WORLDCOMP'11 Invited Lecture - Prof. Peeter Lorents
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NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence: the place, which integrates computer science, research, engineering, military, politics and the law in cyber domain
Prof. Peeter Lorents Research and Development Branch Chief, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence Date: July 20, 2011 Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm Location: Ballroom 5 |
Initial thoughts and ideas. Why Estonia? Estonia as early cyber-society. The 2007 spring cyber attacks against Estonia. Lessons learned. The project team time. The official start. Mission and vision. The NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence – what is it, and what is definitely not. Current structure. Branches and key areas of activities. Program of work. Working relationship. Some examples of the results. Some examples of topics for the future: Artificial intelligence and intelligent systems in cyber domain.
Professor Peeter Lorents is the Research and Development Branch Chief in the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, established in 2008 by seven NATO nations in Tallinn, Estonia. Peeter Lorents is an active mathematician and computer scientist, working in the field of cyber security and intelligent systems. He also teaches Estonian Business School and IT-College students in a variety of subjects, such as theory of systems, mathematical logic, algebra, theory of algorithms, intelligent systems etc, and has written several books and dozens of scientific papers. He has PhD degree in mathematical logic and theory of algorithm from Leningrad (now St Peterburg) State University.
In the "Soviet time" Peeter Lorents worked at the Institute of Cybernetics of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. During the transition period he worked as adviser to the Minister of Education, and later as the Prime Minister's adviser. Peeter Lorents has been elected twice to the Estonian Parliament, and acted as chairman of the Defense Committee of the Parliament of the Republic of Estonia.
He plays piano and organ, loves to travel by mountain bike, and plays tennis regularly. In 1994 he won the first tennis tournament of the European Parliaments.
