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Interoperable, reconfigurable systems of medical devices are the future of medical technology. They will improve care outcomes by catching common mistakes, reduce clinician cognitive workload by suppressing false alarms, and streamline and simplify continued care, especially when patients move between different medical facilities. As the penetration of "smart" networked medical technology increases, we will see increased problems with cybersecurity of such systems.

Language-based security (the use of programming language abstractions and techniques for security) holds the promise of efficient enforcement of strong, formal, fine-grained, application-specific information security guarantees. However, language-based security has not yet reached its potential, and is not in widespread use for providing rich information security guarantees.

The past decade has seen a growing reliance on data driven technologies, including recommendation systems, targeted advertising, and search personalization. This growth in big data has made data privacy into a central concern. The central question raised is: how can we continue to extract useful information from large datasets, while provably protecting some measure of privacy for the individuals contained in these datasets? This research centers around advancing the state of the art in privacy preserving data analysis.

Social networking and sensor-rich devices such as smartphones are becoming increasingly pervasive in today's society. People can share information concerning their location, activity, fitness, and health with their friends and family while benefiting from applications that leverage such information. Yet, users already find managing their privacy to be challenging, and the complexity involved in doing so is bound to increase.

The ability to communicate and readily access information helps make possible positive social and political change. The Internet's effects on developing nations' educational, economic, and governmental institutions have been well explored by social scientists and technical experts. However, in unfortunately many instances, undemocratic governments monitor and censor Internet communication to attempt to control their populations.