IP: FOR WASHINGTON DC IPers ONLY -- Seminar announcement

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

> 1997-98 'Third Tuesdays' Seminar Series=20
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 Supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation=20
Division of Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure in=20
 cooperation with the George Washington University=20
 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science=20
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 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC=20
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 Tuesday, November 18, 1997 4-6 p.m.=20
 Room 405 Marvin Center, 21st & H St. NW, Washington, DC=20
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TITLE: How I learned to love the CIA and Started Worrying=20
 about Infrastructure Protection=20
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SPEAKER: MARY CULNAN, Commissioner, President's Commission on Critical=20
 Infrastructure Protection=20
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COMMENTATORS: Alan Davidson, Center for Democracy and Technology=20
 Peter Wilson, RAND Corporation=20
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In October 1997, the President's Commission on Critical=20
Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP) sent its final report to=20
the White House. Critical infrastructures represent the nation's=20
"life support systems" and include information and communications,=20
banking and finance, energy, transportation and vital human=20
services. The Commission's mission was to assess the scope and=20
nature of physical and cyber threats and vulnerabilities for these=20
infrastructures, identify legal and policy issues that are raised=20
by infrastructure assurance, and propose recommendations and an=20
implementation strategy. The presentation will describe the=20
factors that led to the creation of the PCCIP, the Commission's=20
process, and its findings and recommendations.=20
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For more information please visit CPI web site=20
<http://www.cpi.seas.gwu.edu/activities/seminars>http://www.cpi.seas.gwu.ed
u/activities/seminars=20
or call (202) 994-5CPI=20
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