Deepfake: Technological Manifestations, Societal, Moral & Legal Implications

** IMPORTANT ** NEW MEETING LOCATION **

Our next local AITP Chapter will be meeting on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, at DeSales University Center.

This presentation is open for members and non-members, faculty, staff, and students.

ABSTRACT:
Deepfake: Technological Manifestations, Societal, Moral & Legal Implications

This talk looks at Deepfake related developments that are becoming a new technological tsunami approaching our shores and pushes the audience to think through the kind of disruptions they are bound to unleash. While we want to nurture all the positive aspects of this technology, we also need to understand and be prepared to handle many legal, ethical, moral, societal issues starting to affect our zeitgeist. If they are not handled carefully, resulting changes can obliterate all the virtues technology can bring to our society and turn the population against it. Talk will look at implementation models, issues and potential solutions.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dr. Sundar Vedantham, Ex-Director of Software Development at Intel, worked in the Network and Edge Group (NEX) of Intel Corporation in Allentown, PA. His skillset and experience cover a wide range of telecommunication related domains. His team was recently involved in delivering highly optimized software layer that drive silicon hardware accelerators, designed to aid mobile and cloud networks. He joined Lucent Technologies couple of decades back and has traveled through various incarnations of his division to eventually become part of Intel Corporation.

His research interests include network traffic and congestion management, high-speed networking, security, and theoretical computer models, areas in which he holds patents and has published papers, book chapters & articles. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1997 from Louisiana State University. In his early years he has worked in a Helicopter Design Bureau and served two years as a maintenance engineer in an offshore Oil & Gas platform.

He enjoys writing articles in English and Tamil to help improve public understanding of the technical details behind the fields he has worked on and to attract young students to get into STEM fields. Many of his articles are available online for free. As part of this effort, he has published a book titled Thought Experiments available online to help anyone from high school students onwards understand complex ideas embedded in fields like Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Ethics, Democracy and Medicine.

NEW LOCATION & DIRECTIONS:
DeSales University Center is located at 2755 Station Avenue Center Valley, PA 18034. click here for driving directions

DINNER FEES:
If you are planning to join us for the in-person optional networking dinner at 6 PM, there is a $20 fee via cash or credit/debit at the door. If you are not planning for dinner, please join us at 7 p.m. complimentary presentation (in-person or remote).

If you wish to attend the presentation portion virtually, you are welcome to use this Zoom connection: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84101664125.

AGENDA:
5:30PM – 6:00 PM (Arrival and professional networking)
6:00 – 7:00 PM (Networking Dinner)
7:00 – 8:00 or 8:30 PM EST (Presentation -- FREE)

For a listing of our AITP Lehigh Valley Chapter events, please visit our website at http://www.lv-aitp.org/

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15th!!