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Obituary: Professor Ross Anderson, leader in security engineering and advocate

Obituary: Professor Ross Anderson, leader in security engineering and advocate

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Ross Anderson, a titan in the field of security engineering and advocate for personal privacy and security, has actually died By Costs Goodwin, Computer Weekly Released: 04 Apr 2024 10:37 Buddies and associates have actually commemorated Ross Anderson, teacher of security engineering at Cambridge University and Edinburgh University, and a terrifying advocate for digital rights. Anderson, who passed away all of a sudden at his home in Cambridge on Thursday 28 March 2024 aged 67, is understood similarly for his magnum opus in the field of security engineering and his unrelenting marketing for personal privacy and security. A fellow of the Royal Society and recipient of the BCS Lovelace medal for his contributions to establishing security engineering as a discipline, his ...
Ladies in AI: Kate Devlin of King’s College is looking into AI and intimacy

Ladies in AI: Kate Devlin of King’s College is looking into AI and intimacy

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To offer AI-focused females academics and others their well-deserved-- and past due-- time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is releasing a series of interviews concentrating on impressive ladies who've added to the AI transformation. We'll release a number of pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting essential work that typically goes unacknowledged. Find out more profiles here. Kate Devlin is a speaker in AI and society at King's College London. The author of "Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots," which analyzes the ethical and social ramifications of tech and intimacy, Devlin examines how individuals engage with and respond to innovations-- both previous and future. Devlin-- who in 2016 ran the U.K.'s very first sex tech hackathon-- directs advocacy and engagement for ...