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From: PLOCH@UTKVX.BITNET (Donald R. Ploch)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Topics for discussion?
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Date: 3 Jan 90 20:11:10 GMT
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I write this in an effort to spur "conversation" in the Computers
and Society Digest forums, throughout the networks.

What are the hot topics?

   Privacy: There was a "scare" piece in The Business Week, 4 Sept.
   1989  "Is Anything Private?"

   Viruses: There is an inflamatory book published in 1989: Mcafee and
   Haynes, "Computer viruses, Worms, Data Diddlers, Killer Programs and
   Other Threats to Your System."

   AI: Scientific American (Jan. 1990) has a debate between Searle and
   the Churchlands. Communications of the ACM has Dijkstra on teaching
   computer science.

   General Overview: William Joel has outlined a course on computers
   and society in the Newsletter of SIGSOC (ACM)

If you are interested in discussing any of these topics, please do so
within the current forum...

Don  (PLOCH@UTKVX)

Donald R. Ploch
Sociology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996-0490
(615)974-7022