SWINY EVENT

"Science, Technology, Public Opinion and Presidential Elections"

Chaired by Dr. Arnold Urken, professor of political science at Stevens Institute of Technology, the panel will feature experts from both academia and journalism. The discussion will focus on the strengths and pitfalls of scientific metrics and electronic technologies applied to gauging public opinion and the voting process in the 21st century. Extensive Q&A will follow a presentation by Dr. Urken and a discussion among the panel members. A wine and cheese reception will follow the program. Admission is $15 for members and non-members. Please RSVP to Patrick A. Berzinski at pberzins@stevens.edu. Send pre-event admissions fees (check or money order) to Patrick at Stevens Institute of Technology, Office of Development, Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Cash will be accepted at the door. Please have ID available. Be mindful that if you RSVP and fail to show, you are still expected to pay the admission fee.

The Panel:
Arnold B. Urken is a Professor of Political Science at Stevens Institute of Technology. He has served as a consultant for government and industry on computer-mediated voting and election management. He is a founding member of the Open Voting Consortium, a group of academics and developers that is studying an open source approach to building secure and reliable voting systems. He also co-founded (and closed) an Independent Testing Authority laboratory when it became apparent that mission-critical standards for voting software were not being enforced by federal electoral officials (see http://www.stevens.edu/humanities/People/Faculty/Arnold_Urken.htm).

Steven S. Ross has written about science, technology, business and the environment for more than 35 years. He has conducted many of his own surveys (including a decade-long annual survey on how journalists use the Internet and other new technologies) and teaches journalists around the world how to design, analyze and report on political polls. Ross is also a vocal critic of the way polls are reported in the U.S. media (see http://www.fathom.com/feature/35307/).

Jerry MacArthur Hultin is currently the Dean of the Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology; from 1997 through 2000 he was the Under Secretary of the Navy, the #2 civilian leader of the United States Navy and Marine Corps. Conducting his private law practice in Ohio, he managed the statewide Presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton, a friend from his student days at Yale Law School (see http://howe.stevens.edu/).

Steve Taylor is a veteran broadcast journalist and moderator of "Technogenesis," the Stevens Institute of Technology television program for the Comcast network. Taylor is also a correspondent for ABC News who also has worked for CNN, CBS Radio, Mutual/NBC Radio and PBS. He covered the White House during the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations for the Unistar Radio Network, the McNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, National Journal's CongressDaily and Satellite News Channel. He was the first broadcast reporter ever to win the Merriman Smith Award for presidential news coverage from the White House Correspondents Association (see http://www.technogenesis.tv/).

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