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DESCRIPTION:System Fragility: Are the Potential Societal Consequences Incre
 asing (and What Can Be Done About It?)\n\nThe slides for this meeting can 
 be found at http://sites.ieee.org/richmond/files/2017/03/RNCharette-IEEE-C
 S-Chapter-Presentation-Final-Rev-1-15-March-2015.pptx.\n\nIf you were one 
 of the half million passengers who had their Delta and Southwest Airlines 
 travel plans disrupted over the summer of 2016\, you probably don’t need
  to be told about the fragility of computer and communications systems. Th
 e same holds true for the hundreds of thousands of customers of Telstra\, 
 Australia’s telecommunications giant\, who suffered seven major outages 
 last year affecting everything from their Internet to mobile services. It 
 holds equally\, too\, for the over eighty-thousand―or one in four―fede
 ral Canadian government workers who have been paid too much\, or too littl
 e\, 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 yea
 r that their personal information had been compromised in nearly 1\,100 co
 nfirmed data breaches probably don’t need reminding\, either.\n\nAs info
 rmation and communications technology (ICT) systems have grown in capabili
 ty\, they have also grown in complexity\, as have their resultant risks—
 financial\, social\, and political as well as technological. For instance\
 , as airline ICT troubles continue unabated\, several members of Congress 
 are demanding that airlines ensure that their “IT systems are both relia
 ble and resilient\,” implying that unpleasant legislation might follow i
 f more outages occur. Some technologists and scientists\, such as Samuel A
 rbesman in his recently published book\, [Overcomplicated: Technology at t
 he Limits of Comprehension](http://www.arbesman.net/overcomplicated/)\, ev
 en argue that advances in digitalization have reached a point that while s
 implifying our daily existence\, they have also “made governing our live
 s incomprehensible\, unpredictable\, and overcomplicated.” If this is tr
 ue today\, what about tomorrow when “smart machines” able to perform t
 he majority of today’s jobs\, drive vehicles\, fight wars\, control the 
 electrical and banking systems\, etc.\, proliferate? What happens when the
 y go wrong?\n\nIn this wide-ranging talk\, Robert N. Charette\, co-editor 
 of IEEE Computer magazine’s new “Aftershock” column and a long-time 
 award winning IEEE Spectrum magazine contributing editor and editor of its
  “[Risk Factor](http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/riskfactor)” blog\, will
  be discussing the increasing fragility of ICT systems\, their potential i
 mpacts on society\, and what might be able to be done to manage their risk
 s 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 a
 nd faults recently published at [IEEE Spectrum Online](http://spectrum.iee
 e.org/static/lessons-from-a-decade-of-it-failures)\, as well as his experi
 ences from a forty-year career in international ICT development and manage
 ment within the computing\, aerospace &amp; defense\, government\, pharmaceuti
 cal\, telecommunication and utilities industries.\n\nBackground informatio
 n for topics to be discussed:\n\n“[Why Software Fails](http://spectrum.i
 eee.org/computing/software/why-software-fails)\,” IEEE Spectrum\, Septem
 ber 2005.\n\n“[Dying for Data](http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/diagn
 ostics/dying-for-data)\,” IEEE Spectrum\, September 2006.\n\n“[This Ca
 r Runs on Code](http://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/systems/this-car-r
 uns-on-code)\,” IEEE Spectrum\, February 2009.\n\n“[The Rise of the Ro
 bot Warriors](http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/military-robots/the-rise-o
 f-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 M
 edia Attention?](http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/more-cyberatt
 acks-or-just-more-media-attention)” IEEE Spectrum\, July 2011.\n\n“[Te
 chnological Unemployment: An Absurd Worry or Valid Concern?](https://www.c
 utter.com/sites/default/files/itjournal/fulltext/2015/07/itj1507.pdf)” C
 utter IT Journal\, July 2015.\n\n“[Lessons from a Decade of IT Failures]
 (http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/the-staggering-impact-of-it-systems-gone-
 wrong)\,” IEEE Spectrum\, October 2015.\n\n“[Dragging Government Legac
 y Systems Out of the Shadows](https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2016/0
 9/mco2016090114.html)\,” IEEE Computer\, September 2016.\n\n“[IT’s F
 atal Amnesia](https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/02/mco2017020086.
