Happy New Year From The Neely Center!
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We would like to share with you our latest updates.
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665 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90089
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Next Generation Ethics: Where Do We Stand
features distinguished speakers from industry, government, academia and journalism. You will have an opportunity to meet and listen to the Executive Director of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission, USC VP of Professionalism and Ethics, Deans of the Viterbi, Price, Marshall and Keck schools of USC, industry leaders from the financial industry, experts on the ethics of immersive technologies, experts on the #MeToo movement, journalist views on technology impacts of changing the human mind, experts on ethical issues surrounding medical advancements, the director of the USC
Media Institute for Social Change
, and many others.
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Breakfast, Lunch and coffee breaks will be served.
Spacing is limited. To register, please e-mail
decide@usc.edu
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This years conference committee comprises:
Ali Abbas
,
Director, Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making.
Elizabeth Fife
, Associate Professor, Technical Communication, Viterbi School of Engineering.
Josh Hyatt
,
Executive Director, Integrated Risk Management for Keck School of Medicine
.
Bhaskar Krishnamachari
,
Professor, Viterbi School of Engineering.
Marion Philadelphia
, Chair, Department of Business Communication, Marshall School of Business
Frank Zerunyan
, Professor of the Practice of Governance, Sol Price School of Public Policy.
Click
here
for more information.
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Neely Center Director,
Ali Abbas
met with
Vint Cerf
, VP of Google and one of the "fathers of the internet" to discuss
his views on the ethics of various technology topics such as data and privacy, net neutrality, public policy, self-driving cars, genetic codes, and personal reflections on the future.
Click
here
to watch the interview.
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Technology has evolved exponentially, and social norms have changed significantly. Do the basic distinctions by which we analyze ethical dilemmas still apply? Is “Do no harm” suitable as a guidance for today’s world?
Neely Center Director,
Ali Abbas
, met with
Ron Howard
, Professor at Stanford University and Director of Decisions and Ethics center, as well
Max Senges
, Google’s Lead R&D contact for Partnerships and Internet Governance
to scribe the initial phases of a Hippocratic Oath for Technologists.
To view and sign up for the oath click
here.
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Left to Right: Ronald Howard (Professor, Stanford University), Peter Norvig (Director of Research, Google), Ali Abbas ( Neely Center Director and Professor at USC), and Max Senges (
Google’s Lead R&D contact for Partnerships and Internet Governance
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We are pleased to announce our upcoming book
Next Generation Ethics,
by
Cambridge University Press
Next Generation Ethics
features distinguished authors from industry and academia who share their views on the important ethical issues that they encounter today or that we as a society may encounter in the future.
The book is intended for a general audience, and it can be used by both specialists in the field of ethics or by professionals in a variety of industries who wish to better understand the sensitivities regarding some of the ethical issues that they may encounter in their professions.
Our distinguished authors are below.
To view the table of contents,
click
here
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Authors of
Next Generation Ethics
book.
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We are pleased to announce that we have received an overwhelming number of submissions to the 2019 Neely Center Ethics Competition from students across campus. As future leaders and professionals, we hope their topics will raise awareness in the community and recognize that ethics plays a major role in the every aspect of our lives.
Click the
picture
below to see a sample of topics received.
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The picture below shows the winners of last year's student competition.
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Left to right: Ali Abbas, Fiona Sequeira 2nd Place, Jacqueline Orr 1st Place, Rashi Chaudhary 3rd Place, Kermit Franklin 1st Place and David Newman 2nd Place,
Katharine Harrington
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Please send us your grant proposals at:
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Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making|University of Southern California |
213-821-3608 | | Decide@usc.edu | decide.usc.edu
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