{"title":"Technological development and compulsory patent licensing","authors":"Daniel R Mcglynn","doi":"10.1109/CSIT.1974.6498769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSIT.1974.6498769","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most pressing areas concerning the social implications of technology is the interplay between patent rights, anti-trust laws, compulsory licensing and technological develpment. Rapid legal changes are ocurring on a number of fronts concerned with technology and social need, and it is increasingly difficult to maintain a perspective both of the fundamental issues under consideration and the present state of law and practice in the United States.","PeriodicalId":231350,"journal":{"name":"IEEE CSIT Newsletter","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114721572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EJC-two views","authors":"J. Alden","doi":"10.1109/CSIT.1974.6498767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSIT.1974.6498767","url":null,"abstract":"In a brief article in the April 1 ATP Newsletter discussing his recent meeting with the Engineering Manpower Commission, Arthur Obermayer reached some unflattering conclusions about the interests of the Commission and the motives of its members on the basis of a single brief meeting during which most of the talking was actually done by himself and the other four invited speakers.","PeriodicalId":231350,"journal":{"name":"IEEE CSIT Newsletter","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122353588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The dilemma of the professional engineer employed in industry","authors":"Walter L. Eiden","doi":"10.1109/CSIT.1974.6498771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSIT.1974.6498771","url":null,"abstract":"There must be an ethical responsibility1 in the practice of Professional Engineering, supplementing corporate profit objectives, if the public is to be afforded safety protection. The Code of Ethics2 sets forth basic principles of conduct which the Engineer agrees to practice by. Each engineer gauges his particular practice situation against this standard. He faces the possibility of being challenged if he deviates.","PeriodicalId":231350,"journal":{"name":"IEEE CSIT Newsletter","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114548897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EMB sessions at WESCON","authors":"M. Guberek","doi":"10.1109/CSIT.1973.6498756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSIT.1973.6498756","url":null,"abstract":"Organized by Michael Miller — executive director of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation — this session turned out to be the most controversial of the four meetings on Medical Electronics presented at WESCON 73. The roles of Government and the private sector in standard setting were discussed by Dr. H. Ley and the methodology for the standard setting was outlined by FDA spokesman Bob Cangelosi. A look at standards from industry's point of view was introduced by Mort Levin from Hewlett-Packard. To wrap up, Dr. Miller made his presentation on the legal implications of the new standards to become effective once Senate Bill S 2368 (Kennedy-Rogers) is enacted into law.","PeriodicalId":231350,"journal":{"name":"IEEE CSIT Newsletter","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1973-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134239509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A proposal to support the ethical engineer","authors":"S. Unger","doi":"10.1109/CSIT.1973.6498754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSIT.1973.6498754","url":null,"abstract":"An important function of an engineering society should be to encourage engineers to act ethically ih their work. However, in many cases, the employee engineer finds that such action will bring him into conflict with his employer. He is then faced with the possibility of severe reprisals that may extend as far as summary discharge and even blacklisting; a flagrant example of this is the BART case1. Such discharge, bad enough in itself, becomes even more serious where the loss of substantial accumulated pension credits may also be involved.","PeriodicalId":231350,"journal":{"name":"IEEE CSIT Newsletter","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1973-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126943952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Costs and constraints","authors":"R. Goldner","doi":"10.1109/CSIT.1973.6498755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSIT.1973.6498755","url":null,"abstract":"One common difficulty with assessing the worth of a (usually non-standard) technique is how to judge the costs of the technique. Unfortunately, short-range, narrow economic notions are predominantly used. This often destroys an idea before it is given a fair forum.","PeriodicalId":231350,"journal":{"name":"IEEE CSIT Newsletter","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1973-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121030385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human communications","authors":"J. B. Wiesner","doi":"10.1109/csit.1973.6498743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/csit.1973.6498743","url":null,"abstract":"Editor's note: The following is the text of an address presented at the International Communications Association Conference on May 14, 1973. Reprinted with permission of author.","PeriodicalId":231350,"journal":{"name":"IEEE CSIT Newsletter","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1973-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127345284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The BART case: Ethics and the employed engineer","authors":"S. Unger","doi":"10.1109/CSIT.1973.6498744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSIT.1973.6498744","url":null,"abstract":"There has been an upsurge of discussion recently about the status of engineering as a profession, the obligations of the engineer toward the public, and the relationship of the engineer to his employer. Some very important facets of these questions are illuminated by the fate of three engineers employed by BART. (Bay Area Rapid Transit).","PeriodicalId":231350,"journal":{"name":"IEEE CSIT Newsletter","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1973-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128354318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1973 National Computer Conference","authors":"A. Robbi, P. M. Russo","doi":"10.1109/CSIT.1973.6498745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CSIT.1973.6498745","url":null,"abstract":"Evolutions and revolutions in computer technology may affect society either on a global scale (management of the economy, law enforcement, etc.) or on a local scale (privacy of the individual, home computers, wired cities, credit ratings, etc.) or both. The 103 sessions comprising the 1973 National Computer Conference (NCC) dealt in part with these issues. Papers presented at three of the sessions are reviewed below. The written papers appear in the Conference Proceedings.(1)","PeriodicalId":231350,"journal":{"name":"IEEE CSIT Newsletter","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1973-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134274804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Whither Intercon?","authors":"A. Robbi","doi":"10.1109/csit.1973.6498741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/csit.1973.6498741","url":null,"abstract":"Perhaps a more accurate title would be \"Wither INTERCON\" The boom year of the sixties left IEEE ill-prepared of cope with the harsher economics and changing attitudes of the seventies. this fact is manifest in the plan for INTERCON'74 and in the report of on ad Hoc Committee of IEEE Conference Board entitled \"Long Range Plan for INTERCON\" (May 7, 1973).","PeriodicalId":231350,"journal":{"name":"IEEE CSIT Newsletter","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1973-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121865951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}