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COS in the News 2009
COS Faculty in the News
November 2009
- Carnegie Mellon Information Networking Institute will be awarding CyLab Usable Privacy and
Security Meritorious Achievement Certificates to PhD students who
complete the CUPS doctoral training program requirements. This
certificate will be available both to "CUPS trainees" who are funded
through the IGERT program as well as to "CUPS associates" who meet all
the program requirements, regardless of funding source or eligibility
for the IGERT program. More information and complete program
requirements are available at http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/igert/
October 2009
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July 2009
- July 24, 2009, Dr. Kathleen M. Carley and Ian McCulloh featured in article in Science Magazine, "Counterterrorism's New Tool: ‘Metanetwork’ Analysis," by John Bohannon.
- Dr. Kathleen M. Carley to give invited training seminar 7/2009 “Dynamic
Network Analysis and Security” CISDA Computational Intelligence for
Security and Defense Applications 2009, Ottawa, Ontario
- The CyLab Usable Privacy and Security (CUPS) Laboratory will sponsor the
fifth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) July 15-17, 2009
at Google in Mountain View, CA. This symposium will bring together an
interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human
computer interaction, security, and privacy. The program features
technical papers, workshops and tutorials, a poster session, panels and
invited talks, and discussion sessions. The SOUPS 2009 invited talk will
be given by Eric Sachs, product manager for Google security and internal
systems. Eric will discuss the question, "Redirects to login pages are
bad, or are they?" A panel discussion will examine usability of open
source security software. SOUPS 2009 is also sponsored by Google and
held in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI. http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/
June 2009
- Dr. Kathleen M. Carley featured in HSCB Newsletter.
- June 25-26, 2009,ONR Workshop on Pattern Detection for Merchant Marine Vessel Traffic, is being hosted by Dr. Kathleen M. Carley at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
- June 8-14, 2009, the CASOS Summer Institute is being hosted at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
- Dr. Kathleen M. Carley to give keynote 6/2009 “Dynamic Network
Analysis: New Capabilities and a Look into the Future.” Human
Behavior-Computational Intelligence Modeling Conference 2009, Oak Ridge,
Tennessee
May 2009
April 2009
- The Third IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies and Development (ICTD2009) will be held at CMU's Doha Campus April 17-19, 2009. Rahul Tongia is Program Co-Chair, and the global response to the call for papers has been exceptional (more info. at ictd2009.org)
- Dr. Kathleen M. Carley to give keynote 4/2009 “Dynamic Network Analysis”, Social Networks and Multiagent Systems Symposium @ AISB,
Edinburgh, Scotland.
COS Program News
- Terrill L. Frantz, a CASOS/COS PhD Candidate, has been selected to
participate in the 2009 Academy of Management (AOM) Doctoral Student
Consortium and will represent Carnegie Mellon during the event to be
held in August. The exclusive international event for PhD students is
sponsored jointly by the Organization and Management Theory (OMT)
Division and the Management and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division
of the AOM, and is held annually as an adjunct to the AOM's annual
conference; this year's conference will be held in Chicago, IL, USA. The
two-day consortium features a variety of presentations, interactive
discussion sessions, and workshops that involve fellow PhD students and
distinguish faculty. Selection to participate in the consortium is
competitive and is limited to ensure a high faculty/student ratio.
- Terrill Frantz, COS PhD student: The Research Methods Section of the Academy of
Management has awarded Terrill Frantz the Sage Publications/RM Division
Best Student Paper Award for his paper "Toward a
Confidence Estimate for the Most-Central-Actor Finding". The annual
award for the best student paper is part of the AOM's annual conference
to be held in August 2009. The paper is written by COS Ph.D. student
Terrill L. Frantz and Professor Kathleen M. Carley. The paper
introduces a innovative practice of providing a statistical confidence
estimate to accompany the reporting of the most-central actor according
to social network data. It describes and illustrates a practical,
non-parametric resampling approach for determining, applying and
evaluating this new confidence estimate.
- COS PhD student Jana Diesner was awarded a scholarship to attend the German
Academic International Network (GAIN).
These awards typically only go to PostDocs, and so it is highly
prestigious that Jana was awarded such a scholarship before she has even
proposed her Ph.D.. This year, GAIN will take place at the University
of California, San Francisco, in September 2009. The meeting is jointly
hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, the DAAD (German
Academic Exchange Service), and the DFG (German Research Foundation).
The purpose of the meeting is to connect German academics who work in
North America with funding agencies, and to provide information about
transatlantic research co-operations and return programs. The meeting
features workshops, networking events, and meetings with representatives
of various funding agencies.
- COS PhD student Patrick Kelley won first place at the ACM CHI 2009 Student Research Competition. Patrick presented a research poster at CHI 2009 and was selected to advanced to the next round in which he presented a 10-minute research presentation. His winning research project was titled "Designing a Privacy Label: Assisting Consumer Understanding of Online Privacy Practices." Patrick will go on to the ACM Grand Finals of the Student Research Competition at the end of the
year.
- The Carnegie Mellon Usable Privacy and Security (CUPS) Doctoral
Training program offers PhD students at Carnegie Mellon University a
fundamentally new, cross-disciplinary training experience that
prepares them to produce the key research advances necessary to
reconcile ostensible tensions between security, privacy and usability,
moving away from an "either-or" view of these goals to a deeper
understanding of underlying tradeoffs and eventually towards solutions
where security, privacy and usability are configured to reinforce each
other. The CUPS doctoral training program is supported through an NSF
IGERT grant. Thanks to this support, we are able to offer PhD
fellowships to U.S. citizens and permanent residents to participate in
the CUPS doctoral training program.
- COS Ph.D Student Serge Egelman has 3 papers at CHI 2009 this year.
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