Herman Tavani: Outstanding Service 2008 Kathrine Andrews Henderson, Computers & Society editor Office of the Auditor General, State of Arizona kathrinehenderson@azauditor.gov [Note. Katherine Henderson interviewed Herman Tavani for the September 2008 issue of Computers & Society. We chose to reprint that interview here rather than re-interview Dr. Tavani a short year later. Ed.] I sat down with SIGCAS 2008 Outstanding Service Award recipient, Dr. Herman Tavani a few weeks ago to chat about his long-standing relationship with SIGCAS. Our conversation started out with a simple question, how long have you been a member? Answer, 14 years. And with that, the stories, the friendships, and his hopes for SIGCAS started flowing. ---KAH To get things started, Herman explained how he discovered and subsequently became involved with SIGCAS. He spotted an issue of Computers and Society in a corporate library and the content drew him in. There were debates about property, privacy and questions about who ought to teach computer ethics. There was attention paid to important topics such as professional ethics, especially by Don Gotterbarn, as well as a place for Richard Epstein s futuristic scenarios, and there was a very interesting AI (Artificial intelligence) Watch column. In Herman
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