BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20170312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20171105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170318T054212Z UID:89B02135-FD6C-11E6-A7C6-0050568D7F66 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170315T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170315T203000 DESCRIPTION:"System Fragility: Are the Potential Societal Consequences Incr easing (and What Can Be Done About It?)"\n\nThe slides for this meeting ca n be found at http://sites.ieee.org/richmond/files/2017/03/RNCharette-IEEE -CS-Chapter-Presentation-Final-Rev-1-15-March-2015.pptx.\n\nIf you were on e of the half million passengers who had their Delta and Southwest Airline s travel plans disrupted over the summer of 2016\, you probably don’t ne ed to be told about the fragility of computer and communications systems. The same holds true for the hundreds of thousands of customers of Telstra\ , Australia’s telecommunications giant\, who suffered seven major outage s last year affecting everything from their Internet to mobile services. I t holds equally\, too\, for the over eighty-thousand―or one in four―fe deral Canadian government workers who have been paid too much\, or too lit tle\, or not at all since a year ago February 23rd after the introduction of a new payroll system. The 37 million Americans who were informed last y ear that their personal information had been compromised in nearly 1\,100 confirmed data breaches probably don’t need reminding\, either.\n\nAs in formation and communications technology (ICT) systems have grown in capabi lity\, they have also grown in complexity\, as have their resultant risks —financial\, social\, and political as well as technological. For instan ce\, as airline ICT troubles continue unabated\, several members of Congre ss are demanding that airlines ensure that their “IT systems are both re liable and resilient\,” implying that unpleasant legislation might follo w if more outages occur. Some technologists and scientists\, such as Samue l Arbesman in his recently published book\, [Overcomplicated: Technology a t the Limits of Comprehension](http://www.arbesman.net/overcomplicated/)\, even argue that advances in digitalization have reached a point that whil e simplifying our daily existence\, they have also “made governing our l ives incomprehensible\, unpredictable\, and overcomplicated.” If this is true today\, what about tomorrow when “smart machines” able to perfor m the majority of today’s jobs\, drive vehicles\, fight wars\, control t he electrical and banking systems\, etc.\, proliferate? What happens when they go wrong?\n\nIn this wide-ranging talk\, Robert N. Charette\, co-edit or of IEEE Computer magazine’s new “Aftershock” column and a long-ti me award winning IEEE Spectrum magazine contributing editor and editor of its “[Risk Factor](http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/riskfactor)” blog\, w ill be discussing the increasing fragility of ICT systems\, their potentia l impacts on society\, and what might be able to be done to manage their r isks while still reaping their rewards. During his talk\, Charette will dr aw on the lessons learned from his study of a decade of global ICT failure s and faults recently published at [IEEE Spectrum Online](http://spectrum. ieee.org/static/lessons-from-a-decade-of-it-failures)\, as well as his exp eriences from a forty-year career in international ICT development and man agement within the computing\, aerospace & defense\, government\, pharmace utical\, telecommunication and utilities industries.\n\nBackground informa tion for topics to be discussed:\n\n“[Why Software Fails](http://spectru m.ieee.org/computing/software/why-software-fails)\,” IEEE Spectrum\, Sep tember 2005.\n\n“[Dying for Data](http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/di agnostics/dying-for-data)\,” IEEE Spectrum\, September 2006.\n\n“[This Car Runs on Code](http://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/systems/this-ca r-runs-on-code)\,” IEEE Spectrum\, February 2009.\n\n“[The Rise of the Robot Warriors](http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/military-robots/the-ris e-of-robot-warriors)\,” IEEE Spectrum\, September 2009.