JF@SU-SUSHI.ARPA (Joan Feigenbaum) (12/14/85)
APOLOGIES TO THOSE WHOSE BBOARDS RECEIVED MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS. ____________________________________________________________________________ ``SDI: How Feasible, How Useful, How Robust?'' This will be a technical debate, covering both hardware and software aspects of SDI. Sponsor: Stanford Computer Science Department Date: December 19, 1985 Time: 8:00 p.m. Place: Terman Auditorium Organizer: Barbara Simons, IBM-SJ Moderator: Dr. Marvin L. Goldberger, President of Cal Tech. Former member of President's Science Advisory Committee and Consultant on Arms Control and International Security. Panelists: Advocates: Professor Richard Lipton, Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, Current member of SDIO's Panel on Computing and Support of Battle Management. Major Simon Peter Warden, the Special Assistant to the Director of the SDIO and Technical Advisor to the Nuclear and Space Arms Talk with the USSR in Geneva. Opponents: Dr. Richard L. Garwin, IBM Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Physics at Columbia University, Physicist and Defense Consultant. Professor David Parnas, Lansdown Professor of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, Former member of the SDI Organization's Panel on Computing and Support of Battle Management. -------