IP: Information Warfare Seminar - Tue 10/17

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

[ If any IPer is going maybe they could send me a summary
of their reactions for IP djf]
                "Third Tuesdays" Seminar - October 17, 1995


        Institute for Computer & Telecommunications Systems Policy


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                        Tuesday, October 17, 1995
                                4-6 p.m.


                       Room 413-414 Marvin Center
                     21st & H St. NW, Washington, DC


               INFORMATION WARFARE:  HACKERS AND CRACKERS
                      AND THE PROJECTION OF POWER


                     Speaker:  John I. Alger, Ph.D.
            Dean, School of Information Warfare and Strategy
                 National Defense University, Ft. McNair


                   Discussant:  William Caeilli, Ph.D.
                   Head, School of Data Communications
         Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia




Summary
Since the Gulf War, the Department of Defense has increasingly
committed manpower, dollars, and intellectual energy to understanding
the implications of information as an element of power.  New
definitions have resulted.  New organizations have emerged -- in
spite of downsizing.  New curriculums have been developed.  New ideas
of competition and conflict are challenging traditional concepts of
war and peace.  At the center of these changes lies the concept of
Information War.  This  presentation presents an overview of  current
Information Warfare initiatives in the Department of Defense and
assesses whether Information Warfare is a passing fantasy
romanticized by the hackers and crackers of cyberspace or a unifying
concept for conflict in the Twenty-first Century.


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                 1995-96 "Third Tuesdays" Seminar Series:
        "Interdisciplinary Aspects of the Electronic Superhighway"


                      Free and Open to the Public




        Funding for this program has been provided in part by the
                      National Science Foundation