ODU to Host International Conference on Computer Ethics
May 23, 2019
Old Dominion University will host this year's Computer Ethics - Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE) conference May 28 to 30 at the Webb University Center.
The international conference has played a significant role in defining the field since its first event in 1997. CEPE is held every two years and is organized by INSEIT (the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology). Also collaborating in this year's event are the ODU Center for Cybersecurity Education and Research; the Virginia Cyber Alliance, and the Ionian University Research Team, IHRC (Information: History, Regulation and Culture).
The conference's theme will be "Risk and Cybersecurity." Keynote speakers will include Deborah G. Johnson (University of Virginia), who is best known for her work on computer ethics and engineering ethics, and Anna Lauren Hoffmann (University of Washington), a scholar and writer who works at the intersections of data, technology, culture and ethics.
Among the topics to be covered:
- Ethics for cybersecurity professionals
- Just-war theory and cyber-conflict
- AI and risk
- Information warfare
- "Fake news," deepfakes, and the information apocalypse
- Risks to democracy and democratic processes
- Privacy and users' rights
- Algorithmic bias and algorithmic ethics
- Information and data ethics
- Risk online
- Cyber-harassment
- Race, gender, sexuality and risk in digital environments
- Risk to health and health care
- Online radicalization
- Group identity and mobilization in digital environments
- Self-driving vehicles
- Ethics of hacking and of hacking back
- Cyber risk and cyber-securitization in smart cities and smart homes; the internet of things; military robots; heath-care robots; domestic robots, sex robots, and other robots; and other topics related to risk, cybersecurity, securitization and internet studies.
Proceedings will be published in the ODU Digital Commons. All papers will be assigned a DOI and available in open-access format. Submissions for proceedings should be sent to dwittkow@odu.edu before July 1.
For more information about the conference, go to this link.
