TIW 2009: Trusted Infrastructure Workshop: Summer school on Architectures for Trustworthy Computing 8-12 June 2009, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
*** UPDATE: 70 full support student scholarships available! *** Sponsors are providing student support in the form of scholarships to aid selected students to attend the workshop. The scholarship includes coverage of all costs of workshop attendance, including airfare (up to $500), lodging, and meals. Interested... More
Privacy-aware auctions using rational cryptography
Thursday May 7, 2009, 3:00 pm in MCS 135 Speaker: Nikos Triandopoulos, Research Assistant Professor, Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security (RISCS) , Boston University Abstract:We consider enhancing with privacy concerns a large class of auctions, which include sealed-bid single-item auctions but also general multi-item multi-winner auctions, our assumption being... More
The Internet – Coming of Age
Thursday May 7, 2009, 5:00 pm in Room 304, BU School of Management, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston Speaker: Louis Pouzin Louis Pouzin is one of the pioneers of computer communications. He invented the concept of datagams or connectionless communication as the foundation for modern networking. As the director of the Cyclades... More
Student Job Fair: Job Opportunities at NSA
Monday, April 6, 2009 5:00 - 6:00 pm, 111 Cummington Street (MCS building) Room 135 Join representatives of the National Security Agency to learn about career opportunities in information assurance and intelligence. NSA is The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) is home to America's codemakers and codebreakers. It... More
Best Student Paper award at the MIT Spam Conference
March 26, 2009 Sarah Zatko, a doctoral student at CAS Computer Science Department of the College of Arts and Sciences, won the Best Student Paper award at the MIT Spam Conference, March 26, 2009, (http://projects.csail.mit.edu/spamconf/agenda.html ). The paper, entitled “Markets Can Cure Spam Zombies Too”, is in collaboration with Professor Marshall... More