Marty J. Wolf

Selected Papers

Information and Computer Ethics

• Wolf, M. J., Grodzinsky, F. S., and Miller, K. Artificial agents, cloud computing, and quantum computing: Applying Floridi's method of levels of abstraction. In Luciano Floridi's Philosophy of Technology: Critical Reflections. H. Demir, ed. Springer: 2012.
• Grodzinsky, F. S., Miller, K. and Wolf, M. J. Moral responsibility for computing artifacts: "The Rules" and issues of trust. Ethicomp 2011 (September, 2011).
• Wolf, M. J., Grodzinsky, F. S., and Miller, K. Is quantum computing inherently evil? Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry 2011 (June, 2011).
• Miller, K., Wolf, M. J., and Grodzinsky, F. S.. Quantum computing and the cloud: challenges to an object-oriented model of trust. IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society 2011 (May, 2011).
• Grodzinsky, F. S., Miller, K. and Wolf, M. J. Developing artificial agents worthy of trust: “Would you buy a used car from this artificial agent?”. Ethics and Information Technology, 13, 1 (March, 2011), 17-27, DOI: 10.1007/s10676-010-9255-1. A preliminary version of this paper was presented at CEPE 2009 (June, 2009).
• Grodzinsky, F. S. Miller, K., and Wolf, M. J., Toward a model of trust and e-trust processes using object-oriented methodologies. Ethicomp 2010 (April, 2010).
• Wolf, M. J., Miller, K., and Grodzinsky, F. S. On the meaning of Free Software. Ethics and Information Technology, 11, 4 (December, 2009), 279-286, DOI: 10.1007/s10676-009-9207-9.
• Wolf, M. J., Miller, K., and Grodzinsky, F. S. Free, source-code-available, or proprietary: An ethically charged, context-sensitive choice. Ethicomp 2008 (September, 2008). Also, ACM SIGCAS, 39, 1 (June, 2009), 15-26.
• Grodzinsky, F. S., Miller, K. and Wolf, M. J. The ethics of designing artificial agents. Ethics and Information Technology, 10, 2-3 (September, 2008), DOI: 10.1007/s10676-008-9163-9.
• Grodzinsky, F. S. and Wolf, M. J. Ethical interest in free and open source software. In The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics, K. E. Himma and H. T. Tavani, eds. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ: 2008.
• Grodzinsky, F. S., Miller, K. and Wolf, M. J. The ethical implications of the messenger's haircut: steganography in the digital age. In Readings in Internet Security: Hacking, Counterhacking, and Society. Ken Himma, ed. Jones and Bartlett, Sudbury, MA: 2007.
• Wolf, M. J., and Grodzinsky, F. S. Good/Fast/Cheap: Contexts, relationships and professional responsibility during software development. Symposium on Applied Computing 2006, (April 2006).
• Grodzinsky, F. S., Miller, K. and Wolf, M. J. Influences on and incentives for increasing software reliability. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 4, 2 (2006).
• Grodzinsky, F. S., Miller, K. and Wolf, M. J. Ethical issues in Open Source Software. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 1, 4 (2003).

Philosophy of Information and Computation

• Wolf, M. J. The importance of actualizing control in the processing of instructional information. Philosophy and Technology 26, 1 (2013), 67-70. DOI:10.1007/s13347-012-0076-5.
• Wolf, M. J. Analysis, clarification and extension of the Theory of Strongly Semantic Information. Etica & Politica , XIII, 2 (2011), 246-254.

Theoretical Computer Science and Graph Theory

• Parker, D. B., Westhoff, R. F., and Wolf, M. J. Two-path convexity and bipartite tournaments of small rank. Ars Combinatoria, 97, (Oct 2010).
• Parker, D. B., Westhoff, R. F., and Wolf, M. J. Convex independence and the structure of clone-free multipartite tournaments. Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory, 29, 1 (2009), 51-69.
• Parker, D. B., Westhoff, R. F., and Wolf, M. J. On two-path convexity in multipartite tournaments. European Journal of Combinatorics, 29, (April 2008), 641-651.
• Parker, D. B., Westhoff, R. F., and Wolf, M. J. Two-path convexity in clone-free regular multipartite tournaments. Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, 36, (October 2006), 177-196.
• Wolf, M.J., Easteal, S., Kahn, M. McKay, B.D., and Jermiin, L.S. TrExML: A maximum likelihood program for extensive tree-space exploration. Bioinformatics, 16 (2000), 383-394.
• Wolf, M. J. and D. J. Haglin. An optimal algorithm for finding all convex subsets in tournaments. Ars Combinatoria, (May 1999), 173-180.
• Haglin, D. J., and M. J. Wolf, "Convex subsets in tournaments," SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 9, 1 (February 1996), 63-70.
• Wolf, M. J., "Nondeterministic circuits, space complexity and quasigroups," Theoretical Computer Science, 125, 2 (March 1994), 295-313.

Computer Science Education

• Webb, D., G. Richgels, M. J. Wolf, T. Frauenholtz, A. Hougen, Improving student interest, mathematical skills, and future success through implementation of novel mathematics bridge course for high school seniors and post-secondary students. Tenth International Conference on Models in Developing Mathematics Education, (September 2009).
• Wolf, M. J. Debate as a final examination in a computer ethics course. 2005 Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium, (April 2005).
• Wolf, M. J., "Models of computation: An introduction to computer science," 1994 Small College Computing Symposium, (April 1994).

Links that have something to do with my interests, hobbies and personality quirks

• A comprehensive listing of my scholarship.
• St. Cross College in Oxford, UK.
• The Philosophers Song
• Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
• My favorite curling team
• Bemidji's Weather
• University of Minnesota, Morris
• Australian National University
• Ski-Doo
• Deer and Deer Hunting
• Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
• My friend Ernie has his own perspective on the finer things in life.