Stevens, Columbia and IBM Research to hold Security and Privacy Day, Nov. 16
Meeting will focus on problems and possible solutions in cybersecurity
HOBOKEN, N.J. — Stevens Institute of Technology’s Department of Computer Science, Columbia University and IBM Research will hold their fourth bi-annual Security and Privacy Day on Friday, November 16. The one-day conference will take place in Room 104 of the Babbio Center on the Stevens campus in Hoboken.
The all-day meeting will bring together researchers and practitioners in government, academia and industry, to discuss problems and possible solutions in cybersecurity, both for e-commerce and homeland security. A particular emphasis of the meeting is to bring together those interested in communications security and end-to-end security. The keynote address, “The Computer in the Voting Booth,” will be delivered by Andrew W. Appel of Princeton University .
Among the speakers at the conference are two Assistant Professors who recently joined Stevens Computer Science department, Antonio Nicolosi, and Sven Dietrich. Nicolosi’s presentation will describe the results of his recent collaboration with IBM researchers on techniques to counter unauthorized redistribution of digital content during transmission of live events. Dietrich's talk will outline the evolution of the command and control structures of malware from 1999 to today, with examples from DDoS and botnets.
The conference is free and open to the public, but registration is requested. For more information, directions to the campus or to register, please visit www.cs.stevens.edu/~jcordasc/security_and_privacy_day/.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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