Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
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Submitted by Suman Jana on Mon, 02/25/2019 - 4:34pm
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize the world in fields ranging from technology to medicine, physics and the social sciences. Yet as AI is deployed in these domains, recent work has shown that systems may be vulnerable to different types of attacks that cause them to misbehave; for instance, attacks that cause an AI system to recognize a stop sign as a speed-limit sign.
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Submitted by Ming Li on Mon, 02/25/2019 - 4:02pm
The adoption of services and applications that rely on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) is expected to continue its acceleration for the foreseeable future. Such services and applications include search and rescue, crop monitoring, real-time traffic monitoring, critical infrastructure inspections, and others.
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Submitted by Daniel Jackson on Mon, 02/25/2019 - 3:56pm
Computer networking and the internet have revolutionized our societies, but are plagued with security problems which are difficult to tame. Serious vulnerabilities are constantly being discovered in network protocols that affect the work and lives of millions. Even some protocols that have been carefully scrutinized by their designers and by the computer engineering community have been shown to be vulnerable afterwards. Why is developing secure protocols so hard?
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Submitted by Lujo Bauer on Mon, 02/25/2019 - 3:49pm
Machine learning algorithms are increasingly part of everyday life: they help power the ads that we see while browsing the web, self-driving aids in modern cars, and even weather prediction and critical infrastructure. We rely on these algorithms in part because they perform better than alternatives and they can be easy to customize to new applications. Many machine learning algorithms also have a big weakness: it is difficult to understand how and why they compute the answers they provide.
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Submitted by Aswin Sankaranara... on Mon, 02/25/2019 - 3:29pm
Many physical characteristics, such as face, fingerprints, and iris as well as behavioral characteristics such as voice, gait, and keystroke dynamics, are believed to be unique to an individual. Hence, biometric analysis offers a reliable solution to the problem of identity verification. It is now widely acknowledged that biometric systems are vulnerable to manipulation where the true biometric is falsified using various attack strategies; such attacks are referred to as Presentation Attacks (PAs).
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Submitted by Justin Cappos on Mon, 02/25/2019 - 3:19pm
Making modern software involves tools such as a source code management system, a verify/build/package system, and a repository for distributing software and updates. The security of this software chain is dramatically overlooked today, as many recent incidents demonstrate. Existing defenses provide piecemeal solutions to individual problems and, when combined, do not provide end-to-end guarantees.
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Submitted by Ashok Veeraraghavan on Mon, 02/25/2019 - 3:16pm
Many physical characteristics, such as face, fingerprints, and iris as well as behavioral characteristics such as voice, gait, and keystroke dynamics, are believed to be unique to an individual. Hence, biometric analysis offers a reliable solution to the problem of identity verification. It is now widely acknowledged that biometric systems are vulnerable to manipulation where the true biometric is falsified using various attack strategies; such attacks are referred to as Presentation Attacks (PAs).
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Submitted by Bryan Parno on Mon, 02/25/2019 - 2:57pm
Smart contracts, popularized by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, are programs that run atop financial infrastructure and command the flow of money according to user-defined algorithms. Such contracts can implement new, decentralized financial instruments or even virtual corporations defined only by the bundle of smart contracts programmatically governing their behavior.
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Submitted by Stephane Lafortune on Mon, 02/25/2019 - 12:54pm
Computer networking and the internet have revolutionized our societies, but are plagued with security problems which are difficult to tame. Serious vulnerabilities are constantly being discovered in network protocols that affect the work and lives of millions. Even some protocols that have been carefully scrutinized by their designers and by the computer engineering community have been shown to be vulnerable afterwards. Why is developing secure protocols so hard?
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Submitted by Reza Azarderakhsh on Mon, 02/25/2019 - 12:27pm
Quantum computers are believed to have a potential to perform specialized calculations beyond the reach of any supercomputer in existence today, threatening today's major public-key cryptography standards. Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) is devoted to the design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms that are resistant against any known attacks using quantum computers, but by themselves can be implemented using classical computing platforms, based on current semiconductor technologies.
