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IP: FOR WASHINGTON DC IPers ONLY -- Seminar announcement
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 15:33:24 -0500
1997-98 'Third Tuesdays' Seminar Series=20
=20 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 =20 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC=20 =20 Tuesday, November 18, 1997 4-6 p.m.=20 Room 405 Marvin Center, 21st & H St. NW, Washington, DC=20 =20 =20 TITLE: How I learned to love the CIA and Started Worrying=20 about Infrastructure Protection=20 =20 SPEAKER: MARY CULNAN, Commissioner, President's Commission on Critical=20 Infrastructure Protection=20 =20 COMMENTATORS: Alan Davidson, Center for Democracy and Technology=20 Peter Wilson, RAND Corporation=20 =20 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 =20 --------------------------------------------------------------=20 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- =F7^=F7^=20 ************************************************** "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin, ~1784 **************************************************
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