Seminar Event
Location: ICTAS Café X
Topic – Center for e-Design
Facilitators – Richard Goff / Janis Terpenny / Nicholas Polys
Complete listings can be viewed at http://www.ictas.vt.edu/communication/blackswan.html
Background
In the NY Times best seller, “The Black Swan”, the author (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) defines a Black Swan as an event that has three characteristics: it is an outlier; it carries an extreme impact; it has retrospective predictability. He further makes a claim that our world is dominated by Black Swans. This seminar series will provide an environment in which engineers, scientists and humanists from different disciplines can come together to move beyond the predictable and incremental advances in the current technologies to the disruptive technologies of the future - a breeding ground for future Black Swans.
Contact: Melissa Wade
Email: mwade05@vt.edu