Keith W. Miller

{{Short description|American computer scientist}}

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| awards = Weizenbaum Award

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| education = University of Iowa (PhD)

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| sub_discipline = computer ethics, AI ethics

| workplaces = University of Missouri – St. Louis

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Keith W. Miller is an American computer scientist and Orthwein Endowed Professor for Lifelong Learning in the Science Professor at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. He is a winner of the Weizenbaum Award{{cite web|url=http://csc.uis.edu/|title=Prof. Miller receives the Weizenbaum Award|accessdate=2012-08-01}}

and is known for his works on the computer ethics and AI ethics.{{cite web |last1=Bynum |first1=Terrell |title=Computer and Information Ethics |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2014/entries/ethics-computer/ |website=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |date=2014}}

The Park–Miller random number generator is named after him.{{cite journal |first1=Stephen K. |last1=Park |first2=Keith W. |last2=Miller |first3=Paul K. |last3=Stockmeyer |title=Technical Correspondence: Response |journal=Communications of the ACM |year=1988 |volume=36 |issue=7 |pages=108–110 |url=http://www.firstpr.com.au/dsp/rand31/p105-crawford.pdf#page=4 |doi=10.1145/159544.376068|s2cid=26156905 }}{{cite journal |first1=Stephen K. |last1=Park |first2=Keith W. |last2=Miller |title=Random Number Generators: Good Ones Are Hard To Find |journal=Communications of the ACM |year=1988 |volume=31 |issue=10 |pages=1192–1201 |url=http://www.firstpr.com.au/dsp/rand31/p1192-park.pdf |doi=10.1145/63039.63042|s2cid=207575300 }}

Books

  • D. Johnson with K. Miller. Computer Ethics: Analyzing Information Technology, 4th Ed. Prentice-Hall (2009).

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