Professional and technical responsibility of BCS members

A discussion meeting, hosted by the BCS, on the professional and technical responsibility of members when invited to participate in projects which they believe to be infeasible, was held at CIPFA on 13th December 1985. Professor Margaret Boden, of the Cognitive Studies Programme at the University of Sussex, chaired the meeting. The secondary issue, that researchers were being asked to undertake speculative ventures (for example SDI) which could prove a distraction from the essential research work, was also addressed.