PCI Community Call: Dr. Kathy Laskey

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Hello, People Centered Internet (PCI) Community members.

Kathryn Blackmond Laskey is Professor in the Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department, Director of the Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities (C-RASC), and Associate Director of the C4I and Cyber Center at George Mason University. She teaches and performs research in information fusion, decision theoretic knowledge representation and reasoning, Bayesian data analytics, decision support, and uncertainty aware semantic technology. Dr. Laskey develops methods for transforming data from a variety of sources into information to answer our questions and improve our decisions. She has applied her research to diverse areas, including crisis response planning, analyzing susceptibility to phishing attacks, detecting insider threats in information systems, predicting innovations in science and technology, and analyzing resilience of hospitals to cyber-attacks. With greater interconnectivity and reliance on technology comes the potential for disruption due to technology failures, natural disasters, or malicious human activity. With her colleagues at C-RASC, Dr. Laskey performs research to foster sustainable community resilience in the face of disruptions.

Dr. Laskey will speak about George Mason’s Center for Resilient and  Sustainable Communities (C-RASC which  brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse, sustainable backgrounds to address locally led resilience and sustainability initiatives supported by effective, replicable models. Accelerating rates of technological, social, and climate change are placing unprecedented stresses on communities. These stresses demand an integrated approach to fostering resilience. As the world becomes ever more interconnected, the information technology revolution has created disruptive change, but also offers the opportunity for unprecedented good. Enhanced connectivity and digital opportunity are key elements of community resilience in today’s world. C-RASC’s community-focused approach to digital opportunity harmonizes with the People Centered Internet’s vision of an Internet that is a positive force for enhanced well-being of all people.