Dr. Huff received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Princeton University in 1987 and was an NIH post-doctoral fellow with the Committee for Social Science Research in Computing at Carnegie Mellon University. He has been teaching and researching at St. Olaf College since 1988. He has taught courses in Computers and Society at Carnegie Mellon, St. Olaf College, and The George Washington University. During the 1994-1995 academic year he was a research scientist at George Washington University where he served as a member of a national task force to set standards for teaching ethical and social issues in computing in the computer science curriculum. He was a member of the panel that designed the curriculum standards in Social and Professional Issues for Computing Curricula 2001. He spent the 2002-2003 academic year at DeMontfort University in the UK doing NSF-sponsored research on the life stories of moral exemplars in computing in the UK and Scandinavia.

Dr. Huff currently teaches Ethical Issues in Software Design in St. Olaf's Computer Science program. He has published his research on moral reasoning, moral exemplars, gender and computing, the social effects of electronic interaction, the uses of computing in education, and the teaching of social and ethical issues associated with computing. He is the Associate Editor for Psychology of the peer-reviewed journal Social Science Computer Review, and moderates two discussion lists for research psychologists. Dr. Huff was the keynote speaker at ETHICOMP 2002 in Lisbon, Portugal. In March of 2003 he was one of the team of leaders for the first workshop in Poland on Professional Issues in Computing. He was also a keynote speaker at SIGMIS 2004 in Tucson AZ. His current projects include a book that addresses ethical issues in software design and the coding of moral exemplar interviews.