CERIAS Security Seminar: Chinese Views of Information and Future Warfare
Description
Speaker:
Dean Cheng
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
Abstract: Examines Chinese views on the importance of information as the new currency of international power, and discusses how the PLA's restructuring supports PLA efforts at planning for future "informationized local wars."
About: Dean Cheng is a non-resident Senior Fellow with the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and a Senior Advisor with the US Institute of Peace. He recently retired from the Heritage Foundation as the Senior Research Fellow for Chinese political and security affairs. He specializes in Chinese military and foreign policy, and has written extensively on Chinese military doctrine, technological implications of its space program, and "dual use" issues associated with China's industrial and scientific infrastructure. He is the author of "Cyber Dragon: Inside China's Information Warfare and Cyber Operations."
The weekly security seminar has been held every semester since spring of 1992. We invite personnel at Purdue and visitors from outside to present on topics of particular interest to them in the areas of computer and network security, computer crime investigation, information warfare, information ethics, public policy for computing and security, the computing "underground," and other related topics. More info
Contact Details
- Lori Floyd
- laf@purdue.edu
- (765) 494-7841