December 17, 2010 Gary Chapman, Internet Ethicist, Dies at 58 By KATIE HAFNER <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/katie_hafner/in...> Gary Chapman <http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/news/2010/lbj-school-public-affairs-long-time-facu...>, an educator, writer and widely recognized expert on the impact of high technology on society and public policy, died Tuesday while on a kayaking trip in Guatemala. He was 58. The cause was a heart attack, his family said. Further details were not immediately available. For seven years Mr. Chapman was the executive director of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility <http://cpsr.org/>, a nonprofit group concerned with the impact of technology on society. Under his guidance, it grew into an influential organization with international reach. In the 1980s, the group cast a particularly skeptical eye on the application of computers to decision-making in military systems and took a public stand against the Reagan administration's Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly known as Star Wars. Mr. Chapman was on the faculty of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. <http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/> He also founded and directed the school's 21st Century Project, which studies the social implications of information technology and telecommunications. Although not a computer scientist himself, and neither a champion nor a foe of technology per se, Mr. Chapman gave voice to many leaders in the field who struggled with the ethical implications of new technology. [...] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/technology/18chapman.html