Topic:Ultra-paranoid Computing for the Consumer
Abstract:A brief history of security failures underscores the ultra-paranoid assumptions. Multiple parts separated onto safe media and stored in safe places can address even the ultra-paranoid assumptions.
Speaker:David Pruett
Speaker’s Bio:David Pruett‘s 50-plus year obsession with computers has resulted in several unintended consequences.  His 5th grade fascination with the economic model in Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine continues unabated to this day. Danny Dunn’s secret Homework Machine (a computer) frees the protagonist to go out and play while the other kids toil.  The quest for Homework Machines has molded Mr. Pruett’s interests towards those fields capable of producing Homework Machines, and those that study how to benefit from them.

Eventually the Homework Machines helped bring to life an array of amazing early prototype devices, which as often as not ended up becoming Homework Machines themselves.  Having the world’s first tablet computer twenty years before the other kids was a significant step in the quest for Homework Machines. Likewise blazingly fast parallel machines, and other devices. Amazing people with amazing wisdom tend to come along with amazing devices, and Mr. Pruett is casually working on material for a blog about some of the devices and people that shaped our world.
If the person with the coolest toys wins, money does not get you the VERY coolest toys that can’t be bought at any price.  From Kahneman’s 2010Princeton study, neither does it get you happiness.  One of Pruett’s more recent results in economics incorporates Kahneman’s results to derive the supply curve for labor.  In excess of ten people have retired almost immediately after seeing the result.  Mr. Pruett is currently majoring in Funat Texas State University, without enrolling or attending formal classes. Recent reports suggest students actually went as Pruett for Halloween.
Homework Machines involve focusing on eliminating the largest obstacles to fun, which is sometimes no longer homework, but fear.  His computer security project is now in its 6th year of testing.
Date & Time:Wednesday, June 27, 2018, Networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Location:PoK-e-Jo’s, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727
Map:map
Cost:$5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost.
Reservations:Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend.
Presentation:Ultraparanoid_Computing_Pruett.pdf
Registration:https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/173673