International Symposium on Technology and Society Program

David M. Hassenzahl, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

7:30 AM - 8:00 PM

Session 1 - From Calamity Mesa to Boyertown, Pennsylvania: Risk, radon, and regulation in Cold War America

Ellen Bales

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

10:20 AM - 10:30 AM

Session 1 - Rationalizing the home front: The Cold War, The Nevada test site, and radiation exposure

Leisl A. Carr, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

10:30 AM - 10:40 AM

Session 1 - Cold War technoscience in Nevada: The Nevada test site oral history project

Mary Palevsky, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

10:50 AM - 11:00 AM

Session 1 - Stockpile stewardship and the reliable replacement warhead: Socio-technical repair in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex

Benjamin Sims
Christopher Henke

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

11:00 AM - 11:10 AM

Session 2 - White paper on business/engineering ethics

Daniel Adams

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

11:10 AM - 11:20 AM

Session 2 - Lethality and autonomous robots: An Ethical stance

Ronald Arkin

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

11:20 AM - 11:30 AM

Session 2 - Managing the uncertainty of ethical codes

Lois Eveleth

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

11:30 AM - 11:40 AM

Session 2 - Neuroenhancement: An Ethical analysis

Anna Gawkowska

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

11:40 AM - 11:50 AM

Session 2 - Societal-consciousness in the computing curricula: A Time for serious introspection

Daniel Moix
Srini Ramaswamy

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

11:50 AM - 12:00 PM

Session 3 - Scenario-based analysis on the impacts of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles’ (PHEV) penetration into the transportation sector

Ye Li

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

1:48 PM - 1:55 PM

Session 4 - Block-effective dispersivity in heterogeneous media: Effects of porosity and distribution coefficient variability

Farang Botros

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

1:55 PM - 2:02 PM

Session 4 - Using uncertainty to guide characterization, closure, and long-term management of an underground nuclear test site

Jenny Chapman

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

2:02 PM - 2:09 PM

Session 4 - Use of numerical groundwater modeling to evaluate uncertainty in conceptual models of recharge and hydrostratigraphy

Karl Pohlmann

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

2:09 PM - 2:16 PM

Session 4 - Managing infrastructure vulnerability: An empirical study on the use of performance management systems that seek to reduce vulnerability of network industries

Bauke Steenhuisen

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

2:16 PM - 2:23 PM

Session 4 - How investigation committees stimulate and block learning from disasters

Haiko van der Voort
Hans de Bruijn

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

2:23 PM - 2:30 PM

Session 5 - Historical risk mitigation in commercial aircraft avionics as an indicator for intelligent vehicle systems

Ronald Frazzini

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

2:44 PM - 2:51 PM

Session 5 - In defense of ugliness: The role of technical presence in critical infrastructure system endurance

Karen Taylor, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Andrew Widlea Koehler

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

2:51 PM - 2:58 PM

Session 6 - The National environmental policy act (NEPA): Is it all that it can be? The Case for evaluating stigma effects

Dennis Bechtel, University of Nevada Las Vegas

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

3:20 PM - 3:30 PM

Session 6 - Using organizational structure to overcome uncertainties in technology

Karl Perusich

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

3:40 PM - 3:50 PM

Session 6 - Towards a political framework for socio-technical system design

Andrew Koehler
Karen Taylor, University of Alaska Fairbanks

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

3:50 PM - 4:00 PM

Session 6 - Innovative socio-technological evolutions: A Conceptual ecological dynamic between open-ended and closed-ended transformation?

Walter W. Zessner

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

4:10 PM - 4:20 PM

Session 7 - Evaluation of groundwater risk due to anthropogenic activities in a coastal plain of the Seto Inland Sea, Japan

Bin He

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

4:30 PM - 4:40 PM

Session 7 - “A New era”: The Limits of engineering expertise in a post-9/11 world

Sarah Pfatteicher

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

4:40 PM - 4:50 PM

Session 7 - A Comparative geographic analysis of the impact of scale on hazards and vulnerability in industrialized continental lands and small pacific islands

William J. Smith Jr., University of Nevada, Las Vegas

University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building

4:50 PM - 5:00 PM