CS181: Computers, Ethics, and Public Policy
Miniconference Schedule
June 1-2, 2011

Session 1. Wednesday, June 1, 9:00-10:00, Gates 104
Anonymity on the Internet
  Georgia Andrews, Jeff Gilbert, Michael Repper, Graham Roth, Jeff Wear
Privacy and social networks
  Gary Lee, Pamela Martinez, Barr Moses, Nate Stockham
The culture of “free”
  Elliot Conte, Henry Engelland-Gay, Evan McDonald, Rebecca Poulson, Elina Robeva
WikiLeaks and whistleblowing
  Alan Joyce, Ethan Lozano, Robert Schiemann, Adam Ting, Dominique Yahyavi

Session 2. Wednesday, June 1, 10:00-11:00, Gates 104
Digital currencies
  Derek Czajka, Joe Kelley, Tola Lawal, Jasmine Mann
Licensure and other regulatory strategies to improve software quality
  Bryan Huh, Mike Lee, Trevor Metoxen, Max Shulaker, Tenzin Topden
Reliability of the cloud
  Jonathan Candelario, Robert Hintz, Jabari Nyomba
The Google Books project
  MK Li, Maxine Lim, Charles Naut, Michael White

Session 3. Wednesday, June 1, 11:00-12:00, Gates 104
Downloading consciousness
  Jordan Inafuku, Katie Lampert, Brad Lawson, Shaun Stehly, Alex Vaccaro
NFC chips
  Levirt Griffin, Omosola Odetunde, Nadja Rhodes
Privacy and GPS
  Elaine Chen, Stephanie Ogonor, Matthew Seal, Bridget Vuong
The impact of tablet-like devices on information availability
  Shishi Chen, Francesco Georg, Alex Loewi

Session 4. Wednesday, June 1, 1:15-2:15, Gates 104
iMonopoly: The closed-app store market share game
  Brianna Griffin, Will Guyman, Daniel Johnston, Amar Kak
Entrepreneurship at Stanford
  Katherine Chen, Kamil Dada, Michael Duong, Joel Jean
Modern computing and personal genotyping: The ethics of genomics
  Maverick Chea, Kristian Gampong, Paul Lee, Brian O’Connor, Keebuhm Park
Stanford privacy policy
  Shubuka Mainsah, Ethan Nash, Michael Ortiz, Devon White

Session 5. Wednesday, June 1, 2:15-3:15, Gates 104
Press freedom for bloggers
  Eric Conner, Zach Galant, Jeremy Keeshin
Technological singularity
  Leland Farmer, Joe Kenahan, Tom Medina, Jonathan Tilley, Dawson Zhou
Journalism in the Digital Age
  Danny Chrichton, Ben Christel, Alex Valderrama, Aaditya Shidham, Jeremy Karmel
Smart phones and economic development
  Sam Garrett, Ben Goldsmith, Vivian Nguyen, Hee Su Roh, Eunmo Yang

Session 6. Wednesday, June 1, 3:15-4:00, Gates 104
The psychology of trust on the Internet
  Kat Busch, Caitlin Colgrove, Frank Li, Nora Willett, Remington Wong
Computers making decisions for humans
  Kseniya Charova, Lucas Garron, Cameron Schaeffer
Virtual worlds
  Rex Kirshner, Sameep Mehrotra, Lucas Prokopiak, Jack Reidy, Taylor Savage

Session 7. Thursday, June 2, 9:00-10:00, Gates 104
Code and the regulation of the Internet
  Christophe Chong, Calvin Fernandez, Eli Hart, Jonathan Kuo, Dilli Paudel
Free expression vs. maintaining social cohesion
  Conrad Chan, Anthony Dao, Justin Hou, Tony Jin, Calvin Tuong
Freedom of information: China
  Suzanne Aldrich, Marty Hu, Albert Lai, Khanh Le, Chanya Punyakumpol
Interaction between technology and Chinese communism
  Victoria Kwong, Leon Lin, Chloe Yeung, Lance Zhao

Session 8. Thursday, June 2, 10:00-11:00, Gates 104
Bitcoins
  Giancarlo Daniele, Tunmise Olayinka, Azmaan Onies
Technological trends in Latin America and their social and economic impact
  Justin Heermann, Alvin Heng, Chamal Samaranayake, Lilly Sath
Solving the technology brain-drain epidemic in the Asia-Pacific region
  Joseph Harmon, Jordan Hall, Spencer King, Kristen Leach, Timothy Tam
Micropayments and the Net
  James Fosco, Stacy Kaufman, Dave Luciano, Abhinav Ramani, Long Zou

Session 9. Thursday, June 2, 11:00-12:00, 380-381T
ALADDIN
  Chanh Nguyen, Taesung Park, Abigail Soong, Kyle Tsai, Wyles Vance
Technology and its impact on the environment
  David Johnson, Jackie Liao, Cameron Mansson-Perrone, Jared Poelman, Claudia Roberts, Jacob Speidel
The limitations of US infrastructure
  Ntokozo Bhembe, Charlie Fang, Julian Malinski, James Painter, Spencer Stamats
Freedom of digital information in the Middle East
  Riddhi Mittal, Sami Shad, Suril Shah, Jarred Simmer, Alex Trytko

Session 10. Thursday, June 2, 1:15-2:15, 380-381T
Hacktivism
  Jonathan Potter, Ben Roth, Jesse Ruder
Hiring programmers in light of US immigration law
  Vivek Athalye, Carl Case, Andrew Duchi, Daniel Posch, Jordan Potter
Multinational software development
  Juan Batiz-Benet, Xuwen Cao, Yin Yin Wu
Net neutrality
  Tatiana Iskandar, Lee Semien, Dan Vinegrad

Session 11. Thursday, June 2, 2:15-3:15, 380-381T
Leeroy Jenkins: Free speech in online video games
  Rob Blount, Andrea Chavez, Emilio Lopez, Corey Murphey, Chris Torres
Extinct: Homo sapiens
  Paul Chen, Adriana Diakite, Rachel Fenichel, Nathan Hall-Snyder, Julia Neidert
Economies of virtual worlds
  Matthew Chun-Lum, Tiphanie Gammon, Alexander Huang, Junichi Tsutsui
“Worse is Better” considered harmful
  John Hiesey, Keith Schwarz