{"id":59568,"date":"2014-11-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/world-renowned-security-guru-will-close-uri-honors-colloquium-dec-2\/"},"modified":"2014-11-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T00:00:00","slug":"world-renowned-security-guru-will-close-uri-honors-colloquium-dec-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/11\/world-renowned-security-guru-will-close-uri-honors-colloquium-dec-2\/","title":{"rendered":"World-renowned \u201cSecurity Guru\u201d will close URI Honors Colloquium, Dec. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Nov. 17, 2014 \u2013 The final Honors Colloquium lecture will welcome internationally renowned expert on cyber security, Bruce Schneier on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m. The free, public lecture talk is titled, \u201cSurveillance and Power.\u201d The lecture will be held in Edwards Hall Auditorium, 64 Upper College Road.<\/p>\n


\nThe presenting sponsor is Cox Business. Thanks to the generosity of Cox Business a free iPad mini will be given away at each event. You must attend the event to have a chance to win. <\/p>\n


\nDubbed a \u201csecurity guru\u201d by The Economist, Schneier has published 12 books on the subjects of computer security and cryptography. His monthly newsletter Crypto-Gram, and his blog, Schneier on Security, are read by more than 250,000 people. Schneier’s frequent postings range from short quips to articles detailing serious security issues. <\/p>\n


\nSchneier is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, a program fellow at the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an advisory board member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the chief technology officer at Co3 Systems, Inc.<\/p>\n


\nThe lecture will explore the benefits, and harms of a surveillance-driven society. Schneier will discuss why society need to design policies that limit corporate and government intrusions into our privacy, while at the same time reimagining our society in ways that can reap the benefits of our collective surveillance data.<\/p>\n


\nClick here for a full schedule of Cybersecurity and Privacy speakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nThose unable to attend the lecture can watch it live online at URI Live!<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n


\nPresenting Sponsor: Cox Business <\/p>\n


\nMajor Sponsors: URI Honors Program.<\/p>\n


\nSponsors: \u2028URI Office of the President; Uri Office of the Provost; The Mark and Donna Ross Honors Colloquium Humanities Endowment; The Thomas Silvia and Shannon Chandley Honors Colloquium Endowment;\u2028URI College of Human Science and Services;\u2028URI Talent Development;\u2028URI Multicultural Center;\u2028URI College of Arts & Sciences;\u2028URI Harrington School of Communications and Media;\u2028URI John Hazen White, Sr. Center for Ethics and Public Service;\u2028URI College of Pharmacy;\u2028URI College of Engineering;\u2028URI College of the Environment and Life Sciences;\u2028URI College of Nursing;\u2028URI College of Business Administration;\u2028URI Division of Student Affairs;\u2028URI Department of Communications and Marketing;\u2028URI Department of Publications and Services;\u2028URI ITS Instructional Technology and Media Services.<\/p>\n


\nThis release was written by Caitlin Musselman, a URI Marketing and Communications intern and a public relations and political science major.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Nov. 17, 2014 \u2013 The final Honors Colloquium lecture will welcome internationally renowned expert on cyber security, Bruce Schneier on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m. The free, public lecture talk is titled, \u201cSurveillance and Power.\u201d The lecture will be held in Edwards Hall Auditorium, 64 Upper College Road. The presenting sponsor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}