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Speaker Series Calendar

Security Lecture Series

Recent speakers include

Postponed unti Spring 2009: Richard Clarke The President-Elect's National Security Challenges. (Distinguished Lecture Series)
January 15, 2009: Cliff Zou (University of Central Florida) The Next Generation Botnet Attack
December 16, 2008: Mark MacCarthy (Georgetown Univ.) Legislative and Regulatory Developments in Information Security
Dec 2, 2008: Peter L. Levin (President and CEO of DAFCA Inc.) Extending On-Chip Instrumentation to Hardware Assurance: An Architectural Proposal
Dec 9, 2008: Atinuke O. Diver (John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center) Preserving Liberty, Promoting Innovation: Privacy Issues in Intelligent Transportation Systems, What's the big deal?
November 25, 2008: Ethan Katz-Bassett (University of Washington) Hubble and Reverse Traceroute: Systems for Improving Internet Performance and Reliability
November 25, 2008: Raluca Ada Popa (MIT) Protecting Privacy in Location-Based Vehicular Services
Nov 18, 2008 Ravi Pappu (ThingMagic Inc.) RFID Privacy Without Tag Killing
Nov 10, 2008 Harlan Carvey (IBM) Forensic Analysis of Live Memory
October 7, 2008: Hany Farid (Darmouth- College) Digital Tampering and Forensics
September 25, 2008: Daniel Bailey (RSA Laboratories) Wireless Authentication Token Protocols
September 22, 2008: Capt. Mike Kalmbach (MA State Police & MA Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force) Evidence Handling, Search Warrants, and Subpoeanas
September 9, 2008: Christof Paar (U. Bochum, Germany) On the Power of Power Analysis in the Real World, or: How to Get into Cars with your Osciloscope
July 24, 2008: Dr. Ravi Pappu (ThingMagic) Reality Search Engines
May 30, 2008: Haifeng Yu (National University of Singapore) Defending Against Sybil Attacks Via Social Networks
May 16, 2008: Bill Teel(Teel Technologies) Mobile Phone Forensics

Thanks to generous funding from the NSF's Scholarship For Service program (Capacity Building Track), we were pleased to offer a series of visiting speakers on Information Assurance in 2006-2007:

October 11, 2007: Randal Burns (Johns Hopkins Univ.). Auditing Long-Term Archives Built on Untrusted Storage Systems
October 5, 2007: Brian Chess (Fortify Software). Secure Programming with Static Analysis
April 13, 2007: Ian Goldberg (Univ. Waterloo). Improving the Robustness of Private Information Retrieval
April 9, 2007: Ladon Cox (Duke Univ.). Too much information: Helping people keep their private data to themselves
April 4, 2007: Ronald L. Rivest (MIT). DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES: Security of Voting Systems
March 26, 2007: Sozo Inoue (Kyushu University). Dependable RFID Systems
January 25, 2007: Gildas Avoine (MIT). Can we use proxy-readers to relieve back-end RFID systems?

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
Watch the streaming video

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.
Watch the streaming video

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

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