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Brandeis University
Office of Alumni Relations
Mailstop 124
P.O. Box 549110
415 South Street
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
781-736-4100
800-333-1948
781-736-4101 FAX
office@alumni.brandeis.edu
Page updated: 05/16/06
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Alumni College 2002: Shaping the Future
Friday, June 7, 2002
Class II
10:45 am - 12:15 pm
A. Always Connected: The Future of Wireless
Communication and Convergence
Jordan Pollack, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Volen
National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University
All communication devices are turning into one. As bandwidth increases on
wireless networks (3G), so does the ability to be "always connected" to nearly
infinite informational resources and to communicate large amounts of information
such as photographs or videos to people. The end of telephone tag threatens to
change humanity but also creates numerous hot investment areas. All of these and
more communication technologies were explored by noted Computer Science
Professor Jordan Pollack
B. After the Cold War: Reinventing the CIA
" Ted Gup '72, Shirley Wormser
Professor of Journalism at Case Western Reserve University, former
investigative reporter for The Washington Post and Time magazine,
and author of The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the
CIA
The Cold War gave the Central Intelligence Agency a big budget, a murky
mystique, and a reason for existence. The legacy of that titanic struggle
against Communism left it ill-prepared for today's threat from terrorists.
Ahead lies a major restructuring but, after half a century, even more daunting
is the prospect of reinventing itself and shedding the old paradigms. Professor
Gup offered some insights into whether or not the CIA can free itself from its
own past and why it is that its so-called victory in the Cold War has put it at
such a distinct disadvantage in the new war on terrorism.
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