-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [The Harvard Club is now "business casual". No more jackets and ties, but see below for details. While it lasts, anyway. Since last year's dot-bomb, the suit-ratio in the main dining room has been asymptotically approaching unity. :-). --RAH] The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Jean Camp, Kennedy School of Government Trust and Risk in Digital Commerce Tuesday, October 2nd, 2001 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA Trust is the critical variable in Internet Commerce. Trust requirements differentiate Internet from other forms of commerce. Trust has three primary components: reliability, security, and privacy. There is trust in routing, trust in encryption, and trust in applications. The layers of trust, the areas of risk, the power of cryptography, and the limits to security are all explained for the general audience in this text. When a business obtains customer data, the customer trusts that the data are used to improve service for her, and not used in a manner that harms her. The business is not necessarily violating privacy but is certainly requiring some extension of trust from the customer. This talk examines that trust relationship and examines the types of data that are most immediately useful but the least used. This talk contains explanations of fault tolerance and the components of reliability. Most transactions today are not fault tolerant. If a transaction is not reliable (in the sense of being fault tolerant) someone is at risk when the transaction fails. It is therefore important to be able to read a transaction-based Internet commerce standard and understand from that the risks involved in using the standard. Jean Camp is an Assistant Professor at the Kennedy School of Government, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and an elected Director of CPSR. Prof. Camp's core interest is in the interaction of technology, society, and the economy. Her interest usually fits within the design for values rubric or under the electronic civil liberties umbrella. It was this interest that led Prof. Camp from graduate electrical engineering research in North Carolina to the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon, and it remained her core research interest at Sandia National Laboratories, and continues at the Kennedy School. Prof. Camp's expertise are in Internet commerce and design for values. She is the author of "Trust and Risk in Internet Commerce" (2000, MIT Press). She is the author of more than thirty peer-reviewed publications on technical issues of social importance (e.g., privacy, reliability) and social issues with critical technical elements (e.g., content selection). This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, October 2nd, 2001, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $37.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, A/V hardware if necessary, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club has relaxed its dress code, which is now "business casual", meaning no sneakers or jeans. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your meal if the Club finds you in violation of what's left of its dress code. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, September 29th, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will be returned. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $37.50. Please include your e-mail address so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (we've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: November TBA December TBA January TBA As you can see, :-), we are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, are a principal in digital commerce, and would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Committee, care of Robert Hettinga, <mailto: rah@shipwright.com>. For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto: majordomo@reservoir.com> . 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