Inferno: Fw: [nylug-announce] [nylug-talk] Tuesday 24 April 2001: Big Meeting on Privacy (fwd)

[Jim Choate]

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> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 01:04:40 -0400 (EDT)
> To: nylug-talk at electriclichen.com
> Cc: Jay Sulzberger <jays at panix.com>
> Subject: [nylug-talk] Tuesday 24 April 2001: Big Meeting on Privacy
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> <blockquote
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>  From: galil at news.cs.columbia.edu (Zvi Galil)
>  Newsgroups: cs.bboard,columbia.general.bboard,nyc.seminars
>  Subject: please mark your calendars
>  Date: 4 Apr 2001 13:33:27 -0400
>  Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
>  Reply-To: theory-group-request at cs.columbia.edu
>
>
> 2001 Marconi Forum on Internet Privacy
> Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
>
> Privacy Under Assault: Can Encryption Safeguard the Internet?
>
> Tuesday, April 24, 2001
> International Marconi Day
> 4-6 p.m.
> Reception to follow
> Davis Auditorium of the Schapiro Center
> for Engineering and Physcical Science Research
> Columbia University
> New York, N.Y.
>
> Web users want assurances that their communications or e-commerce will
> remain private without having to worry that their ideas, or even their
> identities, are stolen and every detail of their lives will be laid bare
> while others profit from personal data collection.
>
> Digital threats arise from all quarters, including corporations and
> marketing firms, potential employers and credit agencies, health and
> government establishments, as well as outright snoopers and
> opportunists. Can improved technologies protect privacy on the Internet
> or is privacy a casualty of the digital age?
>
> The Marconi Forum brings together leading figures from technology,
> government, journalism, business and law to examine how-- or whether--
> our right to privacy can be secured from digital incursions.
>
> Participants are :
>
> Zvi Galil, Moderator
> Dean, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
> expert on encryption
>
> Whitfield Diffie
> Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems
> co-inventor, public key cryptography
> 2000 Marconi Fellow
>
> Michael Rabin
> Professor of Computer Science
> Harvard University
> developed code based on "vanishing" key
>
> John Podesta
> White House Chief of Staff
> Clinton Administration
> Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University
> Law Center
>
> Steven Levy
> Author, Crypto, Spring 2001
> Senior Editor, Technology, Newsweek
>
> Shari Steele
> Excutive Director
> Electronic Privacy Association
> advocate for civil liberties in online world
>
> Eli Noam
> Professor, Columbia Business School
> Director, Columbia Institute for
> for Tele-information
> authority on telecommunications strategy
> and policy
>
> Sponsored by the Marconi Foundation, The Fu Foundation
> School of Engineering and Applied Science
> Columbia University
>
> in collaboration with
> The Center for New Media, Columbia Graduate School
> of Journalism
>
> Columbia Institute for Tele-Information,
> Columbia Business School
>
> </blockquote>
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