IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
Boston Chapter
...striving for the application of science and technology for the beneficial use of humanity and for high professional and ethical standards.
Steering Committee:
James Ernstmeyer, Chair ernstmeyer <at> ieee.org
Mike Brenner, Vice-chair mikeb <at> mitre.org
Emily Anesta, Secretary eanesta <at> ieee.org
Delia Donatelli Delia .Donatelli <at> hanscom.af.mil
Tracy Phillips tcpbells <at> gmail.com
Edward S. Lowry eslowry <at> alum.mit.edu
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Usual Meeting Place:
The usual meeting place is at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, 244 Wood Street, Lexington MA. It is usually in the cafeteria. The entrance to the cafeteria is on the lower level to the left of the main entrance. From I-95 (Route 128) take Exit 30B on to Route 2A. Stay in right lane. Turn Right onto Mass. Ave. Follow Mass Ave. for ~0.4 miles. Turn left on to Wood Street and drive for one mile. Turn left at Wood Street gate. Lincoln Lab is also accessible via public transportation by taking the 62/76 bus from Alewife. Additional directions.
Past meetings:
24May10 Great Problems
Seminars:
Engaging First Year Engineering Students in Solving Global Issues
--
Kristin Wobe
22Mar10 Techno-fixes for climate change and
sustainable energy
- is there a catch? -- Miquel Munoz Cabre
22Feb10 Finding
Green Energy:
High Efficiency power Production from Fossil Fuels with
Carbon Capture --
Thomas Adams
19Oct09 The Mysterious
Mechanization of Meaning in the Google Brain -- Hal
Roberts
21Sep09 Flying the Unfriendly Skies - Reducing Weather-Related Flight Delays -- Richard A. DeLaura
27Apr09 Software Simplicity Suffocated -- Edward S. Lowry
23Feb09 Fighting Malware @ StopBadware.org: A report from the frontlines -- Maxim Weinstein
8 Dec08 Discarded Drugs as Environmental Contaminants -- Ilene S. Ruhoy
20Oct08 Voting Outside the Booth: The Promise of New Election Methods -- Benjamin Mako Hill
22 Sep08 Functional Vision for the Blind: The Boston Retinal Implant -- Shawn K. Kelly
19May08 Trends
in Clean Energy
for Massachusetts – Warren
Leon
28Ap08 Nanotechnol
ogy’s Next
Generation: Realizing the Promise— Avoiding the Perils -- Ahmed
Busnaina
28Jan08 The Innovation Tax:
Who Gets Sued
for Patent Infringement? -- Michael J. Meurer
5Nov07 Leveraging a
Research
Center of Excellence: Towards the Education of Engineering
Leaders
Michael B. Silevitch
17Oct07 Beauty &
Creativity in Science & Technology -- Paul H.
Carr
24Sep07 Innovation at the
Institutional
and the Personal Level: The DARPA Model and Connected Science --
William B. Bonvillian
15May07
Impact of Information Technology on Democratic Process
--
D. Sunshine Hillygus
20Mar07 Wheel Chair for the 21st Century -- Tom Doyon
27Feb07 Beyond the Paper Trail: Open-Audit Elections with Cryptography -- Ben Adida
24Jan07 Nanotechnology and Human Flourishing -- Ronald Sandler
5Oct06 Nuclear Renaissance -- Ian H. Hutchison
19Sep06 Student
Projects in
the Developing World:
Seeking Appropriate and Sustainable Solutions -- Rick Vaz
15May06 Offshore Wind
Resource Dynamics: The Challenges of Tapping Renewable
Power
--
Stephen R. Connors
18Apr06 Adopting new
Information Technology in the Workplace: Pitfalls and
Solutions -- Alan
Pelz-Sharpe
22Mar06 Nanotechnology: Where is it headed? How to get there? -- Henry I. Smith
21Feb06 Artificial Intelligence, Robots and the Problem of "Anticipatory Ethics" -- Brian M. O'Connell
17Jan06 Social
Implications of Computational
Intelligence:
Will We Better Understand the Mind, Art, and Religion? -- Leonid
I. Perlovsky
20Dec05 Toward Simpler
Software -- Your
Life Depends on it.
15Nov05 The Ethical Responsibilities of a Research University -- Theodore Postol
Updated 25May12 by Ed Lowry