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CATEGORIES:IET Cambridge Network - Lectures
SUMMARY:Of Apples and Butterflies:  Determinism\, Chaos an
 d the Great Interconnectedness of Everything - Col
 in Williams\, SBL (Software Box Ltd)
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20141023T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20141023T200000
UID:TALK53724AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/53724
DESCRIPTION:This talk will open an exploration of what is comi
 ng to pass as the computing systems constructed on
  the deterministic assumptions of the twentieth ce
 ntury collide with the second epoch of computing a
 nd the indeterminacies of the Information Age.\n\n
 Largely unknowingly\, we owe our modern usage of t
 he term cyber to Norbert Wiener and his 1948 work 
 “Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the 
 Animal and the Machine”. In “The Human Use of Huma
 n Beings”\, Wiener’s 1954 popularisation of the fi
 rst text\, his preface\, under the title “The Idea
  of a Contingent Universe”\, offers the view that 
 the fundamentally predictive philosophical basis o
 f Newtonian physics is confounded by the essential
  nature of the systems he coined the term Cybernet
 ics to describe.\n\nFor Wiener\, Cybernetics was t
 he name of the new science required to enable the 
 study and comprehension of volition\, the efficacy
  of intent and the agency of will in systems where
  cause and effect have ceased to have any direct o
 r linear relationship.  This talk is about cyberne
 tics.   \n\nColin Williams joined SBL (Software Bo
 x Ltd) in 1995\, initially in the capacity of MoD 
 contract manager. Colin leads the SBL team that or
 ganises the annual Information Assurance Practitio
 ners Event in York on behalf of GCHQ.\n\nColin reg
 ularly speaks\, consults and writes on matters to 
 do with Information Assurance\, cyber security\, b
 usiness development and enterprise level software 
 procurement\, to public sector audiences and clien
 ts at home and abroad. Current areas of focus incl
 ude the development of an interdisciplinary approa
 ch to Information Assurance and cyber protection\;
  the creation and development of new forms of coll
 aboration between government\, industry and academ
 ia\; and\, the development of new economic and bus
 iness models for IT\, Information Assurance and cy
 ber protection in the context of twenty first cent
 ury computing.\n\nColin holds a BA and MA in Histo
 ry from the University of York\, England\, and is 
 a Fellow of the Institute of Directors. He is also
  a member of the Information Assurance Advisory Co
 uncil Community of Interest and in November 2011 w
 as appointed Visiting Lecturer at the Cyber Securi
 ty Centre at De Montfort University.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 0\, University of Cambridge Engine
 ering Department\, Trumpington Street\, Cambridge
CONTACT:Tim Wilkinson
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