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Deborah G. Johnson
Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics

Ethics and Technology: Where Do They Meet?
March 18, 2005
Fairfax, VA


On the web

The University of Virginia serves over one million people every year through more than 400 public service and outreach programs. For more information about outreach at UVa, visit http://www.virginia.edu/outreachvirginia/, an interactive web-based listing of public service programs searchable by region, interest, audience, or type of program.
Some programs you can find in OutreachVirginia database include the following:

High School Engineering Visitation Weekend
A weekend program designed to give female high school juniors and seniors exposure to engineering.

Systems Engineering Executive Master’s Program
The School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Continuing and Professional Studies have developed a partnership to bring the Systems Engineering Executive Master’s Program to the Northern Virginia area in a weekend format.

Technology Resource Center
The Technology Resource Center offers evaluations of students with special computer needs, training for parents, school personnel, staff and University students, and computer enrichment classes for elementary and middle school children.

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On the shelf

Computer Ethics, Prentice Hall; 3nd edition (December 15, 2000)

Ethical Issues in Engineering, Prentice Hall; (October 1, 1990)

Computers, Ethics, and Social Values, Prentice Hall; 2 edition (October 1, 2004)

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About the speaker

Professor Johnson came to the University of Virginia in the fall of 2001 after three years at Georgia Tech and 20 years at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  She is the author/editor of four books and over 40 published papers. Among the four books is the popular textbook Computer Ethics, which is now in its third edition and has been translated into Spanish and will soon be published in Japanese.  She co-edits the journal Ethics and Information Technology, published by Kluwer, and also co-edits a book series on Women, Gender, and Technology with S. Rosser and M.F. Fox for University of Illinois Press. Active in professional organizations, Professor Johnson recently completed a term as president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology and took on the presidency of a new professional society, the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT).

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