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Seminar: Prof. Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota

<b>Thursday, October 1st, 11 am - noon, LC400</b><br><br>
<b>Title:</b> How to Live and Prosper with Insecure Cyber Infrastructure
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<b>Abstract:</b> Professor Andrew Odlyzko uses an
interdisciplinary approach that incorporates
insights from economics, law, sociology, and
psychology of security to explain some
counterintuitive and contrarian approaches to
research and the deployment of information
technologies.
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<b>Bio:</b>                                                                  
Andrew Odlyzko has had a long and distinguished career                
in research and research management at Bell and AT&T labs and has               
recently built an interdisciplinary research center. He has authored            
over 150 technical papers on computational complexity, cryptography,            
number theory, combinatorics, coding theory, analysis, probability              
theory and related fields. In recent years, he has worked on electronic         
commerce, economics of data networks, and economic history with                 
particular focus on diffusion of technological innovation.