[eas_cs_seminars] Seminar on Friday 20/01

[Luca Rossi]

Hi all,

This is just a reminder of today's seminar, which will take place in MB146
at 2pm. 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".

The talk will be in *MB146 from 2pm to 3pm*.

See below for more details on the talk.

Best,
Luca

On 12 January 2017 at 17:08, Luca Rossi <l.rossi at aston.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
> ===
>
> 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/>
>



-- 
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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