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SFC'95 on the web
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Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 15:22:21 -0600
From: Rick Light
INTERNET COVERAGE PLANNED DURING CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL ISSUES OF CYBERSPACE
DURANGO, COLO., June 9, 1995 -- Attendees at a unique conference that begins here Sunday plan to publish their own daily newspaper over the Internet to discuss the future of the information age. Journalists, scientists, social philosophers and others interested in the social impacts of computers, networks and telecommunications media can monitor the news as it breaks over the World Wide Web during the June 11-14 conference, Society and the Future of Computing '95.
About 40 invited panelists will discuss how the technologies associated with information networks affect everyone in society, said conference co-chair Rick Light of Los Alamos National Laboratory. The conference, an initiative of the Association for Computing Machinery, is organized by Los Alamos and the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory.
Among the scheduled sessions are: visions of the future of society and computing; teledemocracy and community networks; electronic commerce and the economy of tomorrow; home life on the network; social needs and the design process; telemedicine, medical imaging and roadblocks on the Infobahn; electronic publishing and digital libraries; education issues and applications; and the role of government. "We will focus on the impact of information technologies on all our lives, not just those impacts that are technology-driven, but the psychological, institutional and other human impacts," Light said. "We're trying to explore and demonstrate the new possibilities that the information revolution is opening up for transformation in ways that produce the maximum social benefits."
Keynote speakers include author and political theorist Langdon Winner of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Paul Young, assistant director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation; Ben Shneiderman, head of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland; and Barbara Simons of IBM.
"We're in the midst of a cultural transformation. At this conference, 200 of the best minds who have studied this transformation will try to devise ways to help society to get where it's headed without a traumatic culture shock, while still preserving human values," Light said.
Summaries of conference sessions, discussions, papers and other news will be posted on the meeting's Web page, beginning as early as Monday afternoon, June 12. The address is:
http://info-server.lanl.gov:52271/usr/u096272/SFC95/sfcHome.html
For more information during the conference, media representatives should
contact Jim Danneskiold
Genereal questions or comments may be emailed to sfc95@lanl.gov. ```
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