Audio seminars at Anglia Ruskin University
Anglia Ruskin is running a series of evening events on the theme of audio technology. The next event is on 17th February, then 3rd March and 17th March.
All are welcome, but you are kindly requested to register with the event organiser if you wish to attend. Further details on the event poster:
The Dependability of Complex Socio-Technical Systems
6:30pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Cambridge
Since the invention of agriculture, we humans been organising large systems - early examples being the Roman army and the Chinese civil service. But the large systems of today are turning into something qualitatively different, thanks to the interaction of many people with complex software and global scale. Even a system owned by one company, such as Facebook, may have users from countries that are at war with each other; and many systems, from Europe's electricity grid to the international payments network and the Internet itself, are not under the control of any single company or even government. Our civilisation depends on this infrastructure, and there's been nothing like it before. The recent hiccups in the international credit system might prompt us to ask what we know about the dependability of complex socio-technical systems, and how this understanding might be improved.
Ross Anderson is Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge. He is one of the founders of a vigorously-growing new academic discipline, the economics of information security. Ross was also a seminal contributor to peer-to-peer systems, hardware tamper-resistance, emission security, copyright marking, and the robustness of application programming interfaces. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IET and the IMA. He also wrote the standard textbook "Security Engineering - a Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems".
Biofuels East 2010 Conference
Wednesday 17 March, Churchill College, Cambridge
For more information and to register online please visit http://renewableseast.eventhq.co.uk/biofuelseast
Contribution to costs: £55 for industry and £45 for academia. A limited number of exhibition stands are available for a small cost.
Registration opens at 09.00 am; presentations start at 10:00am. There will be a break at 11:50am; with lunch for delegates at 13:30am. The presentations finish at 17:10 pm.
Christmas Lecture: Science and the Media - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Thursday 10th December, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge
WOW - What a great evening! Simon gave us a very entertaining talk.
For further information about his work please visit his website at http://www.simonsingh.net/
As science impacts on society more than ever before, it is crucial that media reporting is accurate, insightful and informative, rather than distorted, scaremongering and sensationalist. Simon Singh examines TV and print journalism to discuss the forces at work behind the scenes.
After completing a PhD in particle physics at Cambridge, Simon Singh joined the BBC science department and worked on 'Tomorrow's World' and 'Horizon' - his documentary about Fermat's Last Theorem won a BAFTA in 1996. In 1997 he authored 'Fermat's Last Theorem', the first book about mathematics to become a No.1 bestseller in the UK. Since then he has published 'The Code Book', 'Big Bang' and 'Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial'. He has also presented 'Mind Games' on BBC4 and 'Five Numbers' and 'Five Particles' on BBC Radio 4.