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

Preliminary Program
Wednesday, Feb. 14

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Opening Plenary Session: Point and Counter Point

Ben Shneiderman, computer scientist from the University of Maryland, and Deborah Johnson, philosopher, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be asked to address the question: What impact has computing had on the overall quality of life over the past five decades?

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Panel Session: Living Better Electronically?
(Workplace Track)
Women and Computing: A panel of experts will debate the impact of computing on women in the workplace.

Paper Session: Teaching Ethics
(Education Track)
Session featuring papers on teaching ethics.

Paper Session: Impact of Online Technologies
(Internet Track)
Paper session featuring research papers on social and ethical impact of the Internet.

12:15 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch Break
(CQL participants are invited to attend an ENIAC media event at the University of Pennsylvania)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Panel Session: The Internet Market Place
(Internet Track)
A panel of experts will debate issues such as cybercash, cyberfraud, and cybersovereignty.

Paper Session: Teaching Social Impact
(Education Track)
Session featuring papers on models and methods for teaching social impact.

Paper Session: Computers on the Job
(Workplace Track)
Session featuring papers on the impact of computers in the workplace.

Panel Session: ENIAC Retrospective
(History Track)
Historians Paul Cerruzi and Michael Williams will discuss the importance of ENIAC on the development of computing.

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Plenary Session: Our Heritage
(History Track)
Computer historian Michael Mahoney will present an historical interpretation of the development of computer technology over the last 50 years.

7:00 PM - 9:30PM

Banquet for Computer Pioneers
(tickets may be purchased on-site)

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM

"Birds of a Feather" Sessions

BOF 1

Tutorial on Use of the WWW to Build Community
(Internet)

Dennis Anderson, St. Francis College, New York, will show how to set up a home page and use it to organize a cyberspace community.

BOF 2

Computers and Society Idea Sharing Sessions
(Education)

Participants in the EPIC Project directed by Deborah Johnson will share teaching ideas developed by the project. Others are invited to bring teaching ideas to share.

BOF 3

Discussion of the Durango Declaration
(Social Impact)

Ben Shneiderman will lead a discussion of the social impact statement developed at the Symposium on the Future of Computing.

BOF 4

Open Session - to be announced
MAC / 1-Dec-1995