* REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: CFP98 * (must be received by August 15)

From: Mark Lemley <MLEMLEY[_at_]mail.law.utexas.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 15:00:41 -0500

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Mark Lemley, CFP 98 Chair]
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• REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: CFP98 *

(proposals must be received by August 15,1997 to be considered)

COMPUTERS, FREEDOM, AND PRIVACY CONFERENCE February 18-20, 1998 * Hyatt Regency Austin at Town Lake * Austin, TX

The Eighth Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP98) is scheduled for Wednesday February 18 to Friday February 20, 1998 in Austin, Texas, at the Hyatt Regency Austin Hotel on Town Lake.

The Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conferences serve as an internationally recognized forum and gathering place for the key members of the technical, government, hacker, legal, security and journalistic communities to address cutting edge technical, business, legal and cultural issues.

Topics and speakers from prior years' CFP conferences can be found at the CFP web site, http://www.cfp.org.

For the 1998 CFP conference, The 1998 Program Committee (members listed below) is particularly interested in receiving proposals that deal with:

1. emerging issues relating to privacy and data ownership, such as the use of infrared tracking of supermarket shopping carts to monitor search and purchasing patterns of customers; developments with medical databases, library filtering, GPS tracking systems, etc.
2. controversial issues;
3. conflict, e.g., debates where presenters have sharply defined and differing points of view, technolibertarian vs. anti-tech "humanist; " or have different training/disciplines, e.g., cyberactivists on virtual communities vs. sociologist/philosopher/writer discussing nature of the "physical world."
4. innovative and alterantive formats such as moot courts, case studies, reverse role playing, etc., to enliven some of CFP's recurring topics that are increasingly found at other conferences.

The 1998 Program Committee strongly encourages proposals that involve one or two speakers, as well as panel presentations. A single or two person presentation is often better focused than a panel and it is the goal of The 1998 Program Committee to provide a mix of panels and single/dual speaker presentations during the General Session. Ideally, panels will be limited to no more than four persons whose views are not duplicative of each other.

In addition to the two and one-half days of General Session, which starts the afternoon of Wednesday February 18, CFP98 will offer tutorials. Five or six three hour tutorial sessions will be offered on the morning of Wednesday February 18. CFP98 will also continue the practice of breakout topic presentations during the Thursday and Friday luncheons. The Program Committee is seeing proposals for both tutorials and the luncheon sessions.

It is the goal of the CFP98 Program Committee to be able to offer some travel money to speakers; however the amount or allocation of travel funds depends heavily on success in obtaining sponsors, which will not be known until early September.

The CFP98 Program Committee will meet the week of August 18 to finalize selection of proposals; consequently all proposals must be received * by August 15, 1997 * to assure consideration by the Program Committee. Please follow the submission guidelines below.

• CFP98 PROPOSAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES *

CFP98 is being organized and hosted this February under the auspices of The University of Texas School of Law. Mark Lemley, Professor at The Law School, serves as Chair of the Program Committee. He may be reached by e-mail at: mlemley[_at_]mail.law.utexas.edu

Proposals should include the following information.

1. Presentation Topic Title:
2. Presentation Type:

        [ ] General Session [ ] Luncheon [ ] Tutorial

3) Proposed Length of Presentation*

• Presentations during the General Session can range from .5 to 1.5 hours. Breakout luncheon presentations are 1.0 hr. Tutorial presentations run 3.0 hrs. 4) Name(s) of Speaker(s), plus BRIEF background description about each speaker. For presentations with more than one speaker, please indicate and provide contact information for the primary panel coordinator/moderator/chair. 5) A one to two paragraph description of the Topic and Format, suitable for conference brochure and press release. 6) Additional information regarding topic, format (including special presentation or A/V needs), possible but not yet confirmed speakers, or speaker substitutes -- or any other information that you think would be useful to The Program Committee in evaluating your proposal.

For more information on the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conferences, please visit our Web page at: http://www.cfp.org.

Proposals should be sent as soon as possible to CFP98 Program Chair Mark Lemley at: mlemley[_at_]mail.law.utexas.edu

or by mail to:

Mark Lemley
The University of Texas School of Law
727 East 26th Street
Austin, TX 78705

*Proposals must be received no later than August 15, 1997 *

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CFP98 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mark A. Lemley, CHAIR
Assistant Professor of Law
The University of Texas School of Law

Matt Blaze
Senior Research Scientist
AT&T Bell Research

Edward A. Cavazos
Senior Vice President, General Counsel
Interliant, Inc.

Gary B. Chapman
Director, The 21st Century Project
LBJ School of Public Affairs
The University of Texas at Austin

David Chaum
DigiCash bv
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Dave Del Torto
Pretty Good Privacy, Inc.

Michael Esposito
The University of Texas School of Law

1. Michael Froomkin Associate Professor of Law University of Miami School of Law

Katie Hafner
Newsweek Technology Correspondent
Newsweek Magazine

Donna L. Hoffman
Owen Graduate School of Management
Vanderbilt University

Deborah Hurley
Director, Information Infrastructure Project John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University

Bruce R. Koball
Technical Consultant

Jon Lebkowsky
President, EFF-Austin

Teresa Peters
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development Paris, France

Ned Ramage
The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center

Shabbir J. Safdar
The Voters Telecommunications Watch

Jonah Seiger
Communications Director
Center for Democracy and Technology

Sharon Strover
Director, Texas Telecommunications Policy Institute The University of Texas at Austin

Peter Toren
United States Department of Justice Received on Wed Jul 16 1997 - 20:02:25 GMT