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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Parker Phinney
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Starting with the Winter 2010 term, ISTS and the Neukom Institute are offering leave-term funding each term to support an undergraduate pursuing work experience at the nexus of our institutes missions. Parker Phinney's winning proposal will allow him to work as a technical intern for the Philadelphia-based organization OpenHatch. The vision of OpenHatch is "to make the open source community better connected, more productive, and ultimately well rewarded for its expertise." Parker will be working with OpenHatch programmers to develop a web application to encourage open source community growth.
Parker's past work experience includes internships at Creative Commons and with the Arts & Humanities Resource Center. He also founded Dartmouth's chapter of "Students for Free Culture" and is involved in the Student Assembly, and the Dartmouth Free Press.
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Tanzeem Choudhury
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A complement to the U.S.-based TED and TEDGlobal programs, TEDIndia aims to “bring together young world-changers and trailblazers who have shown unusual accomplishment and exceptional courage,” and “provide a snapshot of the creativity and innovation emerging from South Asia.” Choudhury’s current research involves developing machine learning techniques for systems that can reason about human activities, interactions, and social networks in everyday environments.
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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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