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MOTM is pleased to welcome Mark Gibbs as our featured guest this Tuesday night, March 30. 
For all the benefits computers and the Internet have given our culture they have also made it far more complex. That complexity appears not only in the mechanics of how we do things but also in the way we think about what we and others do in this brave new whirl. Arguably, one of the biggest problems is that we don't have useful ethical frameworks in which to make judgments about both old and new behaviors. For example, should people be responsible for how a computer misbehaves when they don't control it? Is it reasonable to consider sending teenagers to prison for sexting? Is a school overstepping its role by using computers to monitor student behavior when they are out of school? These are just a few of the many thorny questions that face us and in this salon, we'll examine a few selected cases, both real and fictitious, and as a group explore the ethical questions involved.
About Mark Gibbs:
For over twenty-five years, Mark Gibbs has created and built businesses as well as providing consulting services, lecturing, and authoring numerous columns, articles, and books about the IT industry. For over thirty years, Mark Gibbs has consulted, lectured, and authored numerous articles and books.
Gibbs has presented at numerous seminars and conferences internationally on the theory and practical business use of Information Technology. Seminar topics have included NetWare, e-commerce, spam, security, and Web technologies.
For the last 15 years, in addition to consulting and various other projects, Gibbs has been writing the popular weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns as well as and the Web Applications Newsletter for Network World. Gibbs is also the author of the best selling titles "The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Networking" and "Navigating the Internet."
Gibbs conceived of and was a co-founder of Netratings, Inc., a leading Internet and digital media measurement and analysis company that went public in 2000 and which has since been wholly acquired by the Nielsen Company.
Gibbs was co-founder of the UK operation of Novell, Inc., where he was responsible for the management of all technical services. He also worked for Novell's Strategic Marketing Group and Novell International and was with Novell for five years.
Mark Gibbs' Bio
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