Professor John Weckert
IT and Nanotechnology: Ethics of Emergent Technology
jweckert@csu.edu.au
Telephone +61 (02) 6933-2372 and 61 (02) 6125-8995
Facsimile +61 (02) 6933-2733 and 61 (02) 6125-6579
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BA(Hons), MA, Dip CompSc, PhD
Biography
John Weckert researches mainly in the areas of ethics and new technologies, concentrating on information and communication technology and nanotechnology. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Nanoethics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale. He currently holds an ARC Linkage grant with the Australian Computer Society on ethics and regulation in the ICT industry and a National Science Foundation (US) grant on nanotechnology and human enhancement.
Fields of special interest
- Nanotechnology
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Methods for Ethically Assessing Emergent Technologies
- Philosophy of Technology



