 Also in the early 1980s, to demonstrate to fellow philosophers that computer ethics was an important and viable new branch of applied ethics, Bynum decided to create an entire computer ethics issue of the journal "Metaphilosophy" (he was editor-in-chief of the journal at the time).To generate papers for the special issue, he arranged an essay competition on the topic of computer ethics, with a $500 first prize plus publication in the special issue for the best half-dozen submitted papers.Professor James Moor of Dartmouth submitted the prize-winning paper "What is Computer Ethics?"