<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>This is just a reminder of today's seminar, which will take place in MB146 at 2pm. <span style="font-size:12.8px">Dr. </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Steve Marsh (University of Ontario Institute of Technology) will give a talk titled "</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Slow Computing, Wisdom, and ideas for Comfort-able Answers to Fake News".</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">The talk will be in <b>MB146 from 2pm to 3pm</b>.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">See below for more details on the talk.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Best,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Luca</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 January 2017 at 17:08, Luca Rossi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:l.rossi@aston.ac.uk" target="_blank">l.rossi@aston.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>On Friday the 20th Dr. <span style="font-size:12.8px">Steve Marsh (University of Ontario Institute of Technology) will give a talk titled "</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Slow Computing, Wisdom, and ideas for Comfort-able Answers to Fake News".</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">This will take place in MB146 from 2pm to 3pm. Please <b>note the unusual time and location</b>.</span></div><div><br></div><div>More information can be found below.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Luca</div><div><br></div><div>===</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Title:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Slow Computing, Wisdom, and ideas for Comfort-able Answers to Fake News</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Speaker:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Steve Marsh, University of Ontario Institute of Technology</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Abstract:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Remember Flash Crashes? Computing is fast, by default. That's good, but</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">there are times when it does to slow down to the speed of thought and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">consider what the fast decisions might result in, not far down the line.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">More, it behooves us to think more about the people in the system, and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">how they can help the system be 'more'. This idea, the concept of Slow</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Computing, grew from discussions at Dagstuhl about a year ago, and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">gradually began to contribute to explorations of Wisdom in computational</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">systems. Wisdom, the capacity for contextually guided rational and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">correct thought in unfamiliar situations, seems exactly the kind of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">thing we need to bring our computational systems into the human world,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">where they are going to have to be. This talk presents our thoughts and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">research on Slow Computing and Wisdom before diving into the related</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">concepts of Device Comfort and Computational Trust, and ends with a look</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">at how thinking more slowly and integrating and comfort and trust</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">reasoning into information systems might just help us in some of the</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">more pressing challenges of social media.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Bio:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dr. Marsh is a Trust Scientist and a thought leader in the phenomenon of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">trust for computational systems. His PhD was a seminal work that</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">introduced the first formalization of the phenomenon of trust (the</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">concept of computational trust), and applied it to multi-agent systems.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">As a milestone in trust research, it brought together disparate</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">disciplines and attempted to make sense of a vital phenomenon in human</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">and artificial societies, and is still widely referenced today, being in</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">the top tenth of one percent of Citeseerx's most cited articles in</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">computer science. Dr. Marsh's current work builds extensively on this</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">model, applying it to network security, critical infrastructure</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">protection, and mobile-device security.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Prior to working at UOIT, Dr. Marsh worked for 16 years in Government of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Canada research labs: NRC Canada from 1996 to 2009, and CRC Canada from</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">2009 to 2012. His research covered areas as diverse (and linked) as:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> - advanced collaborative environments</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> - information flow</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> - network secure management</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> - people-oriented technologies</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> - trust and comfort</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Before that, he was a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">of Stirling in Scotland. Dr. Marsh has also been a visiting scholar at</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">the University of Glasgow and Northumbria University in the U.K.</span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_369909886153909549gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Luca Rossi</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Lecturer in Computer Science</div><div dir="ltr">School of Engineering and Applied Science</div><div dir="ltr">Aston University</div><div dir="ltr">Web: <a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rossil/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.aston.ac.<wbr>uk/~rossil/</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Luca Rossi</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Lecturer in Computer Science</div><div dir="ltr">School of Engineering and Applied Science</div><div dir="ltr">Aston University</div><div dir="ltr">Web: <a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rossil/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.aston.ac.uk/~rossil/</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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