【BAYES COFFEE HOUSE Future Informatics Talks】Trustworthiness in Systems and Platforms
Professor Jon Crowcroft of the University of Cambridge will present for the Bayes Coffee House Future Informatics Talks both in-person and virtually. Below are the talk’s details.
Title: Trustworthiness in Systems and Platforms
Speaker: Professor Jon Crowcroft
When: 09/18(Wed) 12:00-13:00 (UTC+01:00)London
Where: Informatics Forum G07
Registration: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/D8MKWE/
External: https://app.huawei.com/wmeeting/join/98108233/pzyLUiNRrMlnRD1XleLWFUIKKSTihZnl0
Meeting ID: 98108233
Passcode: 693876
Abstract: Why should we believe in a software system or platform? What factors lead us to understand what it does, what it will not do, and why do we have confidence in those explaners, whether technological or human? In this talk, I’ll discuss the challenges of our dependence on the digital world, and what we should be doing about it.
The starting point for this is our project on the deceptively simple area of digital identity, but I’ll go as far up the stack as necessary, possibly touching on what it is about AI that makes it particularly problematic.
Project: https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-projects/trustworthy-digital-infrastructure-identity-systems
Bio: Jon Crowcroft has been the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Laboratory since October 2001. He has worked in the area of Internet support for multimedia communications for over 30 years. Three main topics of interest have been scalable multicast routing, practical approaches to traffic management, and the design of deployable end-to-end protocols. Current active research areas are Opportunistic Communications, Social Networks, Privacy Preserving Analytics, and techniques and algorithms to scale infrastructure-free mobile systems. He leans towards a “build and learn” paradigm for research.
From 2016-2018, he was Programm Chair at the Turing, the UK’s national Data Science and AI Institute, and is now researcher-at-large there. He graduated in Physics from Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 1979, gained an MSc in Computing in 1981 and PhD in 1993, both from UCL. He is a Fellow the Royal Society, a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the IET and the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the IEEE.
He likes teaching, and has published a few books based on learning materials.
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