Understanding the Science of Deception and Disinformation
Understanding the Science of Deception and Disinformation
As the bandwidth of digital media has grown exponentially over the last two decades, deception and its use in disinformation has become a globalised pandemic problem presenting challenges in every area of social interaction. Science research exploring how deception works has lagged empirical non-scientific research on deception badly, mostly as deception is a challenging problem spanning several distinct problem areas including information theory, decision theory, game theory, and cognitive cycles. This presentation will briefly present known challenges in deception research, deception effects, and key concepts in scientific modelling of deception using information theory, decision theory, game theory, and cognitive cycles. Finally, challenges in applying the theoretical models to practical problems will be discussed.
About the speaker
Lecturer, Monash University
Dr Carlo Kopp was one of the first generation Information Warfare researchers during the 1990s, when he produced multiple publications on information infrastructure vulnerability to electromagnetic threats. In 1999 he was one of the two researchers who independently identified the information theoretic basis of deception. Kopp is a multi-disciplinary researcher with over 600 works spanning computer systems and networks, information warfare, and a range of strategy and military science topics. He holds PhD and MSc degrees in Computer Science from Monash, a BE (Hons) degree in electrical engineering from UWA, and is a member of the ACM, Senior Member of the IEEE, and Associate Fellow in the AIAA.
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