Technology Visionaries: Professor Ross Anderson FRS FREng - Royal Academy of Engineering

Описание: Technology Visionaries Lecture: In conversation with Professor Ross Anderson FRS FREng
12 November 2012

Event details : http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/detail...

Software can act at a distance, and in arbitrarily complex ways; and global scale means that actors often do not enjoy (or suffer) the full economic consequences of what they do. Engineers have to start paying attention to incentives, and designing mechanisms to be "strategy-proof" - which means that participants who behave selfishly should not thereby wreck the system for everyone else. Dependability is no longer something we can engineer directly; it rather emerges from the self-interested actions of firms who may be competitors and people who may even be in conflict with each other. Professor Anderson discusses a number of examples of failure and fragility, from payment systems through cybercrime to the resilience of the internet itself.