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SUMMARY:Of Apples and Butterflies:  Determinism\, Chaos and the Great Inte
 rconnectedness of Everything - Colin Williams\, SBL (Software Box Ltd)
DTSTART:20141023T173000Z
DTEND:20141023T190000Z
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CONTACT:Tim Wilkinson
DESCRIPTION:This talk will open an exploration of what is coming to pass a
 s the computing systems constructed on the deterministic assumptions of th
 e twentieth century collide with the second epoch of computing and the ind
 eterminacies of the Information Age.\n\nLargely unknowingly\, we owe our m
 odern usage of the term cyber to Norbert Wiener and his 1948 work “Cyber
 netics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine”. In 
 “The Human Use of Human Beings”\, Wiener’s 1954 popularisation of th
 e first text\, his preface\, under the title “The Idea of a Contingent U
 niverse”\, offers the view that the fundamentally predictive philosophic
 al basis of Newtonian physics is confounded by the essential nature of the
  systems he coined the term Cybernetics to describe.\n\nFor Wiener\, Cyber
 netics was the name of the new science required to enable the study and co
 mprehension of volition\, the efficacy of intent and the agency of will in
  systems where cause and effect have ceased to have any direct or linear r
 elationship.  This talk is about cybernetics.   \n\nColin Williams joined 
 SBL (Software Box Ltd) in 1995\, initially in the capacity of MoD contract
  manager. Colin leads the SBL team that organises the annual Information A
 ssurance Practitioners Event in York on behalf of GCHQ.\n\nColin regularly
  speaks\, consults and writes on matters to do with Information Assurance\
 , cyber security\, business development and enterprise level software proc
 urement\, to public sector audiences and clients at home and abroad. Curre
 nt areas of focus include the development of an interdisciplinary approach
  to Information Assurance and cyber protection\; the creation and developm
 ent of new forms of collaboration between government\, industry and academ
 ia\; and\, the development of new economic and business models for IT\, In
 formation Assurance and cyber protection in the context of twenty first ce
 ntury computing.\n\nColin holds a BA and MA in History 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 Council Community of I
 nterest and in November 2011 was appointed Visiting Lecturer at the Cyber 
 Security Centre at De Montfort University.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 0\, University of Cambridge Engineering Departmen
 t\, Trumpington Street\, Cambridge
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