Should you believe anything you see and interact with online?

Inaugural lecture given by Michael Huth, Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computing, Imperial College London

The twenty first century has already been defined by cyberspace, powering a technology and information revolution that will have a profound impact on societies, industries, and the public sector. Smartphones, augmented reality glasses and 'thinking' robots are examples of how we will feel the influence of cyberspace on what we do and who we are.

Although cyberspace has the potential to provide huge benefits to society, its infrastructure was designed in the last century with different applications in mind. We are now aware of security issues that could jeopardise our personal savings, make our private data public or in extreme cases even cost us our lives.

So when can we trust online interactions?In this lecture I will explain how we gather the evidence required to trust and control interactions online, and how we use advances in automated reasoning to validate these evidence-based controls.

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