[Pl-seminar] [Fwd: Jake Beal] ** DANGEROUS IDEAS SEMINAR ** Wednesday, March 12th, 1pm, 8th floor playroom (NE43)

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Subject: ** DANGEROUS IDEAS SEMINAR ** Wednesday, March 12th, 1pm, 8th floor playroom (NE43)
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:25:51 -0500

  ** Warning: Dangerous Ideas **        ** Warning: Dangerous Ideas **

                       DANGEROUS IDEAS SEMINAR

		           March 12, 2003
			    1:00pm-2:00pm
		      NE43 - 8th Floor Playroom

			  Speaking this week:

                            Howie Shrobe
                    Principal Research Scientist
                          MIT AI Laboratory

Why I Hate Computers
(and what to do about it)

Abstract:
Today's computer systems are brittle, lack transparency, are vulnerable
to attack and require an ever increasing investment just to stay up to
date.  If a person behaved in the way your computer did, you would
consider him or her to be an abitrary capricious jerk with a broken
social interface.  

Furthermore, things used to be better.

There are many aspects to this problem, but in this talk I'd like to
focus on the questions of what can we do to make computers visbily
controllable (a phrase coined by DARPA Program Manager, Lee Badger) and
robust to attack.  In particular, I'll try to show how ideas that go
back to the MIT Lisp Machine project and to the Programmer's Apprentice
project might have a lot to say about how to build a civil computer. 


For more information on DIS, email dangerous-minds at ai.mit.edu
or check out the web page: http://www.ai.mit.edu/lab/dangerous-ideas/


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