Marsha Cook Woodbury, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
| Advisor for
Alpha Omega Epsilon, a social and professional
engineering sorority Advisor for the UIUC programming teams that competed in the 27th, 28th, 29th, 31st, 32nd, and 33rd Annual ACM-ICPC World Finals. See the pictures of our trip to Banff, Candada, April, 2008. |
Former Chair,
CPSR, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Course Designer for the Global Campus Faculty member of the International Women's University (ifu) Former advisor for the Computer Fear Film Festival (CF3) |
Current Courses:
- CS 105 - Introduction to Computing with Application to Business and Commerce
- CS 210 - Ethics and Professionalism in Computing
Publications
- Information Integrity in Africa: Exploring Information Corruption Issues, in issue No.7 (06/2007) of the International Review for Information Ethics, http://www.i-r-i-e.net/.
- Security, in the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, Macmillan Reference, 2004.
- A Difficult Decade: Continuing Freedom of Information Challenges for the United States and its Universities -- An article that updates the earlier one, Freedom of Information Laws Affect the Autonomy of American Universities. Both are in the E Law - Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law. The latest appears in Vol. 10, N. 3, the December 2003 issue.
- What, Me Worry? The Empowerment of Employees, a chapter in The Social, Ethical & Policy Implications of Information Systems, 2004, edited by Brennan and Johnson, Information Science Publishing.
- Jewish Images in the Media, a chapter in Images That Injure, 2nd Edition, 2003, edited by Lester and Ross, Praeger Publishers.
- Computer and Information Ethics, 2002, by Marsha Woodbury, a text book; Stipes Publishing Company, ISBN 158874-155-9
- Women in Computing, a chapter in Feminist Challenges in the Information Age, 2002, by Lloyd, et. al. published by Leske + Budrich, Opladen, ISBN 3-8100-3255-7.
- Web Ethics in
Multimedia,
on the CD Renaissance in Social Science Computing, 2002,
edited by
- On Ethics and
Identity,
a chapter in Libraries, Museums, and Archives: Legal Issues and
Ethical
Challenges in the New Information Era,2002, edited by Linpinski,
Scarecrow Press,
Presentations:
- What, Me Worry? The Empowerment of Employees, ppt., and game, for the Executive Club of Champaign County, May 2008.
- Potpourri of Practical Pointers: From PowerPoint to Facebook Teaching Showcase: Brown Bag Series, Spring 2008
- Reseach Ethics for Ph.D. Students at UIUC on Sept. 12, 2007
- Hot Topics in
Computer
Ethics (video)
and (PowerPt
slides)from The Center for Women and Information Technology at
UMBC on
- Net
Gains in Teaching, PowerPoint presentation for
- The PowerPoint Presentation: Computer Ethics After Sept. 11, 2001 (see also the Web Version)
- Web Ethics -- ifu2000 PowerPoint presentation
- The Bout of the Century? Information Ethics vs. E-Commerce Keynote and Paper for the Institute for Legal and Ethical Issues in the New Information Era: Challenges for Libraries, Museums, and Archives Conference
- Computers,
Security
and Ethics Taught on Two Campuses at the Same Time (Almost) for
the ITiCSE '99 --
Conference
on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education,
- Privacy and Technology
- May98--Defining Web Ethics (see also the PowerPoint version)
- Email, Voicemail, and Privacy: What Policy is Ethical?
- The Net and National Identity: Freedom and Cooperation, or Fragmentation and Chaos?
- Don't Let' Em Loose Without a License: Teaching Ethical Use of Computers Via the Web
Educational History:
- Ph.D. UIUC in Computer-Aided Instruction at the College of Education, 1995
- M.S. UIUC in Journalism,1991. I wrote a weekly column for the DI (Daily Illini).
- A.B. cum laude, Stanford University, Communications (minor in History), 1968. I worked on the infamous Stanford Daily.
Courses Previously Taught:
- CS105 and CS210 until the present
- C&I 302T - Teaching Diverse Middle Grade Students Spring, 1999
- C&I335 (CS 317) - Computer Assisted Instruction Fall, 1998
- CS 397, Computers, Security, and Ethics Fall 1997
- LIS 390, Information, Libraries and Society Summer 1996
- LIS199, Introduction to Information Technology Fall 1996
Previous Employment:
- as Visiting Assistant Professor and Computer Assisted Instruction Specialist at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science
- as Associate Director of Education for the Sloan Center for Asynchronous Learning Environments
- on the The Discovery System Network Tutorial team. Learn more about our work
- on the first on-line presence for the Council on Teacher Education, including the listing of UIUC Course Requirements for Certification of Illinois Teachers
- on the CPSR site, previously in charge of the website, now only: GLOBAL web resources. CPSR-GLOBAL is a moderated listserv that I started. It is fed to USENET: comp.org.cpsr.talk
At UIUC I am owner of
- WOC-INFO, the listserv about events and policies for women at UIUC (Owner and Editor).
National organizations:
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- American Library Association
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- American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
- Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE)
- Champaign County ACLU Steering Committee
- Investigative Reporting Groups (NICAR/IRE)
- National Freedom of Information Coalition (NFOIC)
I maintain a decidedly more informal personal home page. I am a Broadway fan.
When you work with technology, you have to keep your sense of humor...You might like to see the toolbar, too.
