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CyberSTEM Camps at Maryland CyberSecurity CenterMC2 facilitates a wide variety of educational opportunities on the UMD campus. MC2 also sponsors a number of educational/outreach events for lower-school, middle-school, and high-school students, especially targeting women and under-…
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UMD Researcher Elissa Redmiles Presents at IEEE Security and PrivacyOn the first day of IEEE Security and Privacy, Elissa Redmiles from the University of Maryland Lablet, presented her paper she wote with fellow University of Maryland researchers Amelia Malone, and Michelle Mazurek. The paper was a study on how…
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Hot Research in Cybersecurity Fuels HotSoS 2016Carnegie Mellon University hosted HotSoS 2016, the Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security, on April 19-21 in Pittsburgh, PA. Researchers from multiple academic fields came together for presentations demonstrating methodical, rigorous…
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Deadline Extended -- Software-Defined Networking Posters Sought for WorkshopThe Workshop on Science of Security through Software-Defined Networking seeks poster submissions, which describe recently completed work, highly relevant results of work in progress, or successful systems and applications, in all areas related to…
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Register Now for HotSoS 2016The HotSoS Symposium and Bootcamp 2016 will soon be here April 19, 20 and 21 2016 at Carnegie Mellon University. It is not too late to register! If you plan to attend and have yet to register please do so at http://cps-vo.org/node/…
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The Lesson of Microsoft's TayInteresting article posted on ZDNet. It has several thoughful ideas in it that really can apply to research. 1) Customers wants are a lagging indicator of the Market.
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Column highlights SoS and the Hard ProblemsA guest column in Society for Engineering and Management Systems calls Science of Security and its 5 Hard Problems as an area that Industrial Engineers should be involved in and can add to the field. http://www.iienet2.org/SEMS/details.aspx?id=…
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How Reproducable is Science? - Taking SidesFollowing a study pushed last year, in which the authors tried to reproduce psycology experiments and found only 39% of studies were reproducable. The journal Science has further discussion of both sides of the reproduction of science. Also being…
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NSA Paper Competition Distinguished Expert Awarded ACM A.M. Turing AwardWhitfield Diffie was named by ACM as a 2015 Turing Award winner on February 29th. It was for his critial contributions to modern cryptography. He is also known in the Science of Security community for his opions as a Distingished expert…
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Science of Security (SoS) Annual Report 2015 PublishedScience of Security (SoS) Initiative details the progress of the activity in the SoS Annual Report 2015 recently published.
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How was Microsoft Office Mobile Designed?The lead interface designer who used to work for Microsoft details how he and team (1 other person) worked to develop the interface for Microsoft Office on Windows Phone. He discusses the balances between different platforms and the challenges of…
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White House Releaes Plan to Strength Cyber - Need for SoSThe White House annouced Cybersecurity National Action Plan and asked for its implimentation. This plan directs the Federal Government to take new action now and fosters the conditions required for long-term improvements in our approach to…