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US-China Cyber Relations Final Day: How to Solve the Big Data Problem
Presentation Friday 27th on US-China Collaboration using Social Media Fed Agent Simulations of Climate Change, Cybersecurity and Pandemics
Tomorrow, Friday 27, at 12pm there will be an exclusive presentation on US-China Collaboration using Social Media Fed Agent Simulations of Climate Change, Cybersecurity and Pandemics. This is a 10 year historic Emory/GaTech/Chinese Academy of Science project on using global social media to develop the capacity of communities, nations, and the planet to respond to climate change and to reverse it.
This is the first time that this will be discussed by an expert who spent 15 years researching US China cyber relations. All week Dr. Foster has been talking about various aspects of US China Cyber Relations including the battle for control of the internet, the PLA’s views on the internet in China as a tool for cyber espionage against militantly aggressive forces in the US, and Chinese cyber-espionage and President Obama’s retaliation including the use of logic bombs throughout the Chinese military command and control networks.
The presentation on US China collaboration using social media simulations of climate change, cybersecurity and pandemics will be held Friday, June 27, 2014 12 noon to 1 pm in Room 422 of Goizueta Business School, Emory University. Parking at Fishman Garage on Fishman
Dr. William Foster is available for exclusive interviews between 10 am and 11 am
tomorrow Friday. His cell is 1-520-440-0807.
About Dr. William Foster
Dr. William Foster got his PhD and studied at University of Arizona under Dr. Sy Goodman. His PhD dissertation on the Diffusion of the Internet in China was published in 2001 by CISAC at Stanford. Sy’s research team, the MOSAIC Group, has studied Internet diffusion in 40 countries.
Dr. Foster was in charge of government for the Commercial Internet Exchange, the world’s first ISP association. He then taught information systems at Arizona State University and then left to found the Institute for Next Generation Internet.
