Brad Folkestad, director of athletic media relations, and Dax Larson, assistant director of media relations, attended the 2013 College Sports Information Directors of America convention in Orlando, Fla, June 12-15. The convention was held in conjunction with the annual convention of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and its affiliated organizations.

Dr. Del Lyren, professor of music, will present a recital and lecture at 2 p.m., Sept. 7, at the Nemeth Art Center, 301 Court Ave., in Park Rapids. The event is part of Lyren’s final project for the Region 2 Arts Council/McKnight Career Development Fellowship Award. His grant proposal was titled “Learning Jazz Improvisation on an Electric Wind Instrument.” The presentation will include Lyren performing what he learned in lessons with Jeff Coffin, saxophone player with the Dave Matthews Band and pictures and stories from his tour with the band. The event is free and open to the public.

Bill Maki, vice president for finance and administration, was selected to join the board of trustees for the Grand Rapids-based Blandin Foundation. Blandin Foundation trustees are Minnesota-based community leaders who provide strategic leadership and governance, fiduciary and financial oversight for the Foundation.  They serve up to 12 years and represent a variety of perspectives from across rural Minnesota. Maki was selected in June and will join the board in Jan. 2014.

Dr. Marty Wolf, professor of computer science, presented at three conferences over the summer, including the keynote presentation at the 10th International Computer Ethics Conference – Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry, held in Lisbon, Portugal, from July 1-3.

• He presented “Automated deceptions, benevolent and otherwise” with co-author Frances Grodzinsky, a staff member with the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility at the University of Southern Connecticut and co-director of the Hersher Institute of Ethics at Sacred Heart University, at the centre’s 2013 ETHICOMP conference, June 12-14, at the University of Southern Denmark in Kolding, Denmark.

He also gave a joint presentation, “An analysis of higher education using Floridi’s information ethics” with Tammy Bobrowsky, acquisition and serials librarian at the A.C. Clark Library; Marsha Driscoll, professor of psychology; Colleen Greer, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; and Siri Anderson, a former BSU faculty member who is now director of online learning at St. Catherine University.

• Wolf gave the keynote address, “Challenges for artificial general intelligence compound its ethical challenges,” at the Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry conference. A post-talk interview is available on YouTube.

He also presented “Morality*: An object-oriented approach to comparing machine and human morality” at the conference along with Keith Miller, professor of lifelong learning in the sciences at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. An abstract for that presentation is available on the conference website.

• Wolf co-authored “On deception and trust in artificial agent development,” which was presented by fellow co-authors Miller and Grodzinsky at the International Association of Computing and Psychology conference, July 15-17 at the University of Maryland.