WWW Ethics Center for Engineering and Science

这项支助将维持并继续发展万维网工程与科学伦理中心，并计划扩大其用途和用途。在现任首席调查员的领导下，一个多样化的学生小组将在更新期间继续开展中心的工作，该首席调查员由一个杰出的咨询委员会提供建议。会议活动将通过凯斯西部保护区的贝克-诺德人文中心提供支持。在其存在的28个月中，该中心迅速发展成为一个有1500多页的内容丰富、组织严密的网站。以下部分可从主页访问：研究伦理、伦理规范和准则、道德领袖、解决问题、企业环境中的伦理、多样性、论文和教学资源。该页面上还有指向关键字索引、参考书目、术语词汇表、组织/首字母缩略词列表的链接，以及关于该网站和其他有关科学和工程伦理的网站的信息，以及一个搜索引擎。自1995年5月以来，使用量翻了三番，翻一番所需的时间间隔继续缩短。中心现在平均每天有1,500多个页面请求，每月有6,000至7,500个不同的主机访问中心。--更新期的一些目标与以往的成就相似，例如：--改进业务，以进一步便利网站的反应和可靠性；--更新书目、索引和关键字，并进一步将词汇表与新的和现有的页面链接，并增加其他超媒体增强功能；--对用户的请求和评论作出持续回应；--编写新的案例、论文和评论。--这一续期的特别目标是为中心的总体重点、评价和发展持续支助制定一项计划。更新时期的新目标是那些旨在通过这个独特的道德中心介绍学者和其他潜在贡献者在创建教育资源和交流思想方面发挥更积极作用的目标。这些举措将把学术界熟悉的模式与利用万维网的特殊能力结合起来。在这些倡议中，突出的是联合主办的关于科学和工程伦理主题的会议，会议记录将在WWW伦理中心提供。

This support will maintain and continue to develop the World Wide Web Ethics Center for Engineering & Science and plan for the expansion of its use and usefulness. A diverse student team under the direction of the present principal investigator, who is advised by a-distinguished advisory board, will continue to carry on the work of the Center in the renewal-period. Conference activities will be supported through Case Western-Reserve's Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities. In the twenty-eight months of its-existence the Center has grown rapidly into a substantial and well-organized-site of over 1,500 pages. The following sections are available from the main page: Research Ethics, Ethical Codes and Guidelines, Moral Leaders, Solving Problems, Ethics in a Corporate Setting, Diversity, Essays, and Instructional Resources. Also on that page are links to a keyword index, a bibliography, a glossary of terms, and an organization/acronym list, as well as information about the site and other sites on science and engineering ethics, and a search engine. Use has doubled three times since May 1995, and the time interval required for-doubling continues to decrease. The Center now averages over 1,500 requests for pages per day and 6,000 to 7,500 distinct hosts access the Center each month.--Some of the objectives for the renewal period are similar to previous accomplishments, such-as:--operational improvements to further facilitate response and-reliability of the site;-updating of the bibliography, the indexes, and the keywords, and further linking of the-glossary to new and existing pages, and the addition of other hypermedia enhancements; ongoing response to user requests and comments;-creation of new cases, essays and commentaries.--The special objectives for this renewal period are to develop a plan for the overall focus of the Center, for evaluation, and for the development of on-going support. Novel objectives for the renewal period are those designed to introduce scholars and other-potential contributors to a more active role in creating educational resources and exchanging ideas-through this unique Ethics Center. These initiatives will meld modalities familiar to academics with-exploitation of the special capabilities of the WWW. Prominent among these initiatives will be-jointly sponsored conferences on topics in science and engineering ethics, the proceedings of-which will be made available in the WWW Ethics Center.