Professor Michael Dertouzos, Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science, will moderate a debate on the feasibility of software development for the SDI project. Please join us for dinner and an opportunity to meet some of the panelists. A student representative will report on student reaction to Star Wars projects on campus. Technology has been successfully applied to warfare for millenia. Nothing could be further removed from morality than the way in which global political power is grabbed and maintained.
History is a never-ending sequence of examples.
Students in each concentration can specialize in studying the social dimensions of computing. The faculty at Irvine have been active in this area, with many interdisciplinary projects, since the early 1970's. Examining the social consequences of different kinds of computerization on social life in organizations and in the larger society. Examining the social dimensions of the work and organizational worlds in which computer technologies are developed, marketed, disseminated, deployed, and sustained. Evaluating the effectiveness of strategies for managing the deployment and use of computer-based technologies.