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April 7th @ 4:15PM
Kevin Fu "Implantable Medical Devices: Security and Privacy for Pervasive, Wireless Healthcare" Steele Hall, Room 006
April 15th @ 4:30PM
Latanya Sweeney Carnegie Mellon University
Moore Hall, B03
May 5th @ 4:15PM
Umesh Shankar Google Health Steele Hall, Room 006
Activism in the Electronic Age: The impact of technology on political protest
Over-Exposure in the Digital World
ISTS Bulletin - Summer/Fall 2009
The Institute for Security, Technology, and Society (ISTS) at Dartmouth College is dedicated to pursuing research and education to advance information security and privacy throughout society. ISTS engages in interdisciplinary research, education and outreach programs that focus on information technology (IT) and its role in society, particularly the impact of IT in security and privacy broadly conceived. ISTS nurtures leaders and scholars, educates students and the community, and collaborates with its partners to develop and deploy IT, and to better understand how IT relates to socio-economic forces, cultural values and political influences.
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Emma Smithayer '12
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ISTS and the Neukom Institute have awarded Emma Smithayer ’12 the ISTS-Neukom Institute Internship Grant for the Spring 2010 term. Emma will be working with two non-profit organizations in Montevideo, Uruguay in association with the One Laptop Per Child program.
In December 2009, the Uruguayan government program, Plan Ceibal, completed its distribution of nearly 400,000 laptops to every public primary school student and teacher. Emma will work with Blogging Desde Infancia (Blogging Since Infancy), which runs blogging workshops for children across the country where volunteers show kids how to use blogs and other social media tools. She will also volunteer with Flor de Ceibo, which is based at the University of the Republic, Uruguay’s largest university. Flor de Ceibo provides general support by assisting in classrooms and organizing events for parents.
We’ll keep up with Emma during the Spring term through periodic updates she’ll post to the ISTS website and Facebook page. For interested students, the Summer 2010 internship grant applications are due on April 28th. Additional information can be found here.
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| From left: Jack Bowman ’11, Professor Sean Smith, Amy Zhang ’13, and computer science PhD student Scout Sinclair (photo by Joseph Mehling ’69) |
Associate Professor of Computer Science Sean Smith, along with Jack Bowman ’11, Amy Zhang ’13, and PhD student Scout Sinclair, is studying how physicians at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., use information technology to handle secure data. One of nearly 100 Dartmouth research projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), their study is part of Dartmouth’s Trustworthy Information Systems for Healthcare project (TISH). Read more here.
ISTS is also accepting applications for the National Science Foundation's Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service program. This program is similar to the IASP described above. One difference is in the payback portion of the obligations. Unlike the IASP, through which a scholar must serve one year of service for each year of scholarship to the Department of Defense, an SFS scholar can payback their service to any government organization. Another difference is in the funds provided for the scholarship. The SFS will provide full funding for tuition and room and board. The stipend of $8,000 for undergraduates and $12,000 for graduate students is in addition to that already given for room and board.
Additional information on the NSF's SFS program can be found here.
Students interested in applying to the SFS program should contact Tom Candon.
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| TISH Team Members (l-r) Eric Johnson, Sean Smith, David Kotz, Denise Anthony, and Andrew Gettinger (Photo by Joseph Mehling '69) |
This Dartmouth research will address fundamental challenges in information security in healthcare, such as protecting the security of clinical information while ensuring that clinicians can access information they need, and enhancing the collection of data from wearable sensor devices to enable physicians to better monitor patients' health with both security and privacy in mind. The Institute for Security, Technology, and Society (ISTS) led the proposal effort and was instrumental in bringing together faculty from departments across campus, as well as recruiting partners from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (White River Junction, Vt.), Intel Labs, and Google. The TISH team brings a multidisciplinary approach to developing and analyzing information-sharing technology that ensures security and privacy while meeting the pragmatic needs of patients, clinical staff, and healthcare organizations to deliver efficient, high-quality care.
Click here for the project website and here for Dartmouth's press release on the project.
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Denise Anthony
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Chaos theory has the wonderful metaphor of a butterfly flapping its
wings causing the weather to change half way around the world to
indicate the interconnections between micro-level behaviors (one wing
flap) and macro-level events (a hurricane) that are impossible to
perceive by observing either level alone. We might do well to remember
this metaphor and the idea that individual behavior is connected to
global consequences when thinking about Internet security and the
recent revelations of major distributed denial of service (DDoS)
attacks against United States and South Korean government Web sites. Read more...
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