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Speaker Series Calendar

Security Lecture Series

Thanks to generous funding from the NSF's Scholarship For Service program (Capacity Building Track), we are pleased to offer a series of visiting speakers on Information Assurance.

Recent speakers include

Less recent speakers are listed below. Please watch the streaming video of each talk.

September 19, 2005
Anna Lysyanskaya, Brown Univ.
Authentication without Identification: from Theory to Practice
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Host: Kevin Fu

November 21, 2005
Dawn Song, CMU.
Sting: a Self-healing Automatic Defense System against Zero-day Exploit Attacks
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Host: Mark Corner

October 3, 2005
Chenxi Wang, CMU.
Worm Containment: Theory and Practice
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Host: Gerome Miklau

November 28, 2005
Roger Dingledine, The Free Haven Project.
Anonymous communication for the U.S. Department of Defense...and you.
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Host: Kevin Fu

October 3, 2005
(SPECIAL TIME)

Tal Malkin, Columbia University.
Algorithmic Tamper-Proof Security
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Host: Kevin Fu

December 5, 2005
Jessica Staddon, PARC.
Privacy support for e-commerce and information retrieval
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Host: Kevin Fu

October 17, 2005
(SPECIAL TIME)

Jeff Schiller, MIT.
Operational Security

Host: Kevin Fu

December 12, 2005
Niels Provos, Google.
Honeyd Virtual Honeypots and their Applications
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Host: Mark Corner

October 17, 2005
Rebecca Wright, Stevens.
Privacy-Preserving Data Mining in the Fully Distributed Model
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Host: Gerome Miklau

February 2, 2006
Microsoft Security Day at UMass
Jointly with the School of Management

  • Barbara Chung
    "Understanding Microsoft’s Security Response Process"
  • Diane Curtis
    "Meeting The Challenge Of Today’s Internet"
  • Philip DesAutels
    "Committing to Your Customers" (at the SoM)

Host: Brian Levine
(sorry no video available)

October 31, 2005
(SPECIAL TIME)

Adam Stubblefield, JHU.
Reverse-Engineering Resistance and Breaking the Two-Time Pad
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Host: Kevin Fu

February 15, 2006
Simson Garfinkel, Harvard University.
Hard drive forensics
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Host: Kevin Fu

November 7, 2005
Rodney J. Petersen, EDUCAUSE.
The Emerging Framework for Information Security Law and Policy
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Host: Rick Adrion

March 27, 2006
Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems Labs
National Security on the Line
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Host: Kevin Fu

 

April 10, 2006
Ben Adida, MIT CSAIL
Direct Verification of Elections with Cryptography
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Host: Kevin Fu

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Speakers who visited Fall 2004 are listed below. Please watch the streaming video of each talk.

October 4, 2004
Clay Shields, Georgetown Univ.
Catching Hackers: Towards Holding Computer Attackers Responsible for their Actions
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November 15, 2004
Steve Zdancewic, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Language-based Security and Secure Program Partitioning
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October 12, 2004
Carla Brodley, Tufts Univ.
Behavioral Authentication for Computer Security
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November 29 , 2004
David Martin, UMass Lowell
Web and Email Tracking as a Matter of Course
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November 1, 2004
Joan Feigenbaum, Yale Univ.
Sensitive Information in the Wired World
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December 6, 2004
David R. Jefferson, Lawrence Livermore National Labs
What's so hard about secure electronic voting?
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November 8th, 2004
George Danezis, Cambridge Univ.
Towards a discipline of Traffic Analysis
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December 13, 2004
Dan Wallach, Rice Univ.
The Risks of Electronic Voting
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