In the post-9/11 world, new technologies afford both greater promise and peril than ever before – providing better means of achieving true homeland security while at the same time furthering the potential for technology-abetted terrorism. What kinds of technological solutions can best navigate this 21st century knife edge? How integrated is the human network of public- and private-sector researchers who are developing them? And is knowledge about this critical work likely to be accessible to – and acted on by – our nation’s leaders, government agencies and policy makers?

Introduction by Dean Orville Schell, Graduate School of Journalism

Panel Moderated by Dean Michael Nacht, Goldman School of Public Policy

Panelists Include:

Kris Pister – Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), co-founder of Dust Networks, and chief architect of patent pending SmartMesh technology.

John Gage – Chief Researcher, Sun Microsystems

Stephen Maurer – Acting Director of the Goldman School of Public Policy’s Homeland and IT Security Program.

Roger Brent – President and Research Director, Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley

Katrina Heron, Martha Baer and Evan Ratliff – co-authors of “SAFE: The Race To Protect Ourselves In a Newly Dangerous World” (HarperCollins, February 2005).

A just-published review in Newsweek magazine says,

“SAFE” is an ambitious book. Not only does it identify many of the major vulnerabilities that pulse through modern society, it also attempts to present practical, technologically informed solutions.”

Heron is the former Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine, to which both Baer and Ratliff are longtime contributors.