Soctech:Meeting of 2004-07-22
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Society and technology meeting w/ Caroline Benner of Center for Internet Studies
CIS mandate: to foster interdisciplinary collaboration; to identify UW "areas of strength" and cater to them
Challenges
- Vocabulary gap
Proposed activities
(this is just a very raw initial list)
- preparation of white papers to brief people?
- UW open source conference
- lectures/debates from outside speakers
Misc notes
- Caroline has surveyed other universities; nobody's doing a good job
- Challenge: "technology and society" actually encompasses a wide variety of interests; lots of people will be interested in their particular corner. It is difficult to get people together.
- Courses at other depts.:
- Brian Kernighan teaches a course at Princeton "Computers in our World"
- Vincent Poor: Princeton course on wireless technology, with invited talks with professors from various departments
- Digital Dilemmas @ Stanford
- MIT, Harvard starting open source classes
- Sarah Baase textbook