That’s next Tuesday! In New Jersey. Hope they record it! HatTip to Dave Lull.

DeBaun Auditorium

6 PM

A talk by Nassim Taleb. Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 6-7:30. DeBaun Auditorium.

A professor of risk engineering at New York University, Taleb argued in his 2007 blockbuster The Black Swan that unpredictable events, “black swans,” have a much bigger impact on our lives than experts generally acknowledge. Credited by New York Times columnist David Brooks with having foreseen our current global recession, Taleb is visiting Stevens to discuss a work-in-progress, Antifragility, which proposes how we can reduce the threat of black swans–and reap their potential benefits–in the realms of technology, business, medicine and politics.

via The Stevens Center for Science Writings Presents: Antifragility: How to Protect Ourselves From -and Exploit –Unpredictability | Stevens Institute of Technology.