roundtable: Alert #1: Fifth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy

roundtable: Alert #1: Fifth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy

Alert #1: Fifth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy

Carey Heckman (ceh@leland.Stanford.EDU)
Fri, 24 Feb 1995 01:15:23 -0800 (PST) 

From: Carey Heckman <ceh@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Message-Id: <199502240915.BAA16645@elaine5.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Alert #1: Fifth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 01:15:23 -0800 (PST)
To: roundtable@cni.org


CFP'95 ALERT #1

* WHY CFP
* WHAT'S NEW FOR '95?
* EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 24
* PAEAN TO UNSUNG HEROES
* THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE WATCHING
* CONNECTING TO CFP'95

WHY CFP

Never has the need for a conference on computers, freedom, 
and privacy been so urgent.

New laws are being proposed. New commercial ventures are 
being launched. New arrests are being made. New conceptions 
(and misconceptions) are being spread by newspapers, 
magazines, books, and broadcast media. New lawsuits are being 
filed. New databases are being created.

In short, new threats are emerging and new crises are brewing,
all while new opportunities are evolving.

Exploring and better understanding the definition of our 
rights at this crucial crossroads of the Information Age 
requires a balanced public forum that includes participants from 
computer science, law, business, research, information, 
library science, health, public policy, law enforcement, 
public advocacy, and others.

That's the Fifth Conference on Computers, Freedom and 
Privacy. March 28-31, 1995. Burlingame, California.

WHAT'S NEW FOR '95?

If you have attended a previous Conference on Computers, 
Freedom and Privacy, you have some idea of the high quality 
and diversity of people the conference attracts as speakers 
and attendees. CFP'95 continues that tradition, but breaks 
new ground as well.

Topics: CFP'95 covers the critical issues of the day, 
including those that touch on freedom of speech, privacy, 
access to public records, freedom of association, and fair 
access to computer and telecommunications technologies. The 
program gives particular emphasis to how the growth of 
computer and data communications into the mainstream expands 
and threatens our freedoms.

Speakers: With more than half of the CFP'95 Program Committee 
new to organizing the conference, it should come as no 
surprise that CFP'95 is far from a gathering of the usual 
suspects.

Among this year's featured speakers are John Morgridge, chairman 
of Cisco Systems; Roger Wilkins a Pulitzer Prize-winning 
commentator for National Public Radio and Professor of History 
and American Culture at George Mason University; Margaret Jane 
Radin, a Stanford Law School professor and expert on property 
law and political philosophy; and Esther Dyson, founder of EDventure 
Holdings, editor of Release 1.0., co-chair of the National
Information Infrastructure Advisory Council's Information Privacy 
and Intellectual Property Subcommittee, and among the leading 
experts on computers, software, and computer communications in 
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Also included in the CFP'95 program are

  *  Kent Walker, the Assistant United States Attorney who
     led the investigation and arrest of Kevin Mitnick.

  *  Brock Meeks, the journalist who defended himself from
     an Internet libel lawsuit earlier this year.

  *  Pamela Samuelson, the University of Pittsburgh law professor
     who co-authored the manifesto urging a radical redefinition
     of legal protection for computer software.

  *  Roger Karraker, the director of the Santa Rosa Junior
     College journalism program where the tension between
     free speech and sexual harassment on computer bulletin
     boards became a national news story.

  *  Virginia Rezmierski, the advisor on policy to the Vice
     Provost for Information Technology at the University of
     Michigan where Jake Baker was indicted for publishing a
     story on the Internet.

Formats: The issues discussed at CFP'95 have two or more 
sides, and rather than have panel of speakers after panel of 
speakers, the session formats have been designed to showcase 
different perspectives and stimulate audience interaction.

For example, Thursday afternoon features a Socratic forum on free 
speech and responsibility, led by professional moderator Professor 
Kim Taylor-Thompson of Stanford Law School. A Socratic forum assembles 
experts from various disciplines who role play themselves in a 
hypothetical scenario. The moderator fires questions and stokes 
discussion between the experts to create a bright light of information 
(as well as some white hot heat of controversy).

EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 24

Register this week to save as much as $175 in registration 
fees. You can do this by mail, phone, fax, or electronic 
mail. See the contact information below for how to get 
registration information.

PAEAN TO UNSUNG HEROES

Each Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy is a non-
profit, non-commercial event. CFP'95 is no exception. 
Volunteer Coordinator Judi Clark has already assembled a 
remarkable corps of volunteers who will be staffing the 
registration desk, making sure sessions go smoothly, taking 
photographs, and a host of other indispensable functions.

Many thanks in advance to Judi and the rest of the volunteers 
for making CFP'95 possible.

THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE WATCHING

Media Coordinator Scott Nicholas reports active press interest in CFP'95.
Requests for press credentials have already been received from national
newspapers, newsweeklies, broadcast media, foreign publications, and a
variety of trade magazines. Past CFPs have attracted CNN, the New York
Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today.  

CONNECTING TO CFP'95

Registration and other information about CFP'95 is readily 
available from many sources:

By WWW:        URL=http://www-techlaw.stanford.edu/CFP95.html
By Gopher:     www-techlaw.stanford.edu
By FTP:        www-techlaw.stanford.edu
By Email:      Info.CFP95@forsythe.stanford.edu
By Fax:        (415) 548-0840
By Telephone:  (415) 548-9673

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