\n\n“[Automated to Death](http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/automated-to-death) \,” IEEE Spectrum\, December 2009.\n\n“[More Cyberattacks or Just More Media Attention?](http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/more-cybera ttacks-or-just-more-media-attention)” IEEE Spectrum\, July 2011.\n\n“[ Technological Unemployment: An Absurd Worry or Valid Concern?](https://www .cutter.com/sites/default/files/itjournal/fulltext/2015/07/itj1507.pdf)” Cutter IT Journal\, July 2015.\n\n“[Lessons from a Decade of IT Failure s](http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/the-staggering-impact-of-it-systems-gon e-wrong)\,” IEEE Spectrum\, October 2015.\n\n“[Dragging Government Leg acy Systems Out of the Shadows](https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2016 /09/mco2016090114.html)\,” IEEE Computer\, September 2016.\n\n“[IT’s Fatal Amnesia](https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/02/mco201702008 6.html)\,” IEEE Computer\, February 2017.\n\nSpeaker(s): Robert Charette \, \, Robert Charette\, \n\nAgenda: \n6:30 pm - 7:00 pm - Social Time / Me als (Details on meal choices can be found at https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ss 3blfsek0k0er/Meal%20Selections%20for%20IEEE%20Computer%20Society%20Meeting .pdf?dl=0.)\n\n7:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Speaker and Q&A\n\n8:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Chapter Business and Future Plans\n\nBldg: Central Rappahannock Regional L ibrary Salem Church Branch\, 2607 Salem Church Rd\, Fredericksburg\, Virgi nia\, United States\, 22407 LOCATION:Bldg: Central Rappahannock Regional Library Salem Church Branch\, 2607 Salem Church Rd\, Fredericksburg\, Virginia\, United States\, 22407 ORGANIZER:allen.jones@ieee.org SEQUENCE:11 SUMMARY:IEEE Computer Society Technical Meeting URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/44176 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>"System Fragility: Are the Potential Socie tal Consequences Increasing (and What Can Be Done About It?)"&nbsp\;</p>\n <p>The slides for this meeting can be found at&nbsp\;<a href="http://sites .ieee.org/richmond/files/2017/03/RNCharette-IEEE-CS-Chapter-Presentation-F inal-Rev-1-15-March-2015.pptx">http://sites.ieee.org/richmond/files/2017/0 3/RNCharette-IEEE-CS-Chapter-Presentation-Final-Rev-1-15-March-2015.pptx</ a>.</p>\n<p>If you were one of the half million passengers who had their D elta and Southwest Airlines travel plans disrupted over the summer of 2016 \, you probably don&rsquo\;t need to be told about the fragility of comput er and communications systems. The same holds true for the hundreds of tho usands of customers of Telstra\, Australia&rsquo\;s telecommunications gia nt\, who suffered seven major outages last year affecting everything from their Internet to mobile services. It holds equally\, too\, for the over e ighty-thousand―or one in four―federal Canadian government workers who have been paid too much\, or too little\, or not at all since a year ago F ebruary <em>23<sup>rd</sup> </em>after the introduction of a new payroll s ystem. The 37 million Americans who were informed last year that their per sonal information had been compromised in nearly 1\,100 confirmed data bre aches probably don&rsquo\;t need reminding\, either.</p>\n<p>As informatio n and communications technology (ICT) systems have grown in capability\, t hey have also grown in complexity\, as have their resultant risks&mdash\;f inancial\, social\, and political as well as technological. For instance\, as airline ICT troubles continue unabated\, several members of Congress a re demanding that airlines ensure that their &ldquo\;IT systems are both r eliable and resilient\,&rdquo\; implying that unpleasant legislation might follow if more outages occur.&nbsp\; Some technologists and scientists\, such as Samuel Arbesman in his recently published book\, <a href="http://w ww.arbesman.net/overcomplicated/"><em>Overcomplicated: Technology at the L imits of Comprehension</em></a>\, even argue that advances in digitalizati on have reached a point that while simplifying our daily existence\, they have also &ldquo\;made governing our lives incomprehensible\, unpredictabl e\, and overcomplicated.