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	William Regli, Ph.D. Director of the Institute for Systems Research at the Clark School of Engineering, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland at College Park A New Type of Thinking Friday, June 22, 2018 Life Sciences Center 105 11:00 AM
	Dr. Gautam Shroff Vice President, Chief Scientist, and Head of Research at Tata Consultancy Services Enterprise AI for Business 4.0: from Automation to Amplification Thursday, June 07, 2018 Haldeman 041 Kreindler Conference Room 3:30 PM
	John P Dickerson Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland Using Optimization to Balance Fairness and Efficiency in Kidney Exchange Monday, May 21st Kemeny Hall 008 3:30 PM
	Jeanne Shaheen U.S. Senator from New Hampshire Russian Interference in American Politics and Cyber Threats to Our Democracy Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Alumni Hall (Hopkins Center) 11:00 AM
	Lisa Monaco Former Homeland Security Advisor to President Obama In Conversation: Lisa Monaco, Fmr Homeland Security Advisor to President Obama Tuesday, February 13, 2018 Filene Auditorium (Moore Building) 5:00 PM Sponsored by The Dickey Center for International Understanding
	John Stewart Sr. Technical Leader, Cyber Security, EPRI Securing Grid Control Systems Friday, January 12, 2018 Sudikoff L045 Trust Lab 12:00 Noon
	M. Todd Henderson Professor of Law, University of Chicago Hacking Trust: How the Social Technology of Cooperation Will Revolutionize Government Thursday, January 11, 2018 5:00pm-6:30pm Room 003, Rockefeller Center Sponsored by: Rockefeller Center
	Dr. Elizabeth Bowman U.S. Army Research Laboratory Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Information: Army Social Computing Research Tuesday, December 5th Haldeman 041 Kreindler Conference Room 4:00 PM
	Dr. Fabio Pierazzi Royal Holloway University of London Network Security Analytics for Detection of Advanced Cyberattacks Tuesday, November 28th Sudikoff Trust Lab (L045) 12:30 PM
	V.S. Subrahmanian Dartmouth Distinguished Professor in Cybersecurity, Technology, and Society Bots, Socks, and Vandals Tuesday, November 14th Carson L01 5:00 PM
	Rand Beers ('64) Big Data, the Internet, and Social Media: The Road to the November 2016 Election Wednesday, November 8th Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall) 4:30 PM
	Wanna See Something REALLY Scary? ISTS Looks at the Dark Web on Halloween Night Tuesday, October 31st Sudikoff 045 Trust Lab (dungeon) 7:30 PM - RSVP Space is Limited
	Salvatore J. Stolfo Columbia University A Brief History of Symbiote Defense Tuesday, October 31st Rockefeller 003 5:00 PM
	STAR-Vote: A Secure, Transparent, Auditable and Reliable Voting System Professor Dan Wallach Rice University Thursday April 27, 2017 Carson L01, 5:00 PM

Pandora's Power Grid - What Can State Attacks Do and What Would be the Impact?

Ben Miller
Chief Threat Officer, Dragos, Inc.
Tuesday May 2, 2017
Kemeny 007, 4:30 PM

Factual Echo Chambers? Fact-checking and Fake News in Election 2016.

Professor Brendan Nyhan
Dartmouth College
Thursday May 4, 2017
Rocky 001, 5:00 PM

Espionage and Intelligence

Professor Dickie George
Johns Hopkins University
Thursday May 11, 2017
Rocky 001, 5:00 PM

A Nation Under Attack: Advanced Cyber-Attacks in Ukraine

Ukrainian Cybersecurity Researchers
Thursday April 6, 2017
Oopik Auditorium 5:30 PM

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Hardware-Based Security Laboratory

Project Summary

Securing computation persists in being a significant unsolved hard problem in our nation's information infrastructure. A simple look at history---or the most recent issues of BugTraq or even The New York Times---show that, over and over again, society cannot manage to build and deploy computing applications that actually are secure.

When a problem persists in being unsolvable, it's time to consider changing the problem. In this case, an inescapable fact of computation is that it must take place on computing hardware. Consequently, a promising approach to making this hard problem easier is to change this basic hardware. This idea is not just a pie-in-the-sky lab dream, but rather is something coming in the next wave of real systems. Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) are already shipping, and the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) consortium continues to crank out new specifications; Intel will be shipping CPUs enabling virtualization (the VT chipset) and secure hypervisors (LT); AMD has its own alternatives. IBM is shipping the multicore CELL processor that uses hardware structure to protect user processes from malicious kernels; Intel promises that multicore will soon give us more processors at the client than we'll know what to do with.

Principal Investigator: Sean Smith, Department of Computer Science
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Funding: Department of Homeland Security, National Cyber Security Division (DHS-NCSD)