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CIAS HIGHLIGHTS

March 2006

2006 Association for Computing Machinery Award honors UT's Boyer, Kaufmann and Moore for pioneering software verification tools...

February 2006

STOC 2006 Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award goes to UT Graduate Student Assistant Anup Rao...


CIAS SECURITY SEMINAR SPEAKER SERIES 2006

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About the series...

The CIAS Security Seminar Speaker Series is a collaborative national effort to heighten awareness of a wide variety of security issues, crucial in today's technologically savvy world. As the seminar series continues to expand, our need for sponsorship grows as well. Please contact us if you wish to be a part of the Center's efforts to share in-demand information in the increasingly important field of Information Assurance and Security. We welcome sponsorship offers as well as nominations for future speakers.


Previous Speakers

Andrew Myers, Cornell

Dan Wallach, Rice

Eric Lowe, SunSolaris

Fred Chang, NSA

George Cox, Intel

Golden Richard, UNO

Dickie George, NSA

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The People of CIAS

Lorenzo Alvisi -- Software reliability, distributed computing, fault tolerance, Byzantine replication, incentive-based systems

James C. Browne -- secure grid computing, model-based control, model-checking for UML

William Cook -- programming languages, safe queries

Michael D. Dahlin -- trustworthy large-scale systems, distributes systems, file systems, Byzantine fault tolerance, incentive-based systems

E. Allen Emerson -- software and hardware correctness, formal methods, model checking, temporal logic

Anna Gal -- computational complexity, fault tolerance, randomness, private computation

Warren A. Hunt Jr. -- microprocessor verification, formal models, specification and mechanical proofs

Simon Lam -- network security services, secure group communication

Calvin Lin -- compilers, error-checking

Aloysius K. Mok -- robust real-time systems, system architecture, software engineering

J Strother Moore -- mechanical theorem proving, ACL2

Lili Qiu -- wireless networks, network measurement, IP telephony, packet classification and security

Vitaly Shmatikov -- privacy, password cracking, analysis of security protocols, denial of service, fair exchange, anonymity, trust management

Harrick M. Vin -- packet-processing systems, distributed systems, real-time systems

Sriram Vishwanath -- information theory, wireless communication

Emmett Witchel -- hardware and operating system support for security, fault diagnosis

William D. Young -- automated reasoning, computer security, program verification

Yin Zhang -- computer networks, anomoly and intrusion detection, network measurement, XML routing, overlay routing and multi-homing

David Zuckerman -- pseudorandomness, cryptography and security