About the Staff at the Research Center on Computing & Society
Terrell Ward Bynum,
Director
TERRELL WARD BYNUM is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University, Director of the Research Center on Computing and Society there, and Visiting Professor at De Montfort University in Leicester, England. He is a lifetime member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, Past Chair of the Committee on Professional Ethics of the Association for Computing Machinery, and Past Chair of the Committee on Philosophy and Computers of the American Philosophical Association. In 1991, Professor Bynum served as co-Chair of the National Conference on Computing and Human Values funded by the National Science Foundation; and in 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2001 he was co-Chair of ETHICOMP95, ETHICOMP96, ETHICOMP98, ETHICOMP99, and ETHICOMP2001 which were international information ethics conferences held respectively in Leicester, England; Madrid, Spain; Rotterdam, Holland; Rome, Italy; and Gdansk, Poland. He was co-Chair of ETHICOMP2002 held in Lisbon, Portugal in autumn 2002.
Professor Bynum’s academic degrees include a Ph.D. (CUNY), M.Phil. (CUNY), M.A. (Princeton), B.A. (U. of Delaware) – all in Philosophy – and a B.S. (U. of Delaware) in Chemistry. He has been a Fulbright Fellow (U. of Bristol, England), Danforth Fellow (Princeton), Woodrow Wilson Fellow (Princeton), Mellon Fellow (CUNY), and Dartmouth Fellow (Dartmouth College).
Dr. Bynum has conducted workshops, given speeches and addresses, produced and hosted video programs, and published articles on computing and human values. His other publications include books, monographs, articles and reviews in logic, psychology, history of philosophy, artificial intelligence and education. For twenty-five years Dr. Bynum was Editor-in-Chief of Metaphilosophy, an international scholarly journal published by Basil Blackwell of Oxford, England. Dr. Bynum also edited Computers and Ethics, Blackwell, 1985; and co-edited Computer Ethics and Professional Responsibility, published by Blackwell in 2002.
Richard Volkman,
Associate Director
RICHARD VOLKMAN is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University and Research Associate of the Research Center on Computing and Society.
In 1998, Dr. Volkman completed his dissertation, Why be Moral? The Ethical Individualist Response to Alienation from Morality, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In that work, he defends the claim that an individual’s pursuit of the good life is a sufficient mechanism for generating moral duties. Dr. Volkman’s interests in information technology stem from his desire to understand how and to what extent the Internet and other information technologies impact our ability to make judgements about the good life. This is the subject of his forthcoming paper presentation at the Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry this summer. He presented “Software Ownership and Natural Rights” at Ethicomp 99.
Dr. Volkman’s interests extend beyond the philosophical analysis of technology, into the medium’s actual use both in the undergraduate curriculum and in research. He serves as Interim Webmaster at the RCCS. He has authored and produced a multimedia CD-ROM on the ethics of abortion as a supplement to his usual text. He is also working on a series of computer animations to illustrate complex philosophical ideas and visions of the universe. Subjects include: “Determinism,” “Form and Matter,” “The Will to Power,” and “Mind and Technology.”
Krystyna Górniak-Kocikowska,
Senior Research Associate
KRYSTYNA GÓRNIAK-KOCIKOWSKA is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University, Director of the Religious Studies Program at the University, as well as a Senior Research Associate in the Research Center on Computing & Society. She is a member of the Polish Philosophical Society, the American Philosophical Association, the American Academy of Religion (Co-Chair of the Group on Religion in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR, 1996 – 1999), the Karl Jaspers Society of North America, the International Hegel Society, the European Business Ethics Network, and the International Society for the Study of European Ideas.
Dr. Górniak-Kocikowska’s academic degrees include an M.A. in German Philology (1973) and a Ph. D. in Philosophy (1981) from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland; as well as an M.A. in Religious Studies (1992) from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa, USA. She has served on the faculty of Adam Mickiewicz University; the International Centre for Postgraduate Studies in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia; La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA, USA; the University of Rhode Island in Kingston; and Southern Connecticut State University.
Frances S. Grodzinsky,
Visiting Scholar
FRANCES S. GRODZINSKY is a Professor of Computer Science and Information Technology at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut where she has been teaching for seventeen years. She has been involved in the field of Computer Ethics since 1991. In 1992, 1994 and 2000, Dr. Grodzinsky participated in Ethics Workshops sponsored by the National Science Foundation. She has given numerous workshops and presentations at SIGCSE, CEPE, ETHICOMP, APPE and ISTAS. Her areas of research include virtue ethics and the concept of moral obligation, identity and community, equity of access, and cyberstalking. She was one of the first to advocate for a reexamination of virtue ethics as an approach to teaching computer ethics.
Dr. Grodzinsky sits on the board of the Hersher Institute of Ethics at Sacred Heart University where she has been instrumental in fostering ethics across the curriculum. To this end, she and a colleague offer faculty workshops each May to a juried group of colleagues interested in implementing ethics modules in their courses. In the Computer Science/Information Technology department, Dr. Grodzinsky has implemented a computer ethics course as a required course for all majors. See http://compsci.sacredheart.edu/grodzinsky for a list of all publications, presentations and workshops. Her commitment to equity of access was realized in 1994 when she received a grant from the National Science Foundation to create an Adaptive Technology Laboratory at Sacred Heart University.
Margaret E. Tehan,
Webmaster
MARGARET E. TEHAN is a student of Fine Art at Southern CT State University with a dual concentration of Printmaking and Graphic Design. She is the president of Margaret’s Folly, an award-winning Web site design firm in Waterbury, CT. She’s a member of the faculty at the Music and Arts Center for Humanity, teaching Web site design to at-risk youth in the Greater Bridgeport area. Additionally, Ms. Tehan is the recipient of an Urban Artists Initiative grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and Hartford, Connecticut’s Institute for Community Research.
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