Computers and Society Horizon Day

Horizon Day
Cyberspace and the Future of Community

The Indiana University Computer Science Department invites you to attend the Horizon Day on Cyberspace and the Future of Community, Friday, February 7, 1997 in the Georgian Room (first floor) of the Indiana Memorial Union.

PLEASE NOTE: Cyberspace and the Future of Community has been moved to the WHITTENBERGER AUDITORIUM located next to the Georgian Room on the first floor of the IMU.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

We are delighted to welcome the following invited speakers:

William Mitchell, Dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning; author of City of Bits

Geoffrey Nunberg, Xerox PARC;language commentator on NPR's Fresh Air; usage editor of the American Heritage Dictionary; editor of The Future of the Book

Langdon Winner, Professor of Political Science, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; author of Autonomous Technology, The Whale and The Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, and editor of Democracy in a Technological Society

Comments and discussion with:

Rob Kling, Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University; Director of the Center for Social Informatics, editor of Computerization and Controversy

Gregory Rawlins, Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University; author of Moths to the Flame

9:00-9:15 Coffee Reception

9:15-10:30 Morning Session I:

William Mitchell, City of Bits
10:45-12:00 Morning Session II:
- Geoffrey Nunberg, Can Cyberspace Have Margins?
12:00-1:30 Lunch Break (Lunch is not provided.)
1:30-2:45 Afternoon Session:
- Langdon Winner, Cyberlibertarian Dreams and the Future of Civil Society
3:00-4:30 Comments and discussion
- Rob Kling
- Gregory Rawlins
To download a postscript version of the announcement for this symposium, click here. (Warning: this file is 3 megabytes and could take some time to download.)
Cyberspace and the Future of Community is sponsored jointly by the departments of Computer Science and Philosophy and the School of Library and Information Science. The organizers are Michael Dunn, Chair of the Philosophy Department, Rob Kling, Professor, School of Library and Information Science, H. David Mathias, Director of Educational Development and Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department, Benjamin Pierce, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, and Brian Cantwell Smith, Professor, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Philosophy.
For more information, contact H. David Mathias at
dmath@cs.indiana.edu