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UPCOMING EVENTS from Student Pugwash and others!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chitra M Kumar)
Wed Apr 18 15:04:28 2001
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:04:04 -0400
From: Chitra M Kumar <chitrak@MIT.EDU>
Please forward to people or lists that might find these events interesting.
-- Chitra
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*April 24 -- A Conversation about Metaphors, Culture, and Information
Technology (STUDENT PUGWASH)
*April 25 -- MIT Colloquium: National Security, Civil Rights, and Politics:
Lessons Learned from the Wen Ho Lee Case
*April 27-29 -- Race in Digital Space Conference
*About MIT STUDENT PUGWASH
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"A Conversation about Metaphors, Culture, and Information Technology"
Professor Roscoe Giles
Boston University Center for Computational Science
April 24, Tuesday, 7:00pm-8:30pm
Room 4-237
**FREE DINNER**
RSVP to chitrak@mit.edu
Roscoe Giles is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at Boston University. He has done research in theoretical and
computational physics with special emphasis on applications of large scale
parallel computing in these areas. His recent efforts have focused
computational science education and on participatory design of information
systems. He is a team leader for the Education, Outreach and Training
Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (EOT-PACI,
http://www.eot.org), Deputy Director of the Boston University Center for
Computational Science, and Executive Director of the Institute for African
American E-Culture (http://www.iaaec.com).
The new Institute for African American ECulture (http://www.iaaec.com)
attempts to find new ways of 'doing' information systems by involving
technologically diverse groups with a common goal in the development and
creation of IT. An important aspect of this effort is how we use cultural
metaphors to frame our interactions with IT.
Professor Giles will introduce these ideas and then help lead an audience
conversation about them and related ideas that arise.
--Co-Sponsored by MIT Student Pugwash <http://web.mit.edu/pugwash/www> and BU
Student Pugwash <http://people/bu.edu/pugwash>
GREAT PRELUDE TO THE RACE IN DIGITAL SPACE CONFERENCE!
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* MIT Colloquium *
National Security, Civil Rights, and Politics:
Lessons Learned from the Wen Ho Lee Case
April 25th (Wednesday), 4:00-5:30 pm
Room 10-250
http://web.mit.edu/colloquium/2001
On December 10, 1999, the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 was invoked to
prosecute an individual for mishandling classified information "with
the intent to injure the United States" and with the intent to "secure
an advantage to a foreign nation." Los Alamos physicist Wen Ho Lee
was indicted on 39 counts of these violations and 20 counts from the
Federal Espionage Act. The case, which concluded last September after
Dr. Lee spent nine months in pre-trial solitary confinement, provides
many important lessons to be examined.
The colloquium will seek to engage the MIT community about how
national security interests can be protected without infringing on
individual civil liberties and restricting scientific freedom. A
moderated panel discussion will be held in 10-250 on Wednesday, April
25 at 4:00 pm with prominent scientific and government leaders.
Following the event, a reception will be held downstairs in the Bush
Room, 10-105.
Panelists:
* Steven Aftergood, Director, Project on Government Secrecy
* Juliette Kayyem, Executive Director, Executive Session on Domestic
Preparedness, John F. Kennedy School of Government
* Vernon Loeb, National Security Correspondent, Washington Post
* Philip Morrison, Institute Professor and Professor of Physics, Emeritus
* Paul Watanabe, Co-Director of the Institute for Asian American Studies
and Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Boston
* Sheila Widnall, Institute Professor and former Secretary of the Air
Force (Moderator)
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Race in Digital Space
A National Conference on Race and New Media Technologies
Friday, April 27 - Sunday, April 29, 2001
Cambridge, MA
http://cms.mit.edu/race/
Presented by University of Southern California and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In conjunction with University of California-Santa
Barbara and New York University
Cyberspace has been represented as a race-blind environment, yet our everyday
encounters with race have consequences--both "inside and outside the box."
Although most discussions of the "digital divide" have tended to erase the
numerous contributions of minority artists, activists, entrepreneurs,
journalists, and scholars, this conference celebrates those
accomplishments, while situating them against the backdrop of the
challenges we still must confront in order to insure equal access to
information technologies. What cultural and social baggage do we carry into
the digital domain? How does the "race" for connectivity, access, and linkage
relate to other races for visibility and equal opportunity? How are
communities tackling political and economic inequalities in order to bridge
the "digital
divide"? How have minority communities deployed digital tools to comment on
digital culture, to reconfigure the history of racism, and to claim a more
powerful voice in shaping the future? Racism affects all Americans and so we
are bringing together speakers of many different races and backgrounds to
share their experiences and offer their solutions.
For details see: http://cms.mit.edu/race/
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ABOUT STUDENT PUGWASH AT MIT
MIT Student Pugwash is a chapter of Student Pugwash USA.
The mission of Student Pugwash USA is to promote the socially responsible
application of science and technology in the 21st century. As a student
organization, Student Pugwash USA encourages young people to examine the
ethical, social, and global implications of science and technology, and to
make these concerns a guiding focus of their academic and professional
endeavors.
Founded in 1979, Student Pugwash USA takes its name from our parent
organization,the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. After the
development of the hydrogen bomb, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, and other
eminent scientists issued a manifesto urging people to "remember your humanity
and forget the rest." This manifesto led to a historic meeting which took
place in 1957 in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, where scientists from around the world
made a bold stand for scientific responsibility and peaceful solutions in a
world forever changed by weapons of mass destruction.
Pugwash and Joseph Rotblat, one of its founders, received the 1995 Nobel Peace
Prize for this important and world-changing work. There are over 20 national
Student and Young Pugwash groups around the world.
MIT Student Pugwash invites any interested MIT community members to
participate in the planning and organizing of events and activities.
For more information visit: http://web.mit.edu/pugwash/www/
Questions or suggestions? Write: pugwash-officer@mit.edu
