Sunday 8 August 1999
9:00 – 9:15
Opening Remarks
Carlo Schaerf
9:15 – 10:45 Session 1 Chair: Carlo Schaerf
Information Technology: Defence and Security
Leonid Ryabikhin
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2 Chair: Diego Latella
An Introduction to Computer Security
Danilo Bruschi
16:30 – 18:00 Session 3 Chair: Gary Chapman
The Hystory of Internet
Katie Hafner
18:15 – 19:45 Session 4 Chair: Gert Harigel
Russia: Evolution of the National Security Identity – The Problems of Computers Implementation
Sergei Oznobistchev
Monday 9 August 1999
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1 Chair: Heszter Hargittai
Information Technology and War: a Historical
Giampiero Giacomello
10:45 – 12:15 Session 2 Chair: Rita Rogers
United States Air Force’s Perspective on Information Operations
Inge Gedo
16:30 – 18:00 Session 3 Chair: Mehmet Tugtan
Global Surveillance and the Elimination of Communication Privacy
Simon Davies
18:15 – 19:45 Session 4 Chair: Jil Williamson
What Motivates Hackers to Break Into Computer Systems? Analysis of the Hacker Culture
Katie Haffner
Tuesday 10 August 1999
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1 Chair: Jeff Porter
Strategic Information Warfare
Giampiero Siroli
10:45 – 12:15 Session 2 Chair: Andrea Girolami
Accidental Nuclear War
Gert Harigel
Free Afternoon
Wednesday 11 August 1999
8:45 – 10:15 Session 1 Chair: Mieke Massink
Data Overload: The Problem of Command and Control of Nuclear Forces in the Information Age
Michael Kraig
10:30 – 12:00 Session 2 Chair: Alexander Attila Penzes
Information Warfare: The New Frontier
Neil Fisher
14:30 – 16:00 Session 3 Chair: Alexander Vetsko
The Internet and the Military
Matthew Lyon
18:15 – 19:45 Session 4 Chair: Giampiero Giacomello
The Rise of Global Surveillance Networks – the EU Response
Steve Wright
Thursday 12 August 1999
ISODARCO-ITC/IRST Workshop – IRST, Trento
9:00 – 10:00
Welcome and presentation of IRST
Oliviero Stock, ITC-IRST Director
10:00 – 11:00 Chair: Oliviero Stock
Giving the citizen a better chance: the role of Human Language Technologies
Fabio Pianesi, ITC-IRST
11:20 – 12:20 Chair: Giampiero Siroli
Software for (Safety) Critical Applications: Problems and Perspectives
Paolo Traverso, ITC-IRST
13:45 Visit to IRST Labs
15:00 – 16:30 Chair: Carlo Schaerf
From Panacea to Pandemonium: The Uncertain Potential of the Internet
Dorothy Zinberg
16:30 – 18:20 Chair: Diego Latella
The Role of High Tech Convetional Weapons in the Modern Military
Gary Chapman
Friday 13 August 1999
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1 Chair: Eugene Miasnikov
Assuring and Protecting Critical International Information and Communications Infrastructures 1
Seymour Goodman
10:45 – 12:15 Session 2 Chair: Sandi Arnolds
The Process of Nuclear and Conventional Arms Control – The Problems of Computer Implementation
Sergey Oznobistchev
16:30 – 18:00 Session 3 Chair: Paul Ingram
Wars are US: Defending the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure
Neil Fisher
18:15 – 19:45 Session 4 Chair: Shu Yuan Hsieh
Computer-linked Social Movements and the Global Threat to Capitalism
Harry Cleaver
Saturday 14 August 1999
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1 Chair: Mirco Elena
Can Computers and Communication Enhance Global Security
Bruce Larkin
10:45 – 12:15 Session 2 Chair: Alessandro Pascolini
Public Policy Controversies Surrounding Digital Encryption 1
Elizabeth Rindskopf
Trip
Sunday 15 August 1999
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1 Chair: Olivier Minkwitz
Assuring and Protecting Critical International Information and Communications Infrastructures 2
Seymour Goodman
10:45 – 12:15 Session 2 Chair: Gary Chapman
Public Policy Controversies Surrounding Digital Encryption 2
Elizabeth Rindskopf
16:30 – 18:00 Session 3 Chair: Victor Gilinsky
Y2K and the US Nuclear Arsenal: the Status of Y2K Remediation Programs
Michael Kraig
18:15 – 19:45 Session 4 Chair: Gert Harigel
The Rise of Global Surveillance Networks – the NGO Response
Steve Wright
Monday 16 August 1999
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1
Global Information Networks and the Policy- Making: the Russian Viewpoint
Alexander Kaffka
10:45 – 12:15 Session 2
The Internet and Political Action by Grassroots Organisations: Building Security and Participatory Democracy
Paul Ingram
16:30 – 18:00 Session 3
Computer simulation and the battlefield
Giampiero Giacomello
18:15 – 19:45 Session 4 Chair: Ruth Adams
Panel discussion
Impressions & Summation
Giampiero Giacomello, Paul Ingram, Michael Kraig
Concluding Remarks
