InfoCoBuild

Living in a Cyber-Enabled World

Should We Trust Computers? Computers and software have transformed the world in 67 years and the pace of change is still accelerating. The achievements have been extraordinary: we have the Web, Google and GPS - but we also have viruses, spam and cybercrime. What can we learn from past triumphs and disasters to help us decide about Big Data, driverless cars, artificial intelligence and life in silico? Might the future be built on sand, metaphorically as well as literally?

An independent consultant systems engineer and non-executive director, Professor Martyn Thomas is an internationally recognised expert in safety-critical or security-critical, software intensive systems, software engineering, and cybersecurity. (from gresham.ac.uk)

01. Should We Trust Computers?


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01. Should We Trust Computers?
02. A Very Brief History of Computing, 1948-2015
03. How Can Software Be So Hard?
04. Computers, People and the Real World
05. Cybersecurity
06. Big Data: The Broken Promise of Anonymisation
07. Are You the Customer or the Product?
08. Safety-Critical Systems
09. The Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance
10. What Really Happened in Y2K?
11. Making Software 'Correct by Construction'
12. Artificial Intelligence