PUBLIC POLICY Committoo Addressos Controversial Subjects...and Other Topics This column begins with a look at some very controversial topics: virtual violence and virtual pornography. computer graphics and the issues of free speech. Next we'll look at the possibility of establishing a SIGGRAPH experts database for policy issues.The National Research Council (NRC) is working on the issue of intellectual property and how it relates to computers, sdence and technology;,we present a summary and comments with a reference to their report It is with great enthusiasm d~t I announce that SIGGRAPH Public Pol|cy Committee member My!es Losch will be providing regular updat.es on telecommunications, digital television sl~ndards and digital copy protection to readers of this column. For informazion on Myles please see Computer Gmph/cs 33(2) May 1999.pp. 53. Finally =here~ a descril:rdon of and reference to an ACM conference on usability which rn~/be of interest to computer gr-~hics researchers and practitioners. - - Bob E ~ Agents Accuse Infoseek Executive of Using the Web to Arrange Sexual Encounter with a Minor:' San Jose Mercury News, September 18, 1999) has given increased visibility to this issue. It is likely that people who do not work in computer graphics believe that either
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