Knowledge and Information Technology Symposium
Session Two
Edith Kurzweil:
Welcome back. Richard Grimm will moderate this
afternoon's session. He's an assistant attorney general of the state of
New York and in the Antitrust Bureau, where, among other things, he
has supervised the investigation of various mergers. He received his B.A.
in government from Wesleyan University, and has specialized in
antitrust practices and litigation since his graduation from Yale Law
School in
1971.
He served as a senior trial attorney in the U.S. Depart–
ment of Justice in Washington from
1977
to
1981,
has been counsel to
a number of law firms, and has handled international and antitrust liti–
gation. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of
Partisan Review,
and the board chairman of the Annabe lla Gonzalez Dance Theater, a
modern dance company. Richard will take over now.
Richard Grimm:
Thank you, Edith. Although this morning's panel of Ed
Rothstein and Ray Kurzweil will be difficult to top, we have excellent
panelists this afternoon as well. Guy Burgess, who will speak second, is
the co-director with Heidi Burgess of the Conflict Research Consortium
at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he received his Ph .D. in
sociology in
1979.
He has done policy research as a fellow at MIT; and
has published books and monographs, and written for Web sites, about
conflict resolution. He has covered not just what we in the legal field
would consider alternate dispute resolution, but also all kinds of situa–
tions that arise in daily life, involving such matters as charter schools
and community environmental conflicts. He is a big proponent and
expert in using Web-based technology in order to develop information
that people in the field of conflict resolution can share. He will be dis–
cussing the relationship of these technologies, and whether culture and
social trends really are keeping up with the technological issues we were
hearing about this morning. Thus he will be able to address the kind of
issues that David Sidorsky raised about what technological development
is doing to our culture and to our social life.
