Given the huge quantity of technologists round here we really out to get this whole recording/podcast thingy sorted out....
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On 10/31/06, Giles Bowkett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+1
Podcasts! (I have to go to Abq. tomorrow.)
On 10/31/06, Alfredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It'd be great if someday you could broadcast talks by internet. Not necessary
> in real time.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Alfredo
>
>
> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 11:32, McNamara, Laura A wrote:
> > Actually, we're beyond OUO! Which means all topics can be discussed
> > completely openly - that was a leftover from our LANL version of the
> > same talk.
> >
> > Burritos? Wow. We got water at LANL... :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Laura
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On
> > Behalf Of Stephen Guerin
> > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 5:05 PM
> > To: friam@redfish.com
> > Subject: [FRIAM] Lecture Nov 1 12p: Laura McNamara and Timothy Trucano
> >
> > *** special time: 12p ***
> >
> > SPEAKERs: Laura A. McNamara and Timothy G. Trucano
> > Sandia National Laboratories
> >
> > TITLE: Epistemological Issues in Computational Modeling and Simulation
> > and High Consequence Decision-Making
> >
> > TIME: Wed Nov 1, 2006 12:00p ** note special time
> > LOCATION: 624 Agua Fria Conference Room
> >
> > We will have breakfast burrittos with the speakers at Dominics at
> > 10:30a.
> > Everyone invited.
> > No lunch will be provided.
> >
> > ABSTRACT:
> > Since the end of the Cold war, the US intelligence community has faced
> > criticism for repeatedly failing to predict major international events:
> > the end of the Cold war, India and Pakistan's nuclear tests, terrorist
> > activities within and outside the United States. In response,
> > institutions in the IC have been looking for methodologies and
> > technologies to improve performance in the collection and analysis of
> > intelligence information. In particular, the IC's analytical community
> > is looking to modeling and simulation tools to revolutionize
> > intelligence analysis, enabling the collective to bridge information
> > gaps and promote knowledge discovery across (or perhaps despite)
> > intellectual, political, and organizational boundaries.
> >
> > This situation is not dissimilar to the crisis that the nuclear weapons
> > laboratories faced in the early 1990s, when the Hatfield Amendment
> > killed the testing program and the DOE introduced Science Based
> > Stockpile Stewardship as the new paradigm for assessing and certifying
> > the safety, security, and reliability of the nuclear stockpile. In
> > particular, both the nuclear weapons and intelligence communities have
> > invested in modeling and simulation technologies for their capacity to
> > synthesize large amounts of information in relatively short periods of
> > time, and for their predictive promise. However, as the nuclear weapons
> > laboratories have discovered, predictive capability is a hard thing to
> > attain, and modeling and simulation tools often raise more questions
> > than they answer.
> >
> > In this talk, we argue that the intelligence community and the nuclear
> > weapons laboratories are facing remarkably similar challenges in
> > developing, assessing, and integrating modeling and simulation tools
> > into their mission activities. In particular, epistemological issues
> > that tend to remain latent in academic research environments get thrown
> > into high relief when information generated by modeling and simulation
> > tools contributes to high consequence decisions. We illustrate this
> > point by reviewing research on modeling and simulation, knowledge
> > production, and prediction in economics, weather forecasting, climate
> > modeling. We then present case studies from the nuclear weapons
> > programs and
> > the intelligence community, both of which reveal the close coupling
> > between technology and organizational dynamics that characterizes
> > modeling and simulation in high-consequence decision making.
> >
> > This talk is the outcome of two years' worth of discussion and
> > collaboration between Trucano, a mathematician who has spent his career
> > in computational physics at Sandia National Laboratories; and McNamara,
> > a cultural anthropologist who has studied knowledge production in both
> > the nuclear weapons and the intelligence communities. All topics will be
> > discussed at the OUO level.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > editors note: I had to look up "OUO"
> >
> > If you enjoy the Oxford University Orchestra, this talk may be perfect
> > for you.
> >
> > Or perhaps you're a fan of OUO, an ex Zimbabwe-Legit Hip Hop band that
> > recently dropped some heat on Hollywood Basic a year ago. Founded by
> > Akim the Funk Buddha, Dumi Right and their cousin Pep.
> > http://www.africasgateway.com/article-print-295.html
> >
> > Or it's "Of Unknown Origin" though we assume Laura and Tim created the
> > talk...
> >
> > okay, it's quite probably "Official Use Only": identifying certain
> > unclassified but sensitive Department of Energy information that may be
> > exempt from public release under the Freedom of Information Act
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> --
> Hasta pronto
>
> Alfredo Covaleda Vélez
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