---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:08:05 -0400 From: Any Mouse Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Club Inferno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Inferno: Fw: [nylug-announce] [nylug-talk] Tuesday 24 April 2001: Big Meeting on Privacy (fwd) ----- Original Message ----- To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 9:37 AM Subject: [nylug-announce] [nylug-talk] Tuesday 24 April 2001: Big Meeting on Privacy (fwd) > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 01:04:40 -0400 (EDT) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [nylug-talk] Tuesday 24 April 2001: Big Meeting on Privacy > > > <blockquote > edit-level="light"> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zvi Galil) > Newsgroups: cs.bboard,columbia.general.bboard,nyc.seminars > Subject: please mark your calendars > Date: 4 Apr 2001 13:33:27 -0400 > Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 2001 Marconi Forum on Internet Privacy > Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science > > Privacy Under Assault: Can Encryption Safeguard the Internet? > > Tuesday, April 24, 2001 > International Marconi Day > 4-6 p.m. > Reception to follow > Davis Auditorium of the Schapiro Center > for Engineering and Physcical Science Research > Columbia University > New York, N.Y. > > Web users want assurances that their communications or e-commerce will > remain private without having to worry that their ideas, or even their > identities, are stolen and every detail of their lives will be laid bare > while others profit from personal data collection. > > Digital threats arise from all quarters, including corporations and > marketing firms, potential employers and credit agencies, health and > government establishments, as well as outright snoopers and > opportunists. Can improved technologies protect privacy on the Internet > or is privacy a casualty of the digital age? > > The Marconi Forum brings together leading figures from technology, > government, journalism, business and law to examine how-- or whether-- > our right to privacy can be secured from digital incursions. > > Participants are : > > Zvi Galil, Moderator > Dean, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science > expert on encryption > > Whitfield Diffie > Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems > co-inventor, public key cryptography > 2000 Marconi Fellow > > Michael Rabin > Professor of Computer Science > Harvard University > developed code based on "vanishing" key > > John Podesta > White House Chief of Staff > Clinton Administration > Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University > Law Center > > Steven Levy > Author, Crypto, Spring 2001 > Senior Editor, Technology, Newsweek > > Shari Steele > Excutive Director > Electronic Privacy Association > advocate for civil liberties in online world > > Eli Noam > Professor, Columbia Business School > Director, Columbia Institute for > for Tele-information > authority on telecommunications strategy > and policy > > Sponsored by the Marconi Foundation, The Fu Foundation > School of Engineering and Applied Science > Columbia University > > in collaboration with > The Center for New Media, Columbia Graduate School > of Journalism > > Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, > Columbia Business School > > </blockquote> > >