&rdquo\; If this is true today\, what about tomorr ow when &ldquo\;smart machines&rdquo\; able to perform the majority of tod ay&rsquo\;s jobs\, drive vehicles\, fight wars\, control the electrical an d banking systems\, etc.\, proliferate? What happens when they go wrong?</ p>\n<p>In this wide-ranging talk\, Robert N. Charette\, co-editor of <em>I EEE Computer</em> magazine&rsquo\;s new &ldquo\;Aftershock&rdquo\; column and a long-time award winning I<em>EEE Spectrum</em> magazine contributing editor and editor of its &ldquo\;<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/r iskfactor">Risk Factor</a>&rdquo\; blog\, will be discussing the increasin g fragility of ICT systems\, their potential impacts on society\, and what might be able to be done to manage their risks while still reaping their rewards. During his talk\, Charette will draw on the lessons learned from his study of a decade of global ICT failures and faults recently published at <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/lessons-from-a-decade-of-it-f ailures"><em>IEEE Spectrum Online</em></a>\, as well as his experiences fr om a forty-year career in international ICT development and management wit hin the computing\, aerospace &amp\; defense\, government\, pharmaceutical \, telecommunication and utilities industries.</p>\n<p><em>Background info rmation for topics to be discussed:</em></p>\n<p>&ldquo\;<a href="http://s pectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/why-software-fails">Why Software Fails </a>\,&rdquo\; IEEE Spectrum\, September 2005.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;&ldquo\;<a h ref="http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/diagnostics/dying-for-data">Dying for Data</a>\,&rdquo\; <em>IEEE Spectrum</em>\, September 2006.</p>\n<p>& ldquo\;<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/systems/this-car-r uns-on-code">This Car Runs on Code</a>\,&rdquo\; <em>IEEE Spectrum</em>\, February 2009.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;&ldquo\;<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/ro botics/military-robots/the-rise-of-robot-warriors">The Rise of the Robot W arriors</a>\,&rdquo\; IEEE Spectrum\, September 2009.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;&ldqu o\;<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/automated-to-death ">Automated to Death</a>\,&rdquo\; <em>IEEE Spectrum</em>\, December 2009. </p>\n<p>&nbsp\;&ldquo\;<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networ ks/more-cyberattacks-or-just-more-media-attention">More Cyberattacks or Ju st More Media Attention?</a>&rdquo\; <em>IEEE Spectrum</em>\, July 2011.</ p>\n<p>&nbsp\;&ldquo\;<a href="https://www.cutter.com/sites/default/files/ itjournal/fulltext/2015/07/itj1507.pdf">Technological Unemployment: An Abs urd Worry or Valid Concern?</a>&rdquo\; <em>Cutter IT Journal</em>\, July 2015.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;&ldquo\;<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/the- staggering-impact-of-it-systems-gone-wrong">Lessons from a Decade of IT Fa ilures</a>\,&rdquo\; <em>IEEE Spectrum</em>\, October 2015.</p>\n<p>&ldquo \;<a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2016/09/mco2016090114.htm l">Dragging Government Legacy Systems Out of the Shadows</a>\,&rdquo\; <em >IEEE Computer</em>\, September 2016.</p>\n<p>&ldquo\;<a href="https://www .computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/02/mco2017020086.html">IT&rsquo\;s Fatal A mnesia</a>\,&rdquo\; <em>IEEE Computer</em>\, February 2017.</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p>6:30 pm - 7:00 pm - Social Time / Meals &nbsp\;(Details on meal choices can be found at&nbsp\;<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ 9ss3blfsek0k0er/Meal%20Selections%20for%20IEEE%20Computer%20Society%20Meet ing.pdf?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ss3blfsek0k0er/Meal%20Selections% 20for%20IEEE%20Computer%20Society%20Meeting.pdf?dl=0</a>.)</p>\n<p>7:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Speaker and Q&amp\;A</p>\n<p>8:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Chapter Busi ness and Future Plans</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR