" Ethical Aspects in New and Emerging Technologies "
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AUG 16, 2011
 
 Bucharest Conference in Applied Ethics 2010, 'Legislating Ethics' -- Raluca Petrescu (University of Bucharest) et alii
 
 
Keynote Speakers

David COLES

Newcastle University

 

Ion VEZEANU

University of Grenoble 2

 
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES & GAMES
 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES & GAMES
Privacy issues; piracy and free access to knowledge; digital divide; Information Society and public participation; Informational Capitalism vs. Info-Communism; aesthetic ownership in games; on-line pornography and regulating the Internet; the new Internet security enhancements.
MEDICINE & PHARMACEUTICS
 MEDICINE & PHARMACEUTICS
BioBanks and Human Genetic Information Security; ethical aspects of Cell Therapies; new drugs research ethical evaluation.
ROBOTICS & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
 ROBOTICS & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The proliferation of robots in industries and the social impact on labour; the proliferation of robots in home environments; robots, humans and moral agency; robot enhanced reality; interconnected sexual robots.
BIOTECHNOLOGIES & ARTIFICIAL LIFE
 BIOTECHNOLOGIES & ARTIFICIAL LIFE
Bioengineered foods, food safety and moral concerns; seeds and food labelling; bio-terrorism and moral use of biotechnologies; artificial life and moral agency.
NANOTECHNOLOGIES
 NANOTECHNOLOGIES
Military vs. civil research and usage of nanotechnologies; human enhancement; privacy and freedom in ICT applications of nanotechnologies; ethical responsibilities in nanotechnology research.