GRF Young Professionals Program
2016-2017 Term
Fourth & Fifth Meetings

The fourth and fifth meetings of the 2016-2017 term of the GRF Young Professionals Program was held on October 1 & 14, 2017, in Istanbul.

The theme of the 2016-2017 GRF Young Professionals Program was designated as “technology.” The discussions and presentations of our fourth and fifth meetings on “Technology & Security” were organized around the following topics: “Cyber”, “Drones”, “DARPA”, “Blockchain”,“Space” and “Driverless Cars”

The presenters used the following books as reference points in addressing their selected topics:

October 1

Cyber

1. The Darkening Web - Alexander Klimburg
2. The Hacked World Order * - Adam Segal
3. The Evolution of the Cyber Domain - IISS

Drones

1. Drones - Sarah Kreps
2. Drone wars - Peter Bergen
3. Drone Warfare - Hugh Gusterson *

DARPA

1. The Imagineers of War - Sharfon Weinberge *
2. The Department of Mad Scientist - Michael Belfiore
3. Buying Military Transformation - Dombrowski, Gholz

October 14

Blockchains

1. Blockchain Revolution - Don Tapscott & Alex Tapscott *
2. Crypto Currency, the Future of Money - Paul Vigna & Michael J. Casey
3. The End of Money - New Scientist

Space

1.  Crowded Orbits - James Clay Moltz *
2. Asteroid Mining 101 - John Lewis
3. The Little Book of Space, Kleinman

Driverless Cars

1.  Driverless - Hod Libson& Melba Kurman *
2. The great race for the car of the future - Levi Tillemann
3. The big data opportunity in our driverless future - Evangelos Simoudis

“*” marks the primary books.