ALUMNI
SPEAKER
SERIES
Don’t
Look
Up!
Understanding
Difficult
Technological
Truths
Artificial intelligence will take your job! Genetic engineering will accelerate the loss of biodiversity! The modern smart-city is a privacy disaster! Killer robots and technological progress are out of control! Is the techno-apocalypse upon us? Should we run for the exit? Or are there more nuanced ways to understand the complex interaction between technology and society and values?
The Centre for Society, Technology and Values (CSTV) is a unique University of Waterloo interdisciplinary centre that explores how we can answer these questions and more, in a series of Society, Technology and Values (STV) courses. As a core part of the Faculty of Engineering, STV courses are helping our engineering students come to grips with many of the major questions we face in a sophisticated technological society. You may have taken one of the STV courses when you were an engineering student but technological change is fast-paced and ever-evolving.
Attend this virtual session with a panel of STV professors Scott Campbell and Cameron Shelley, with the Director of the Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement, Paul Heidebrecht. In this session of the Alumni Speaker Series, these experts will discuss current social and political issues associated with technological change and what issues engineers may be faced with in the future.
This session was recorded - watch it here:
Panel of Speakers:
BMath 1999, Computer Science
Instructor and Director
Centre for Society, Technology and Values (CSTV)
University of Waterloo
Biography:
Scott
M.
Campbell
is
the
director
of
the
Centre
for
Society,
Technology
and
Values,
in
the
Department
of
Systems
Design
Engineering
at
the
University
of
Waterloo.
He
began
teaching
Society,
Technolgy
and
Values
(STV)
courses
in
2007,
shortly
after
completing
his
PhD dissertation
about
the
history
of
computer
science
at
the
University
of
Toronto
(2006).
He
holds
a
BMath
degree
in
computer
science from
the
University
of
Waterloo
(1999),
and
as
an
undergraduate
did
take
all
three
of
the
available
STV
courses
in
the
late
1990s.
Connect
with
Scott
Campbell.
BASc 1994, Mechanical Engineering
Director
Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement
Conrad Grebel University College
University of Waterloo
Biography:
Paul Heidebrecht is the inaugural director of the Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement, and teaches courses in peace and conflict studies at Conrad Grebel University College and the University of Waterloo. Prior to his current role, he spent five years in Ottawa leading the efforts of Mennonite Central Committee to shape Canadian government policies on behalf of program partners in the areas of relief, development, and peacebuilding. He has also served overseas with the same organization as a peacebuilder in Nigeria and an appropriate technology engineer in Bangladesh, and has seven years of experience as a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario. In addition to a BASc in mechanical engineering from the University of Waterloo (class of 1994), he holds an MA in theology and ethics from AMBS and a PhD in religious studies from Marquette University.
Connect with Paul Heidebrecht on LinkedIn.
MMath 1992, Computer Science; MA 1995, Philosphy; PhD 1999, Philosopy
Instructor
Centre for Society, Technology and Values (CSTV)
University of Waterloo
Biography:
Cameron
Shelley
is
a
lecturer
with
the
Centre
for
Society,
Technology
and
Values
at
the
University
of
Waterloo. There,
he
teaches
courses
on
design
and
society,
artificial
intelligence
and
society,
biotechnology
and
society,
as
well
as
technology,
society
and
the
modern
city.
His
research
interests
include
the
nature
and
conduct
of
fairness
in
technological
design.
He
holds
an
MA
and
PhD in
philosophy
as
well
as
an
MMath degree
in
computer
science,
both
from
the
University
of
Waterloo.
Connect
with
Cameron
Shelley
on
LinkedIn.
Please note: This session will be recorded with permission of the speakers and moderator. The recording will be posted to view on the Alumni Speaker Playlist on the Waterloo Engineering YouTube Channel after the live session. Viewers do not have permission to record the session.