If you haven't heard enough about Y2K...

[Doug Schuler]

CPSR WINTER NEWSLETTER FOCUSES ON Y2K

"Will my house be warm on January 1, 2000?" 
"Will I be able to fill my gas tank?" 
"Will we have an accidental war?" 
"Should I take all my cash out of the bank?" 

Those are the questions inundating CPSR members.  
The most obvious response CPSR can make is to dedicate 
an issue of the CPSR Newsletter to sating the thirst with 
our "take" on the issues.

A BREAKTHROUGH FOR CPSR PUBLICATIONS
The Special Winter 1999 Issue of the CPSR Newsletter will 
be our first-ever completely online. You can link to it 
from our home page or from: 

http://www.cpsr.org/publications/newsletters/issues/1999/Winter1999/.  

If you wish, we can email you a text version or mail you a transcript.  
Just let our office know at cpsr at cpsr.org. Guest editor: Marsha Woodbury.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND
¥ Arthur C. Clarke's chapter, "The Century Syndrome," 
from his novel, The Ghost from the Grand Banks.

¥ "A Perspective on Y2K," by Peter Neumann, who won 
the Norbert Weiner Award in 1997 for his work on 
documenting computer risks. He views Y2K as a serious 
concern and also as the tip of a much larger iceberg of 
computer risk.

¥ Gary Chapman, former Executive Director of CPSR, has 
two articles: "Now for Another Daunting Y2K Task: 
Educating America's Masses," and "A Moral Project for 
the the 21st Century: Stop Creating Better Weapons."

¥ Tony Ralston, professor emeritus of computer science 
and member of the CPSR advisory board, gives his 
impressions of the Y2K problem in "Y2K and Social 
Responsibility."

¥ Lenny Siegel's article "OOPs 2000: The Y2K Bug and the 
Threat of Catastrophic Chemical Releases."

¥ Khursch Ahmed, David Parnas, Barbara Simons, and 
Terry Winograd express their  nuclear weapons concerns

¥ Norman Kurland and others in the CPSR Y2K Working 
Group wrote the "How Y2K Will Impact the New York 
Times."

¥ Marsha Woodbury, Chair of CPSR, contributes the 
introduction, "Y2K: A Broad View."

¥ Y2K Humorfrom the Internet and Beyond," collected by 
friends and members.

¥ Chapter news, letters to the editor, a cartoon, and more.

Let's use Y2K to explore computer risks and our  
relationship to them.

Take a look at the Y2K newsletter!

> --
Susan Evoy   *   Deputy Director                     
http://www.cpsr.org/
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
P.O. Box 717  *  Palo Alto  *  CA *  94302         
Phone: (650) 322-3778    *   Fax: (650) 322-4748     *   
Email: evoy at cpsr.org   
Donations online: https://swww.igc.apc.org/cpsr/sec-membership-form.html




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