[eas_cs_seminars] Seminar on Friday 20/01

[Luca Rossi]

Dear all,

On Friday the 20th Dr. Steve Marsh (University of Ontario Institute of
Technology) will give a talk titled "Slow Computing, Wisdom, and ideas for
Comfort-able Answers to Fake News".

This will take place in MB146 from 2pm to 3pm. Please *note the unusual
time and location*.

More information can be found below.

Best,
Luca

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Title:
Slow Computing, Wisdom, and ideas for Comfort-able Answers to Fake News

Speaker:
Steve Marsh, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Abstract:
Remember Flash Crashes? Computing is fast, by default. That's good, but
there are times when it does to slow down to the speed of thought and
consider what the fast decisions might result in, not far down the line.
More, it behooves us to think more about the people in the system, and
how they can help the system be 'more'. This idea, the concept of Slow
Computing, grew from discussions at Dagstuhl about a year ago, and
gradually began to contribute to explorations of Wisdom in computational
systems. Wisdom, the capacity for contextually guided rational and
correct thought in unfamiliar situations, seems exactly the kind of
thing we need to bring our computational systems into the human world,
where they are going to have to be. This talk presents our thoughts and
research on Slow Computing and Wisdom before diving into the related
concepts of Device Comfort and Computational Trust, and ends with a look
at how thinking more slowly and integrating and comfort and trust
reasoning into information systems might just help us in some of the
more pressing challenges of social media.


Bio:
Dr. Marsh is a Trust Scientist and a thought leader in the phenomenon of
trust for computational systems. His PhD was a seminal work that
introduced the first formalization of the phenomenon of trust (the
concept of computational trust), and applied it to multi-agent systems.
As a milestone in trust research, it brought together disparate
disciplines and attempted to make sense of a vital phenomenon in human
and artificial societies, and is still widely referenced today, being in
the top tenth of one percent of Citeseerx's most cited articles in
computer science. Dr. Marsh's current work builds extensively on this
model, applying it to network security, critical infrastructure
protection, and mobile-device security.

Prior to working at UOIT, Dr. Marsh worked for 16 years in Government of
Canada research labs: NRC Canada from 1996 to 2009, and CRC Canada from
2009 to 2012. His research covered areas as diverse (and linked) as:

    - advanced collaborative environments
    - information flow
    - network secure management
    - people-oriented technologies
    - trust and comfort

Before that, he was a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University
of Stirling in Scotland. Dr. Marsh has also been a visiting scholar at
the University of Glasgow and Northumbria University in the U.K.

-- 
Luca Rossi

Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Aston University
Web: http://www.cs.aston.ac.uk/~rossil/ <http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rossil/>
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