[Please, feel free to send the announcement below to those people you think might be intereted in it] =========================== WEBINAR ANNOUNCEMENT =========================== Climate and Humanitarian Consequences of an even Limited Nuclear Exchange and the Actual Risks of Nuclear War Public webinar February 16, 2024 - 16:00 (CET) (Official language: English) Programme Moderated by Mieke Massink - CNR ISTI; CNR GI-STS 16:00 Opening Fabio Recchia - President of Area della Ricerca CNR, Pisa Giuliano Colombetti - CNR IBF; CNR GI-STS 16:15 Climatic and Agricultural Consequences of a Regional Nuclear War Venance Journé - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, F 16:45 Actual Current Risks of a Limited Nuclear Exchange Paolo Cotta Ramusino - Secretary General of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs 17:15 Discussion The webinar is organized by the 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 Caffè della Scienza "N. Badaloni" - Livorno Centro Interdisciplinare Scienze per La Pace dell'Università di Pisa Istituto di Biofisica del CNR Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica del CNR Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione ``A. Faedo'' del CNR La Nuova Limonaia Laboratorio Informatica e Società del CINI Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs Unione degli Scienziati Per Il Disarmo For further information --- including the link for online participation --- please refer to the "Events" web page (http://gists.pi.cnr.it/events.html ) in the web site of the Gruppo Interdisciplinare su Scienza, Tecnologia e Società (GI-STS) of Area della Ricerca di Pisa del CNR,(http://gists.pi.cnr.it ). =========================== D. Latella -- 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) CNR/GI-STS (http://gists.pi.cnr.it) https://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, 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 so speaking, 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]