CLEAR: Task Force on “Community-Led Ethics for Accountability in Research”

Publication and Scientific Ethics

The CLEAR Task Force (Community-Led Ethics for Accountability in Research) is formed on the initiative of the Computing Research Association (CRA), as a meeting point of similar efforts that were also planned in other computing societies, such as the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Coordinated by ACM, the members of CLEAR will be representatives of CRA society members as well as other individuals from the computing community. CLEAR is broadly tasked with looking into the growing phenomena of unethical behavior in scientific research and publication practices in computing and identifying steps that our community can take to make them disappear.

Members

Society Representatives

Michael S. Kirkpatrick (Chair) – ACM,
James Madison University

Nancy M. Amato – CRA,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Terry Benzel – IEEE-CS,
Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California

Joydeep Biswas – AAAI,
University of Texas at Austin

Alex Pothen – SIAM,
Purdue University

William Enck – USENIX,
North Carolina State University

Elisabetta Di Nitto – Informatics Europe,
Politecnico di Milano

Independent Members

Sourav S. Bhowmick,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Betsy DiSalvo,
Georgia Institute of Technology

Wolfgang Gatterbauer,
Northeastern University

Yannis Ioannidis,
University of Athens

Alkis Simitsis,
Athena Research Center

Eugene Spafford,
Purdue University

Wei Wang,
University of California, Los Angeles

Ex officio Members

Tracy Camp – CRA,
Executive Director and CEO at CRA and Professor at Colorado School of Mines

Sara Kate Heukerott – ACM,
Associate Director of Publications at ACM