[Con preghiera di diffusione] [Please forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested] =========================== WEBINAR ANNOUNCEMENT =========================== Cyber-security, Nuclear Weapon Systems and Strategic Stability THURSDAY MAY 27, 2021 at 5:30 pm (CET) - Opening: Antonello Provenzale, President - Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa Diego Latella, CNR-ISTI (IT) - Cyber-security and Critical Infrastructures, a Global Challenge Domenico Laforenza, CNR-IIT (IT) - Strategic Stability and Cyber and Space Dependency in Nuclear Assets Beyza Unal, Chatham House (UK) The webinar is organised by Gruppo Interdisciplinare su Scienza, Tecnologia e Società (GI-STS) dell’Area della Ricerca di Pisa del CNR In cooperation with Areaperta – Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa Centro Interdisciplinare Scienze per La Pace dell’Università di Pisa Istituto di Biofisica del CNR Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione ``A. Faedo’’ del CNR Laboratorio Informatica e Società del CINI Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs Unione degli Scienziati Per Il Disarmo Under the auspices of La Nuova Limonaia Rete Università per la Pace The meeting will take place in Zoom, at the following link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85979020637?pwd=ZmNMbWxoVllXUmxBVUw4TllXZFBVdz09 <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85979020637?pwd=ZmNMbWxoVllXUmxBVUw4TllXZFBVdz09> For more information please refer to the "Events" page in the web site of the Gruppo Interdisciplinare su Scienza, Tecnologia e Società (GI-STS) dell’Area della Ricerca di Pisa del CNR, reachable selecting "GI-STS” in the menu "Vita di Area" in the home page of Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa (http://www.area.pi.cnr.it <http://www.area.pi.cnr.it/> ). Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR-ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) https://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, mob: +39 348 8283101, fax: +390506212040 =================== The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than compulsion; if in the process we learn how to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task. Above all, remember your humanity. -- Sir Joseph Rotblat =================== I don't quite know whether it is especially computer science or its subdiscipline Artificial Intelligence that has such an enormous affection for euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of computer systems that understand, that see, decide, make judgments, and so on, without ourselves recognizing our own superficiality and immeasurable naivete with respect to these concepts. And, in the process of sospeaking, we anesthetise our ability to evaluate the quality of our work and, what is more important, to identify and become conscious of its end use. […] One can't escape this state without asking, again and again: "What do I actually do? What is the final application and use of the products of my work?" and ultimately, "am I content or ashamed to have contributed to this use?" -- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3) 2–7, Aug. 1986]