University of PortsmouthRAE analysis |
The formation of CCSR coincided with the launch of the ETHICOMP conference series in 1995. Professor Bynum and Professor Rogerson are the founders and joint directors. The purpose of this series is to provide an inclusive European forum for discussing the ethical and social issues associated with the development and application of ICT. Conferences are held every 18 months. There have been four conferences to date ETHICOMP 95 (De Montfort University, UK), ETHICOMP 96 (University of Salamanca, Spain), ETHICOMP 98 (Erasmus University, The Netherlands) and ETHICOMP 99 (LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy). Delegates and speakers from all continents have attended. Of the 231 papers presented at the 4 conferences 69% had European authors or co-authors representing Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden and UK. ETHICOMP 2001 will be held at Technical University of Gdansk, Poland. The series has succeeded in creating a critical mass of scholars in Europe concerned with the ethical issues of ICT. Many important papers have come from this series. Indeed Professor Bynum and Professor Rogerson have edited special ETHICOMP editions of refereed academic journals including; Business Ethics: a European Review, Ethics and Information Technology, Metaphilosophy, Science and Engineering Ethics , the Australian Journal of Information Systems, and the Journal of Business Ethics. The ETHICOMP name has become recognised and respected in the field of computer ethics and has led to it being registered as a trademark by De Montfort University to control its use and ensure ongoing integrity.
MSc(IT)
Glasgow University is an institution deeply involved in the development of theory and practice in the arena of digital libraries and archives. HATII has close collaborative arrangements with the Department of Computing Science and four of HATII's courses are taken by significant numbers of students on the Computing Science run Master's in Information Technology (Cultural and Heritage Computing, Digitisation, Text Processing, and a new course in Multimedia). Ross has supervised five MSc(IT) theses during the past two years; one of these, on Virtual Reality, was subsequently published in Internet Archaeology (Terras, 2000).