2008 Sloan Science Seminar: TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY

TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY:
Can This Forced Marriage Be Saved?

Followed by a reception in the George Lucas Building lobby.

George Lucas Building, Room 108
850 W. 34th St., Los Angeles, CA 90007


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* Dr. Douglas Thomas. Associate Professor of Communications, Annenberg School for Communication. Specialty is cybercrimes, computer security and surveillance, virtual identities, hacking culture.

* Dr. B. Clifford Neuman. Director, USC Center for Computer Systems Security; assistant research professor of computer science, Viterbi School of Engineering.

In the year 2054 A.D., crime is virtually eliminated from Washington D.C. thanks to an elite law enforcing squad known as "Precrime". They use three genetically altered humans (called "Pre-Cogs") with special powers to see into the future and predict crimes before they happen. John Anderton (Tom Cruise) heads Precrime and believes in the system's flawlessness. However, one day the Pre-Cogs predict that Anderton will commit a murder himself in the next 36 hours. Worse, Anderton doesn't even know the victim. He decides to get to the mystery's core by finding out the 'minority report', which means the prediction of the female Pre-Cog Agatha that "might" tell a different story and prove Anderton innocent. Directed by Steven Spielberg.