Colloquia
CloudTrust Mini Symposium @ BU
Thursday, May 10, 2012, 1:00 – 5pm Hariri Institute
Shining Light on Leakage of Private Information Via the Web
Speaker: Craig Wills, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Host: Azer Bestavros
Friday, April 27, 2012, 3:00 pm in PHO 203
Security Unveiled: How and Why People Hack
Speaker: David Seidman, Microsoft
Wednesday, February8,2012, 4:00 pm in Hariri Institute
Security Informatics: An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Security
Speaker: Amy Sliva, College of Computer Science and Political Science Northeastern University
Friday, December 9, 2:00 pm in MCS 148
The First Charles River Crypto day
Friday, December 2, 9:30 am in Hariri Institute
Cyber Citizen Forum
Wednesday, November 16, 5:00 pm in Photonics room 206
Cybersecurity Roundtable
Wednesday, November 16, 2:00 pm in Hariri Institute
Selling Privacy at Auction
Speaker: Aaron Roth, Microsoft Research, New England and UPenn
Friday, May 6, 3:30 pm in MCS 135
Media Landscape and Political Diversity in Twitter
Speaker: Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge University
Friday, April 29, 3:00 pm in MCS 148
PCPs and the Hardness of Generating Private Synthetic Data
Speaker: Jon Ullman, Harvard University
Friday, February 18, 2011, 3:00 pm in MCS 135
Blackhat 2011 recap
Speaker: Ari Trachtenberg, Boston University Electrical and Computer Engineering
Friday, January 28, 2010, 10-11am in PHO 339
On Unconditionally Secure Computation with Vanishing Communication Cost
Speaker: Ye Wang, Boston University Electric and Computer Engineering
Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 10:00 am in MCS 137
Analyzing Private Network Data
Speaker: Gerome Miklau, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Host: Evimaria Terzi
Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 4:00 pm in MCS 135
Professional Development Lecture Event
Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 1:00 – 5:00 pm in Boston University George Sherman Union (GSU)
Engineering for a Trustworthy Cloud
Speaker: Jim Miller, Microsoft
Host: Azer Bestavros
Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 3:00 pm in MCS 135
Real-world Polymorphic Attack Detection
Speaker: Evangelos Markatos
Host: Mark Crovella
Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 11:00 am in MCS 135
Robust Mechanisms
Friday, May 7, 2010, 3:00 pm in MCS 135
5th Annual Boston University Student Conference on Information Assurance and Cyber Security 2010
Friday, May 7th, 9:00 AM – 12:00 Noon
(808 Commonwealth Ave, Fuller Building – PC Labs, Room 264)
Cloudy, Without a Chance of Data Loss
Speaker: Kevin Bowers, RSA Labs
Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 3:00 pm in MCS 135
SPDY — Google’s Experimental Protocol for a Faster Web
Speaker: Chris Benzel, Google Labs, Cambridge
Host: Azer Bestavros
Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 3:00 pm in MCS 135
The Internet – Coming of Age
Speaker: Louis Pouzin
Thursday, May 7, 2009, 5:00 pm in Room 304, BU School of Management, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Privacy-aware auctions using rational cryptography
Speaker: Nikos Triandopoulos
Research Assistant Professor, Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security (RISCS) , Boston University
Thursday, May 7, 2009, 3:00 pm in MCS 135
Efficient Data Authentication in Distributed Environments
Nikos Triandopoulos, Cryptology and Security Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 1:15 pm in MCS 135
Toward Assurable and Robust Network Security Configurations: Optimizing Security and Usability
Ehab Al-Shaer, School of Computer Science, DePaul University
Host: Mark Crovella
Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 3pm-5pm in MCS 135
Refining Security: Process Control System Protection, Misuse Detection and Attack Response
Robert Cunningham, MIT Lincoln Labs
Host: Ari Trachtenberg
Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 3pm-5pm in MCS 135
RISCS hosted the 2007 CISSE Colloquium at Boston University
June 4-7, 2007 Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE)
April 10 Inaugural Symposium
Tuesday, April 4, 11:00 am in MCS 135
Security through measurement for wireless LANs
David Kotz, Dartmouth College, Institute for Security Technology Studies
Host: Mark Crovella
Tuesday, April 4, 11:00 am in MCS 135
An Economic Response to Unsolicited (spam) Communication
Marshall Van Alstyne, Informations Systems Dept., SMG, Boston University
Host: Steve Homer
Wednesday, February 15, 11:00 am in MCS 135
Authentication without Identification: from Theory to Practice
Anna Lysyanskaya, Informations Systems Dept., SMG, Boston University
Host: Leo Reyzin
Monday, December 19, 3:10 pm in MCS 135
Rational Secure Computation and Ideal Mechanism Dedign
Silvio Micali, MIT
Host: Leo Reyzin
Wednesday, November 9, 3:10 in Room CAS 313, 685 Commonwealth Ave.