 html)\,” IEEE Computer\, February 2017.\n\nSpeaker(s): Robert Charette\,
  \, Robert Charette\, \n\nAgenda: \n6:30 pm - 7:00 pm - Social Time / Meal
 s (Details on meal choices can be found at https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ss3b
 lfsek0k0er/Meal%20Selections%20for%20IEEE%20Computer%20Society%20Meeting.p
 df?dl=0.)\n\n7:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Speaker and Q&amp;A\n\n8:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Ch
 apter Business and Future Plans\n\nBldg: Henrico County Public Library - T
 uckahoe Branch\, 1901 Starling Dr\, Henrico\, Virginia\, United States\, 2
 3229
LOCATION:Bldg: Henrico County Public Library - Tuckahoe Branch\, 1901 Starl
 ing Dr\, Henrico\, Virginia\, United States\, 23229
ORGANIZER:allen.jones@ieee.org
SEQUENCE:6
SUMMARY:IEEE Computer Society Technical Meeting
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/44178
X-ALT-DESC:Description: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;System Fragility: Are the Potentia
 l Societal Consequences Increasing (and What Can Be Done About It?)&lt;/stron
 g&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;The slides for this meeting can be found at&amp;nbsp\;&lt;a href=&quot;http
 ://sites.ieee.org/richmond/files/2017/03/RNCharette-IEEE-CS-Chapter-Presen
 tation-Final-Rev-1-15-March-2015.pptx&quot;&gt;http://sites.ieee.org/richmond/file
 s/2017/03/RNCharette-IEEE-CS-Chapter-Presentation-Final-Rev-1-15-March-201
 5.pptx&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;If you were one of the half million passengers who had
  their Delta and Southwest Airlines travel plans disrupted over the summer
  of 2016\, you probably don&amp;rsquo\;t need to be told about the fragility o
 f computer and communications systems. The same holds true for the hundred
 s of thousands of customers of Telstra\, Australia&amp;rsquo\;s telecommunicat
 ions giant\, who suffered seven major outages last year affecting everythi
 ng from their Internet to mobile services. It holds equally\, too\, for th
 e over eighty-thousand―or one in four―federal Canadian government work
 ers who have been paid too much\, or too little\, or not at all since a ye
 ar ago February &lt;em&gt;23&lt;sup&gt;rd&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;/em&gt;after the introduction of a new p
 ayroll system. The 37 million Americans who were informed last year that t
 heir personal information had been compromised in nearly 1\,100 confirmed 
 data breaches probably don&amp;rsquo\;t need reminding\, either.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;As in
 formation and communications technology (ICT) systems have grown in capabi
 lity\, they have also grown in complexity\, as have their resultant risks&amp;
 mdash\;financial\, social\, and political as well as technological. For in
 stance\, as airline ICT troubles continue unabated\, several members of Co
 ngress are demanding that airlines ensure that their &amp;ldquo\;IT systems ar
 e both reliable and resilient\,&amp;rdquo\; implying that unpleasant legislati
 on might follow if more outages occur.&amp;nbsp\; Some technologists and scien
 tists\, such as Samuel Arbesman in his recently published book\, &lt;a href=&quot;
 http://www.arbesman.net/overcomplicated/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Overcomplicated: Technology 
 at the Limits of Comprehension&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;\, even argue that advances in digi
 talization have reached a point that while simplifying our daily existence
 \, they have also &amp;ldquo\;made governing our lives incomprehensible\, unpr
 edictable\, and overcomplicated.&amp;rdquo\; If this is true today\, what abou
 t tomorrow when &amp;ldquo\;smart machines&amp;rdquo\; able to perform the majorit
 y of today&amp;rsquo\;s jobs\, drive vehicles\, fight wars\, control the elect
 rical and banking systems\, etc.\, proliferate? What happens when they go 
 wrong?&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;In this wide-ranging talk\, Robert N. Charette\, co-editor 
 of &lt;em&gt;IEEE Computer&lt;/em&gt; magazine&amp;rsquo\;s new &amp;ldquo\;Aftershock&amp;rdquo\;
  column and a long-time award winning I&lt;em&gt;EEE Spectrum&lt;/em&gt; magazine cont
 ributing editor and editor of its &amp;ldquo\;&lt;a href=&quot;http://spectrum.ieee.or
 g/blog/riskfactor&quot;&gt;Risk Factor&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo\; blog\, will be discussing the i
 ncreasing fragility of ICT systems\, their potential impacts on society\, 
