Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!riddle From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.philosophy Subject: Re: the defense industry and the graduating engineer. Message-ID: <450@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 11:21:35 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.450 Posted: Tue Dec 11 11:21:35 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Dec-84 04:43:48 EST References: <140@hal.UUCP> Followup-To: net.politics Organization: U. of Tx. at Houston-in-the-Hills Lines: 33 Xref: watmath net.politics:6300 net.philosophy:1306 One place to start would be by writing to the following organizations: High Technology Professionals for Peace 639 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 316 Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 497-0605 HTPfP has both a political branch and an education branch, which runs, among other things, an employment agency for people seeking high-tech work in non-defense companies. They put out a newsletter called "Technology and Responsibility" -- articles in the current issue include titles like "Electronics and Computer Development: A Military History" and "Mideast Oil: A Question of National Security". Dues are $25/year. Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility 437 Mundel Way Los Altos, CA 94022 (This is the address of the Palo Alto chapter, which is all I have at hand at the moment.) CPSR does primarily educational work on connections between new computer technology and war, although there is growing interest in the group in other issues like computers in the workplace, solidarity work with Nicaragua, etc. Their quarterly newsletter usually contains rather personal articles on the ethical conflicts of working in computer R&D, as well. One CPSR member has compiled a bibliography on Computer Reliability and Nuclear War (available for $1 from Alan Borning at the U. of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 (CS Dept. FR-35)). --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle