CALL FOR PAPERS: Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing, a conference to be held in Boston on July 28, 1990. Appropriate subjects include computing in a democratic society (civil liberties, community access, computerized voting), autonomous weapons systems, and computers in the public interest (software safety, computing for the disabled). Deadline for submission is March 1,1990. Contact Douglas Schuler, Boeing Computer Services, MS 7L-64, P O.. 24346, Seattle, WA 98124-0346 (or ph. 206-865-3226).

CONFERENCE: Moral Problems in the Professions: Advocacy, Institutional Ethics, and Role Responsibilities, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 29-31, 1990. Topics will include advocacy in the lawyer-client relationship, in journalism, in public policy; corporate responsibility, personnel policy, and moral standards for research with human subjects; and role responsibilities, individual obligations to institutions, and conflicts between duties to institutions and other moral obligations. Contact Stephen Kalish, College of Law, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0902 (or ph. 402-472-2844). Professions and Public Authority: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, sponsored in part by the Inter national Sociological Association's Research Committee on Work, will be held April 21-22, 1990, in Boston, to examine historical, political, and comparative approaches to the changes in relationships between professions and their context, as well as new conceptions and approaches to the study of the changing relationships among professions, public authorities, and other centers of power.

Contact Louis H. Orzack, Committee on Professions, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (or ph. 201-648-525). Current Controversies in the Right to Live, the Right to Die II: Legal, Medical, and Ethical Issues, DuPont Plaza Hotel, Washington, DC, April 26-28, 1990. Contact Ms. Mary Beth London, Leahy Hall, Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20065.

BOOKS: Codes of Professional Responsibility, 2nd., edited by Rena A. Guilin (Bureau of National Affairs: Washington, DC, 1990) includes 43 codes of ethics, 3 detailed indexes, and names and address of 350 essential resources in ethics.

Owning Scientific and Technical Information: Value and Ethical Issues, December, 1989 by Rutgers University Press. Edited by Vivian Weil, Director of CSEP and John W. Snapper, a philosopher at IIT and member of CSEP's Steering Committee. This volume brings together fifteen essays by specialists in the law, economics, philosophy, and history. Michael Davis, Senior Research Associate at CSEP, is the author of one of the essays.

A whole range of novel problems in intellectual property rights have arisen from recent innovations in science and technologyas well as from new, intricate relationships among academic researchers, government, and private industry. Should computer software be patented or copyrighted? How can ownership of plant varieties, genetically engineered organisms, and their products be patented? Should body parts and cell lines derived from them be patented? What is the impact of changes in intellectual property rights on the process of scientific research and development? The volume includes an annotated bibliography. It is available from bookstores (including IIT's) for $20.00 paperback and $40.00 hardcover.

The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology was established in 1976 for the purpose of promoting education and scholarship relating to ethical and policy issues of the professions.

EDITOR: Michael Davis
STAFF: Rebecca Newton
EDITORIAL BOARD: Thomas Calero, Martin Malin, Ullica Segerstrala, Vivian Weil.

Opinions expressed in Perspectives on the Professions are those of the authors, and not necessarily those of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions or the Illinois Institute of Technology. Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill. 60616.