February 5-6, 2001 in Austin, TX
Cycorp, Inc.
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• Privacy, trust and
identity in cyberspace
• Intrusion detection and prevention
• Transactional risk
• Information warfare
• Denial-of-service attacks
• The culture of hacking
• Risk management
• Digital asset protection
• Uncertainty in software design
• Theft of trade secrets
• Critical infrastructure protection
Technology is changing our
understanding of risk management in profound ways,
not always immediately
obvious. In this meeting, we examine two rapidly evolving
and intertwined themes in risk management – protecting
digital assets and the management of uncertainty.
Computer
and network security attracts headlines whenever
a new virus strikes or when a notorious hacker is
caught.
But security policy is a far more complex range of
issues than just preventing intruders. It's
now about enabling a robust e-business infrastructure,
establishing payment and identity structures, and
the
protection of digital rights. In each case, we need
to protect ourselves against the "bad guys," while
making it easier to do business with everyone else.
The
structure of risk in transactions and markets is
constantly being refined by technological influences,
including free distribution of real-time information,
improved market liquidity, faster payment and credit
mechanisms, reduced time premiums and the creation
of new intermediaries. All are factors that eliminate
some portion of uncertainty in transactions and
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Since 1984, Dr. Doug Lenat
and his Austin-based team have been building the
world's largest
knowledge base. Known as "Cyc," it
spans all of human common sense, and Cycorp has been
working out techniques to let machines reason efficiently
with it. Dr. Lenat generated a great deal of
excitement and interest over this when he introduced
Cyc to at Vanguard's December 1999 conference, "Knowledge,
Search and Understanding."
Now, just over a year later, Vanguard members will
have a rare opportunity to visit the Cycorp Laboratory
and see a number of demonstrations using this exciting
technology.
Cycorp's technology will allow us to engage
Cyc in an English dialogue, try to explain a new
concept to it, help the system read through a web
page, and ask it questions to make sure it understands
the content. At another station, we will answer
questions about any inconsistencies Cyc notices in
its knowledge base. Additionally, we will teach
Cyc alternate ways to rephrase a single sentence,
along with the subtle changes in emphasis that those
alternatives connote. We will also help the
system clarify ambiguities and overspecializations
in its knowledge base that it brings to our attention:
e.g., "Someone has told me that sterilization
kills anthrax; does it kill all bacteria?"
Join us for a most extraordinary day!
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James Adams, Co-founder
and CEO, iDEFENSE
Bill Cheswick, Research
Scientist, Bell Labs
Austin Hill, Co-founder
and President of Zero-Knowledge Systems
Pete Murphy, Senior Vice
President, Vulnerability Management, Bank of America
Marc Rotenberg, Executive
Director of Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Bruce Schneier, Founder
and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane Internet Security,
Inc.
Alex Stonkus, President
and Chief Executive Officer, Actrade Financial Technologies
Ltd.
Jim Taylor, Consultant and
Author (with Watts Wacker), The 500 Year Delta, and
formerly Senior Vice President
and Chief Marketing Officer, Gateway Corporation
John P.L. Woodward, Director
of Information Warfare, The MITRE Corporation
Karen Worstell, Vice President,
The Trust Group, AtomicTangerine
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