Boston and Phoenix Chapters of IEEE Computer Society and GBC/ACM 7:00 PM, Thursday, 9 January 2025 MIT Room 32-G449 (Kiva) and online via Zoom AI and Trust Bruce Schneier Please register in advance for this seminar even if you plan to attend in person at https://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/7417341053477/WN_CYgexNC-Ssmbzi0gRF234Q After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Indicate on the registration form if you plan to attend in person. This will help us determine whether the room is close to reaching capacity. We plan to serve light refreshments (probably pizza) before the talk startimng at around 6:30 pm. Letting us know you will come in person will help us determine how much pizza to order. We may make some auxiliary material such as slides and access to the recording available after the seminar to people who have registered. Abstract: AI and Trust: Trusting a friend and trusting a service are fundamentally different. The former is personal and intimate, while the latter is impersonal and can scale to all of human society. The companies behind the current generative AI systems are poised to exploit that difference. Their intimate conversational nature will cause us to think of them as friends when they are actually services, and trusted confidents when they will actually be working against us. Like much of the internet, these systems will collect our personal data behind our backs and try to manipulate our behavior. Enabling trust in AI systems will require two things. The first are foundation models that are not controlled by corporations and the profit motive. The second is government regulation of the industry. Democratic governance is how we create social trust in our society. Bio: Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by the Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books -- including A Hacker's Mind -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter Crypto-Gram and blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a faculty affiliate at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at HKS, a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow, and an advisory board member of EPIC and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc. This joint meeting of the Boston Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society and GBC/ACM will be hybrid (in person and online), part of getting back to normal after the COVID-19 lockdown. Up-to-date information about this and other talks is available online at https://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/. You can sign up to receive updated status information about this talk and informational emails about future talks at https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieee-cs, our self-administered mailing list. Co-sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society Phoenix C16, GBC/ACM Speaker(s): Bruce Schneier, Room: MIT 32 -G449 (Kiva/Patel conference room), Bldg: Stata Center, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA, Massachusetts, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/461175

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The program is committed to assisting victims of and responders to natural disasters with short-term communications, technology, and power solutions. These temporary emergency relief provisions help people stay connected and ensure access to the help they need. Services include internet, charging stations, and lighting resources. Grayson Randall will serve as the 2025 Chair of the IEEE Humanitarian Technologies Board. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/455265

Dr Yuhong Liu, 2025 IEEE Chair of Computer Society Geographic Activities Committee, will lead the Spring Sessions of “Careers in Technology” with a discussion of her career preparation and a deep dive into her own keen interests and vast experience in research including trustworthy computing and cyber security of emerging applications, such as Internet-of-things, blockchain, and online social media. She has published over 90 papers in prestigious journals and peer-reviewed conferences. Her papers have been selected as the best paper at the IEEE International Conference on Social Computing 2010. Speaker(s): Yuhong Liu, PhD Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/456307

[] Dr. Baek-Young Choi is an internationally leading scholar in the Internet of Things, 5G and beyond, cloud computing, and cybersecurity. Dr. Choi's innovative research has led to numerous Best Paper, Best Poster, and Best Video awards, as well as recognition as conferences’ keynote speaker, Distinguished Lecturer, and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the flagship magazine of the IEEE Society. She has served in many international leadership roles in her technical society, including Chair of IEEE Women in Communications Engineering, Chair of Sister societies, and a technical oversight committee of flagship conferences in IEEE, general chair, and technical program committee chair for multiple international conferences and workshops. Speaker(s): Baek-Young Choi, PhD Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/456310

This event gives students the opportunity to test their plan and design skills in a friendly competition! Each student gets paper and other materials to make the best airplane they can and try to make it go the furthest. Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

The first IEEE CT Section Life Members Affinity Group meeting and distinguished speaker talk & lunch will be held in-person on 31 January 2025 12:00-2:00PM at Casa Mia at Hawthorne, 2421 Berlin Turnpike, Berlin, CT 06037. The distinguished speaker is Philip Rubin, Ph.D., who will give a talk titled "Obama's BRAIN: Behind the curtain of science policy at the White House." This talk will provide an overview of some of the early history of the White House BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies), that was announced by the Obama administration on April 2, 2013, and will also give a sense of how science policy is shaped in our nation. Speaker(s): Philip ***CANCELED*** Casa Mia at the Hawthorne , 2421 Berlin Tpke, Berlin, Connecticut, United States, 06037