CEPE 2011 will be hosting one keynote speaker and one keynote panel:
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011:
CEPE 2011 will be hosting a keynote panel comprised of international scholars:
- Rafael Capurro, Ph.D. – Director, Steinbeis-Transfer-Institut Information Ethics
- Charles Ess, Ph.D. – Professor, Department of Information and Media Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark.
- Luciano Floridi, Ph.D. – Research Chair in Philosophy of Information, Department of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire and UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics.
Soraj Hongladarom, Ph.D. – Director, Center for Ethics of Science and Technology and associate professor of philosophy at Chulalongkorn University - Dennis Ocholla, Ph.D. – Senior Professor, University of Zululand
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011:
This year, INSEIT will present the 2010 and 2011 Weizenbaum Awards during the CEPE conference in Milwaukee. In recognition of their vision for, accomplishments in, and life-long dedication to the field of information and computer ethics, Don Gotterbarn and Keith Miller, will engage in a dialogue, moderated by the first Weizenbaum recipient, Terry Bynum.
The exchange will focus on major issues and questions pressing in our field, with an eye to the future of information and computer ethics.
About the Recipients:
Don Gotterbarn is a leading author of the Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice which promotes ethics among software engineers. Gotterbarn received the ACM SIGCAS Making a Difference Award in 2002 for his research and work regarding computer and software engineering ethics. He was awarded the 2005 Outstanding Contribution to the ACM Award “for exceptional accomplishments and leadership as both an educator and practitioner, in establishing the ACM’s Codes of Ethics and promoting the ethical behavior of computing professionals and organizations.”
Keith W. Miller is the Schewe Professor of Liberal Arts at UIS, and has extensive teaching and research experience in computer ethics. His work developing a code of ethics for software engineers included contacts both in academia and industry. He has taught ethics in a standalone course for CS undergraduates and graduates, integrated into a CS course for masters level students, and in a course open to non-CS majors. His work as the editor of IEEE Technology and Society, and as an associate editor for ethics for IEEE IT Professional keeps him current on the issues important to computing practitioners and scholars in relevant applied ethics fields. Dr. Miller has been a pioneer in online ethics teaching at an institution recognized as a leader in online pedagogy.
Friday, June 3rd, 2011:
Toni Samek is a Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta where she has been teaching since 1994. She is the author of Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibility in American Librarianship, 1967-1974 and Librarianship and Human Rights: A twenty-first century guide; she is first editor of She Was a Booklegger: Remembering Celeste West. Toni twice convened the Canadian Library Association Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom and continues to serve on that national committee as well as on both the Canadian Association of University Teachers Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee and Canada’s Book and Periodical Council Freedom of Expression Committee. Toni was named one of two debut Information Ethics Fellows at the Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee. She received the debut Library Journal Teaching Award in 2007. She was honored with a Faculty of Education (University of Alberta) Graduate Teaching Award in 2009. And in 2010 she was appointed Research Fellow with the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research at the University of Alberta. Her interests include: critical librarianship, intercultural information ethics, global information justice, human rights, social justice, academic freedom, and intellectual freedom.
