Michael Quinn
Michael Quinn
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It?s inaccurate to say the staff is growing while the population is remaining the same.
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In the hospitality industry, you are surrounded by alcohol all the time, ... There is the social aspect to it ? the winding down after a service, working irregular hours, working under high pressure ? and the culture of drinking is enormous in the UK, with an explosion of binge drinking and of young women drinking.
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Any specific questions as to the pending litigation we probably won't be able to answer.
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This is the only place that is associated with James Madison. There is no other memorial to James Madison on the capitol mall.
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He's an exemplary figure for all Americans. He's mentioned often at school.
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The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of the topics we discuss relate to ethical challenges that transcend the computer world.
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I went to a Jesuit school as an undergraduate, and that helped me gain a deep appreciation for philosophy. The general mentality of most engineers is that if we can invent something, we should. It's not that simple. At Heathrow airport they are debating the use of new X-ray technology that electronically disrobes a person and shows their naked image. Government power is something that's easy to abuse, and many people are raising questions about invasion of privacy.
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It's worth the time and money it takes if you are totally committed to the work you're doing.
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Some people date the first debates about information technology and ethics to the 1950s, but the field really exploded in the 1990s.
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I share the frustrations of everyone who was laid off. It was the last thing we wanted to do, but the money isn't there yet.
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It's just been a matter of finding where the pieces went, like putting a puzzle together.
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Humans have always had a complex relationship with technology. Automobiles, for instance, changed the nature of life in America, where we live, how we work, what we can do with our leisure time. But they have also brought us traffic jams and contributed to global warming. The impact of information technology may be equally profound, and these are things we need to think about and study.
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What's happening to energy stocks is probably not surprising given the run they've had over the last several weeks.
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We're not trying to tell students what they should think or what the right answers are, because many of these topics are very complex, they change rapidly and do not offer easy solutions. But we do hope people who take courses such as this will grow a little, mature their judgments and reflect more carefully on some important issues.