 He and Walter Maner decided to work together to plan the conference.In 1989, the National Science Foundation provided a conference-planning grant (grant # DIR-8820595) enabling Bynum and Maner to form a committee of 16 distinguished scholars and computer science leaders to plan the National Conference on Computing and Values (NCCV).In August 1991, NCCV (funded by NSF grant # DIR-9012492) was held at Southern Connecticut State University.