Donoho Colloquium: Cybersecurity and CyberWar

The Spring 2014 Donoho Colloquium

• 5:00 PM, Monday, May 5, 2014
• Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall, Dartmouth

A generation ago, "cyberspace" was just a term from science fiction, used to describe the nascent network of computers linking a few university labs. Today, our entire modern way of life, from communication to commerce to conflict, fundamentally depends on the Internet. And the security issues that result challenge literally everyone: politicians wrestling with everything from cybercrime to online freedom; generals protecting the nation from new forms of attack, while planning new cyberwars; business executives defending firms from once unimaginable threats, and looking to make money off of them; lawyers and ethicists building new frameworks for right and wrong. Most of all, cybersecurity issues affect us as individuals. We face new questions in everything from our rights and responsibilities as citizens of both the online and real world to simply how to protect ourselves and our families from a new type of danger. And, yet there is perhaps no issue that has grown so important, so quickly, and that touches so many, that remains so poorly understood.

Biographical note

Peter W. Singer is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution. Singer's focus is on changes in global security and technology. He is the author of multiple award-winning books on topics that range from private military firms to drones, and, most recently, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Should Know, which has been described by the Chairman of Google as "an essential read" and by the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO as "the most approachable and readable book ever written on the cyber world." He has been named by the Smithsonian Institution as one of the "leading innovators in the nation," by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in defense issues, and by Foreign Policy Magazine to their Top 100 Global Thinkers List. The founder of a technology and entertainment consulting firm, NeoLuddite, he has advised Warner Brothers, Dreamworks, Legendary, Universal, HBO, and the video game series "Call of Duty," the best-selling entertainment project in history.