterbarn and Robert Riser will present ways to integrate ethics and social impact activities into other computer science courses.

Who should attend? CS professors who want to know how to teach ethics and social impact.

Tutorial 3: Managing without Traditional Structure or Boundaries
(Workplace Track)
Josh Rosenthal of DyAd, Inc., will present an overview of how psychodymanic organizational theory can be applied to produce practical tools and strategies for managing organizations going through radical change caused by the computer revolution. Who should attend? Professors who teach software engineering and systems design to future managers and project leaders.

Paper Session: Quality of Life
(Social Impact Track)
Session featuring papers on impact of computers on the quality of life.


12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Luncheon

Featured Speaker: Langdon Winner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The Digital Society and Its Discontents


2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Closing Plenary Session: Future Views

Six speakers will present their wildest speculations on the future of computing.


MAC / 1-Dec-1995