[net.announce.arpa-internet] SDI Debate at Stanford, 12/19/85

JF@SU-SUSHI.ARPA (Joan Feigenbaum) (12/14/85)

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		``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.



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