Together with the DIMACS Special Focus on Cryptography, the MACS project is pleased to co-host a workshop on Cryptography for the RAM Model of Computation. Workshop Overview When: June 8-10, 2016 Where: MIT’s Media Lab, room E14 LH-633 To register, or to see more details about the events such as program information and travel accommodations, please visit […]
In conjunction with Computer Science Education Week, researchers from Boston University hosted a free, hands-on cyber-security workshop at the MGHPCC on Saturday, December 12th. “Hacking with Holyoke Codes” introduced over 20 middle and high school students, along with their teachers and parents, to issues of cyber-security in today’s internet with instruction and activities geared towards helping […]
“Indistinguishability obfuscation” is a powerful concept that would yield provably secure versions of every cryptographic system we’ve ever developed and all those we’ve been unable to develop. But nobody knows how to put it into practice. Last week, at the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, MIT researchers showed that the problem of indistinguishability […]
The Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering at Boston University (BU) today announced the core industry partnerships for the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC). The core partners that have joined the project are: Brocade, Cisco, Intel, Lenovo, Red Hat and Two Sigma. These companies span all the segments of the industry critical […]
Working with students Aanchal Malhotra (GRS’19), Isaac Cohen (CAS’16), and Erik Brakke (CAS’16) last spring, Goldberg discovered a potential vulnerability in the Network Time Protocol (NTP), the software and rules that synchronize clocks on computers. The team developed attacks that could alter the time on computer systems, compromising other applications, such as the encryption schemes that […]
Recently, Bestavros and a Washington lobbyist for BU sat in the Capitol Hill office of Representative Katherine Clark, a Massachusetts Democrat on the House committee that oversees funding for the National Science Foundation. Bestavros wanted to thank her for pushing for recent funding, impress upon her the importance of continued support, and arm Clark with ammunition for […]
On July 8, Azer Bestavros met with staffers from the Department of Defense (DOD) and Homeland Security (DHS) to discuss several cybersecurity initiatives, including the Modular Approach to Cloud Security (MACS), a $10 million, five-year, National Science Foundation–funded project to help develop information systems with several layers of security measures. Bestavros also briefed officials on the Massachusetts Open Cloud […]
As governments across the country are beginning to embrace cloud computing, Boston University’s Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) project is recognized for its potential. Initiatives like the MOC hope to spur public-private sector innovation by creating a marketplace for customized infrastructure and platform services. Led by Boston University in collaboration with other area universities, including Harvard, MIT, […]
A project team of academia and industry experts is making headway on a multimillion-dollar cloud computing initiative announced by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick in April. If all goes as planned, the three-year project, known as the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), will pave the way for cloud consumers to customize infrastructure and platform services to best […]
“Open Innovation” was a strong theme running through the MIT Cloud Workshop held on September 29, 2014. Hosted by The Industry-Academia Partnership (IAP), the event featured talks on a range of nascent initiatives including the Massachusetts Open Cloud Initiative and IBM’s OpenPower Ecosystem. “Today’s clouds are owned, operated, and controlled by a single provider, and those […]