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2005 Talks

Louise Richardson
Executive Dean,
Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study

The myth of Cyberterrorism:
The internet as a tool or a target of terrorists
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In this lecture I will examine the nature of terrorist tactics, their adoption of innovative tactics and their use of new technologies, in particular their use of the internet. I will suggest that the nature of the war on terrorism waged by the US has driven terrorists groups to a greater dependence on the internet. I will suggest some of the difficulties attendance upon trying to curtail terrorist use of these technologies by terrorists.

Fred Schneider
Professor,
Department of Computer Science Cornell University

Divide and Be Conquered:
Separation of Concerns for Trustworthiness
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It is indeed possible to build a trustworthy system from untrustworthy
components, but not by implementing the fault-tolerance and security
separately. Separation of concerns just does not apply. This lecture
will therefore discuss an architecture and underlying principles for
building trustworthy distributed services. Prototype realizations of
the approach will also be described.

Barbara Simons
Consulting Professor in Science,
Technology and Society
Institute for International Studies,

Stanford University

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Andy Neff
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Neal Lesh
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