Degrees
Ph.D., Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1994
M.S., Management Information Systems, University of Arizona, 1980
M.A., Mathematical Logic, University of East Anglia, 1978
B.A., Philosophy, University of Wyoming, 1975
Teaching
Computer Science, Information Systems, and
Philosophy courses for the University of Wyoming, University of
Maryland University College (European Division), State University of
New York at Binghamton, Metropolitan State College, and others.
Research in the Philosophy of Computer Science
Blog on the Philosophy of Computer Science hosted by the Communications
of the ACM,
online at http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/
| Does
Nature Use Data? | July 18, 2016 |
| The Work and Inspiration of the International Associaton for Computing and Philosophy | August 30, 2016 |
| What Makes a Program Elegant? | October 11, 2016 |
| The Work and Inspiration of the APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers | November 19, 2016 |
| Fiction as Model Theory | December 30, 2016 |
| The Work and Inspiration of the Commission on the History and Philosophy of Computing | January 28, 2017 |
| Fact Versus Frivolity in Facebook | February 26, 2017 |
| Ethical Theories Spotted in Silicon Valley | March 16, 2017 |
| Operating Systems as Possible Worlds | April 29, 2017 |
| The
Ethical Problem of Software Neglect | May 31 2017
In print edition, September 2017 |
| Deep
Dictionary | June 20 2017
In print edition, October 2017 |
| On
the Ethics of Cyberwar | July 26 2017 |
| It's Not the 'Why' Chromosome, It's the 'How' | September 11 2017 |
| Human Acts and Computer Apps | November 28, 2017 |
| Tech Ethics at Work | January 29, 2018 |
| Examples of Phenomenology in Computing | March 29 2018 |
| Articulation
of Decision Responsibility | May 21, 2018
In print edition, August 2018 |
| First-Class Philosophical Failure | July 30 2018 |
| Tech
User Reponsibility | September 30, 2018
In print edition, February 2019 |
| FictionStein | November
21, 2018 |
| What Is a Variable? | January 31, 2019
In print edition, April 2019 |
| The Artificialistic Fallacy | March 30, 2019 |
| Variable Vagaries | May 19, 2019
In print edition, October 2019 |
| Lessons from a First-Year Seminar | July 27, 2019
In print edition, December 2019 |
| Vice Epistemology of the Internet | September 30, 2019 |
| Voting, Coding, and the Code | November 27, 2019
In print edition, March 2020 |
|
The Vote as a Declared Datum | January 30, 2020 |
|
Voting as Tallying in Public | March 5, 2020 |
| The Virus Analogy and Validation | May 29, 2020
In print edition, October 2020 |
| Computing Ethics and Teaching It | July 6, 2020 |
| Trolleyspotting | September 13, 2020 |
| Deadlines of the Digital Turn | November 7, 2020
In print edition, February 2021 |
| First-Year Research Sources | January 27, 2021 |
| Misnomer and Malgorithm | March 27, 2021 |
| Now What? Order and Test | May 30, 2021 |
| Gaming the System: Definition | July 31, 2021 |
| Safe Space for Alt-Views | September 27, 2021
In print edition, December 2021 |
| Experiencing Loops in Time | November 28, 2021 |
| Cryptocurs Don't Asportate | January 28, 2022 |
| Students Speak to Ethical Issues | March 16, 2022 |
| Whence Machine Volition? | May 30, 2022 |
| Communing on Computing | July 30, 2022 |
| Where to Look: CS Ethics Research | September 30, 2022 |
| Observation of Bias | December 24, 2022 |
| The Imperativity of Algorithms | March 31, 2023 |
| Pedagogical Paths Through Ethics | May 27, 2023 |
| Bigger than a Blackbox | July 29, 2023 |
| Chat Generative Pre-trained... Testimony | September 30, 2023 |
| Cook-Levin: The Ugly Underbelly is Good for Us | December 10, 2023
In print edition, March 2024 |
| Are You a Doomer or a Boomer? | March 27, 2024 |
| The Techno-Pro Attitude | June 10, 2024 |
A Call for More Philosophy in the Philosophy of Computer Science, American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Computers 15:2, Spring 2016. Online at http://www.apaonline.org/?computers_newsletter
What An Algorithm Is. Philosophy & Technology, March 2016, 29:1, 35-59, DOI:10.1007/s13347-014-0184-5
Free online from Springer at http://rdcu.be/m1SZ
Other Public Projects
A Collection of
Suggested Electronic Course Templates for Use in Higher Education
(Hill, Fresen, and Geng), Online at
http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt/article/view/21669,
Published in Research in Learning Technology,
April 2014
"Derivation of Electronic Course Templates for Use in Higher
Education"
(Fresen, Hill, and Geng), Online at
http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt/article/view/18665, Published in Research in Learning Technology,
December 2012
How Close Did Kurt Godel Get to the University of Wyoming?, SIGACT News, the Newsletter of the Special Interest Group in Algorithms and Computability Theory, Association for Computing Machinery, June 2007. (PDF version)