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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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John Stewart
Sr. Technical Leader, Cyber Security, EPRI
Securing Grid Control Systems
Friday, January 12, 2018
Sudikoff L045 Trust Lab
12:00 Noon
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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
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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
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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
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V.S. Subrahmanian
Dartmouth Distinguished Professor in Cybersecurity, Technology, and Society
Bots, Socks, and Vandals
Tuesday, November 14th
Carson L01
5:00 PM
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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
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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
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Salvatore J. Stolfo
Columbia University
A Brief History of Symbiote Defense
Tuesday, October 31st
Rockefeller 003
5:00 PM
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ISTS Information Pamphlet
Institute for Security, Technology, and Society
Dartmouth College
6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
Hanover, NH 03755 USA
info.ists@dartmouth.edu
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.
