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SUMMARY:Cyberspace - Taming the Wild West
DESCRIPTION:Featuring John Savage\, Brown University\nHosted by: James Ston
	e\nPoster: http://physics.bu.edu/posters/2010_Fall/04_Savage.pdf\n\nPart of
	 the Physics Department Colloquia Series.\n\nAbstract:\nCyberspace often lo
	oks like the Wild West. Hackers attack at will\, take control of territory 
	(botnets)\, and generally act with impunity. Unfortunately\, there is much 
	more at risk in cyberspace than in a small Wild West town. Important parts 
	of our national infrastructure can be severely damaged and significant port
	ions of our national wealth can be stolen or degraded. In this talk I will 
	give an overview of the problems we face and highlight steps that can and h
	ave been taken to address them.\n\nDr. John E. Savage earned his PhD in Ele
	ctrical Engineering at MIT in 1965 specializing in coding and information t
	heory. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1965 and the faculty of the Division 
	of Engineering at Brown University in 1967. In 1979 he co-founded the Depar
	tment of Computer Science at Brown and served as its second chair from 1985
	 to 1991. By the early 1970s his research interests changed to theoretical 
	computer science. Today they include computational nanotechnology\, cyber s
	ecurity\, the performance of multicore chips\, and reliable computing with 
	unreliable elements. He was awarded Fulbright-Hays Research Award and a Gug
	genheim Fellowship in 1973.  He is a Fellow of AAAS and ACM and a Life Fell
	ow of IEEE. During the 2010 academic year he served in the U.S. State Depar
	tment as a Jefferson Science Fellow.
LOCATION:SCI 107\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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