Marty J. Wolf :: Computer Science :: Bemidji State University

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"We all have the right to go to hell our own way, as long as each of us goes unaccompanied."--Luciano Floridi
"... information is a process, a physical process that takes place in time and space spanning both of them."--Riccardo Manzotti
"The mind does not wish to acquire information for its own sake. It needs information to defend itself from reality and survive."--Luciano Floridi
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I am co-chair of the ACM Committee on Professional Ethics.
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I have signed on to The Rules regarding moral responsibility for computing artifacts.

Courses I am teaching this semester

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Computer Science 1309, Problem Solving and Computation
Computer Science 3270, Advanced Web Programming
Computer Science 4627, Theory of Computation

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Selected Papers

Information and Computer Ethics

Wolf, M. J., Miller, K. W., and Grodzinsky, F. S. On the responsibility for uses of downstream software. CEPE 2019 (May, 2019).
Grodzinsky, F. S., Miller, K. W. and Wolf, M. J. Looking for the Full Story: Ethical issues associated with session replay scripts. ETHICOMP 2018 (September, 2018).
Wolf, M. J., Grodzinsky, F. S., and Miller, K. W. Why we should have seen that coming: Comments on Microsoft’s Tay "experiment" and wider implications. CEPE/ETHICOMP 2017 (June, 2017). Later appeared in The ORBIT Journal, 1, 2 (2017), DOI: 10.29297/orbit.v1i2.49.
Grodzinsky, F. S., Wolf, M. J., and Miller, K. W. Applying a social-relational model to explore the curious case of hitchBOT. IACAP 2016 (June, 2016).
Miller, K. W., Wolf, M. J., and Grodzinsky, F. S. This ethical trap is for roboticists, not robots: On the issue of artificial agent ethical decision making. Science and Engineering Ethics, 23, 2 (2017), 389-401, DOI: 10.1007/s11948-016-9785-y.
Wolf, M. J., and Fresco, N. Ethics of the software vulnerabilities and exploits market. The Information Society, 32, 4 (2016), 269-279, DOI:10.1080/01972243.2016.1177764.
Wolf, M. J., Grodzinsky, F. S., and Miller, K. W. There's something in your eye: Ethical implications of augmented visual field devices. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 14, 3 (2016).
Wolf, M. J., Grodzinsky, F. S., and Miller, K. W. Augmented reality all around us: Power and perception at a crossroads. ETHICOMP 2015 (September, 2015). Found in the proceedings, published in the ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society - Special Issue on Ethicomp, 45, 3, 126-131.
Wolf, M. J., and Fresco, N. My liver is broken. Can you print me a new one? In Computing and Philosophy, . V.C. Müller, ed. Heidelberg:Springer (Synthese Library 375), 2016.
Wolf, M. J., Grodzinsky, F. S. and Miller, K. W.. Robots, ethics and software – FOSS vs. Proprietary Licenses. In Computing and Philosophy, . V.C. Müller, ed. Heidelberg:Springer (Synthese Library 375), 2016.
Miller, K. W., Wolf, M. J., and Grodzinsky, F. S. Behind the mask: machine morality. Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. 27, 1 (2015), 99-107, DOI:10.1080/0952813X.2014.948315
Grodzinsky, F. S., Miller, K. W. and Wolf, M. J. Developing automated deceptions and the impact on trust. Philosophy and Technology 28, 1 (March, 2015), 91-105. DOI:10.1007/s13347-014-0158-7.
Grodzinsky, F. S., Miller, K. W. and Wolf, M. J. Augmented reality in your eye: Google Glass, Space Glasses, and beyond. CEPE 2014 (June, 2014).
Grodzinsky, F. S., Miller, K. W. and Wolf, M. J. On deception and trust in artificial agent development. IACAP 2013 (July, 2013).
Wolf, M. J., Miller, K., and Grodzinsky, F. S., Morality*: An object-oriented approach to comparing machine and human morality. CEPE 2013 (July, 2013).
Wolf, M. J., Greer, C., Driscoll, M., Anderson, S. and Bobrowsky, T. An analysis of higher education using Floridi's information ethics. ETHICOMP 2013 (June, 2013).
Grodzinsky, F. S., Miller, K. and Wolf, M. J. Automated deceptions, benevolent and otherwise. ETHICOMP 2013 (June, 2013).
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. 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.
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.
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.
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

Fresco, N. and Wolf, M. J. Data, signals and information in digital computation, Logique et Analyse, 61, 241 (March 2018).
Fresco, N., Wolf, M. J., and Copeland, B. J. On the indeterminacy of computation. IACAP 2016 (June, 2016).
Fresco, N. and Wolf, M. J. The instructional information processing account of digital computation, Synthese, 191, 7 (2014), 1469-1492. DOI:10.1007/s11229-013-0338-5.
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.

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