Comments on: 40th Anniversary Blog Introduction http://socialissues.cs.toronto.edu/2013/01/40th-anniversary/ 40th Anniversary of "Social Issues in Computing", C.C. Gotlieb and Allan Borodin, 1973 Mon, 09 Mar 2015 00:30:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.7 By: Lennon Ruggier http://socialissues.cs.toronto.edu/2013/01/40th-anniversary/#comment-2843 Sun, 29 Sep 2013 12:07:31 +0000 http://socialissues.cs.toronto.edu/?p=43#comment-2843 Information systems and privacy have, perhaps, never been more relevant. I can’t believe this book had the foresight to tackle this topic so long ago.

]]> By: Michael Brodie http://socialissues.cs.toronto.edu/2013/01/40th-anniversary/#comment-162 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:54:26 +0000 http://socialissues.cs.toronto.edu/?p=43#comment-162 Kelly and his Social Issues in Computing class had a significant impact on me in the early 1970’s (I was in the first class) and on my career. Kelly expanded my Computer Science education with the broader vision that computing has and will have social and other impacts beyond mere computing. This led to my involvement in the 1970s with the Ontario Computer Ombudsman through more recent activities with the Web working with Tim Berners-Lee and the Web Science Trust that states in part “If we are to ensure the Web benefits the human race we must first do our best to understand it. The Web is the largest human information construct in history. The Web is transforming society. In order to understand what the Web is, engineer its future and ensure its social benefit we need a new interdisciplinary field that we call Web Science”. – This seems to be a modern restatement of the premises of Social Issues in Computing. Lessons from Kelly and the class contributed to my participation in US Academy of Sciences commissions on Privacy impacts of Counter-Terrorism and on US Healthcare Reform. In hindsight I see Kelly and the class behind my Personal Statement that includes “Whatever you are doing with computers, you are changing our world. Is it for the better?”

Thank you Kelly and Al for your wisdom and your foresight.
Michael Brodie

]]> By: Scott Ambler http://socialissues.cs.toronto.edu/2013/01/40th-anniversary/#comment-34 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:04:04 +0000 http://socialissues.cs.toronto.edu/?p=43#comment-34 While I was a undergrad student at U of T in Computer Science, the same years JD was there (JD, we should go for a coffee sometime soon!), I had the privilege of taking classes with both Dr. Gotlieb and Dr. Bordin. Dr. Gotlieb’s social issues class really did get me thinking outside of the computer science box as it were. I still think back to it from time to time. I look forward to reading this blog.

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