 and what might be able to be done to manage their risks while still reapin
 g their rewards. During his talk\, Charette will draw on the lessons learn
 ed from his study of a decade of global ICT failures and faults recently p
 ublished at &lt;a href=&quot;http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/lessons-from-a-decade
 -of-it-failures&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;IEEE Spectrum Online&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;\, as well as his experi
 ences from a forty-year career in international ICT development and manage
 ment within the computing\, aerospace &amp;amp\; defense\, government\, pharma
 ceutical\, telecommunication and utilities industries.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Backgro
 und information for topics to be discussed:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo\;&lt;a href=&quot;
 http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/why-software-fails&quot;&gt;Why Softwa
 re Fails&lt;/a&gt;\,&amp;rdquo\; IEEE Spectrum\, September 2005.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;ldq
 uo\;&lt;a href=&quot;http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/diagnostics/dying-for-dat
 a&quot;&gt;Dying for Data&lt;/a&gt;\,&amp;rdquo\; &lt;em&gt;IEEE Spectrum&lt;/em&gt;\, September 2006.&lt;/
 p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo\;&lt;a href=&quot;http://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/systems/th
 is-car-runs-on-code&quot;&gt;This Car Runs on Code&lt;/a&gt;\,&amp;rdquo\; &lt;em&gt;IEEE Spectrum
 &lt;/em&gt;\, February 2009.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;ldquo\;&lt;a href=&quot;http://spectrum.iee
 e.org/robotics/military-robots/the-rise-of-robot-warriors&quot;&gt;The Rise of the
  Robot Warriors&lt;/a&gt;\,&amp;rdquo\; IEEE Spectrum\, September 2009.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbs
 p\;&amp;ldquo\;&lt;a href=&quot;http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/automated-
 to-death&quot;&gt;Automated to Death&lt;/a&gt;\,&amp;rdquo\; &lt;em&gt;IEEE Spectrum&lt;/em&gt;\, Decemb
 er 2009.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;ldquo\;&lt;a href=&quot;http://spectrum.ieee.org/computin
 g/networks/more-cyberattacks-or-just-more-media-attention&quot;&gt;More Cyberattac
 ks or Just More Media Attention?&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo\; &lt;em&gt;IEEE Spectrum&lt;/em&gt;\, July
  2011.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;ldquo\;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cutter.com/sites/defaul
 t/files/itjournal/fulltext/2015/07/itj1507.pdf&quot;&gt;Technological Unemployment
 : An Absurd Worry or Valid Concern?&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo\; &lt;em&gt;Cutter IT Journal&lt;/em&gt;
 \, July 2015.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;ldquo\;&lt;a href=&quot;http://spectrum.ieee.org/sta
 tic/the-staggering-impact-of-it-systems-gone-wrong&quot;&gt;Lessons from a Decade 
 of IT Failures&lt;/a&gt;\,&amp;rdquo\; &lt;em&gt;IEEE Spectrum&lt;/em&gt;\, October 2015.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;
 p&gt;&amp;ldquo\;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2016/09/mco201609
 0114.html&quot;&gt;Dragging Government Legacy Systems Out of the Shadows&lt;/a&gt;\,&amp;rdq
 uo\; &lt;em&gt;IEEE Computer&lt;/em&gt;\, September 2016.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo\;&lt;a href=&quot;htt
 ps://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/02/mco2017020086.html&quot;&gt;IT&amp;rsquo\;s
  Fatal Amnesia&lt;/a&gt;\,&amp;rdquo\; &lt;em&gt;IEEE Computer&lt;/em&gt;\, February 2017.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;b
 r /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agenda: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;6:30 pm - 7:00 pm - Social Time / Meals &amp;nbsp\;
 (Details on meal choices can be found at&amp;nbsp\;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dropbo
 x.com/s/9ss3blfsek0k0er/Meal%20Selections%20for%20IEEE%20Computer%20Societ
 y%20Meeting.pdf?dl=0&quot;&gt;https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ss3blfsek0k0er/Meal%20Sel
 ections%20for%20IEEE%20Computer%20Society%20Meeting.pdf?dl=0&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p
 &gt;7:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Speaker and Q&amp;amp\;A&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;8:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Chap
 ter Business and Future Plans&lt;/p&gt;
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