Bruce Schneier and Bruce Sterling are coming to the University of Southern California's Annenberg School at the end of September as part of my Fulbright Chair.
Bruce Sterling will be here on September 25 at 2PM, at the Annenberg School's room 204. Bruce is one of the great science fiction writers of the age, but he's also an incisive critic, journalist and scholar. From books like The Hacker Crackdown (the first commercially published book released simultaneously for free on the net), which chronicles the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, to last year's Shaping Things, a mind-blowing treatise on the ways that network-aware materials and products will forever change the way the world works. Bruce resides in Belgrade with his wife, Serbian radical writer/filmmaker Jasmina Tesanovic. (Seating for this event is limited to 50 people, first come, first serve — get there early!)
Bruce Schneier will be here on September 26th at 7PM, at the Annenberg School's room 207. Bruce is a world-renowned security expert, whose Applied Cryptography and Secrets and Lies are the Bibles of the infosec trade. But Bruce has a bigger agenda: with books like Beyond Fear, he's taken on the subject security and freedom — whether they're opposite poles of an axis, or whether freedom is a prerequisite for security. Bruce is a compelling speaker who makes this abstruse stuff accessible to civilians. No one is better at explaining how to be a wise consumer of security, and there's never been a time when that was more important. The next time you take off your shoes or surrender your water-bottle to "fight terrorism," the things Schneier has to say will put it all into infuriating perspective.
Sterling talk:
Sept 25, 2PM-3:30PM
University of Southern California, Annenberg School, 3502 Watt Way
Room 204
Schneier talk:
Sept 26, 7PM-9PM
University of Southern California, Annenberg School, 3502 Watt Way
Room 207
Update: Tracy LaQuey Parker points out that her book "The Internet Companion", published by Addison-Wesley in 1992, was published online shortly before Bruce's Hacker Crackdown.
