2005-2006 AbstractsComputer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series:Security Engineering ChallengesKevin Cariker, Raytheon Garland Division
2:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 13, 2005 AbstractSecurity Engineering is a relatively new engineering discipline born out of the Internet explosion in the last 12 years. I will discuss several key difficulties related to security engineering, including
BiographyKevin Cariker is a 1986 Texas A&M graduate with a B.S. in Computer Science. He started his career with E-Systems Corp. in 1986 as a Software Engineer, and became a Raytheon employee in 1995 when Raytheon purchased E-Systems. Kevin is currently Raytheon Garland Division's Security Engineering Chief Engineer. In this role, he provides technical leadership for a team of 70 security engineers supporting 10 customer programs. Kevin also supports the development of custom security software applications, including on the Raytheon High-Speed Guard. His first 12 years with E-Systems and Raytheon covered the whole software development lifecycle: architecture, design, code, module, integration, and verification. This background serves as a solid foundation for the security engineering work he began in 1997. Kevin is currently a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and an Information Systems Security Engineering Professional (ISSEP). Staff Contact: Kay Jones (kay@cs.tamu.edu)
Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series:(Joint with Humanities Informatics Lecture Series) Information Technology in Service to Humanities and Social SciencesRuzena Bajcsy, University of California, Berkeley
4:00 p.m., Monday, November 7, 2005 AbstractIn this presentation we shall outline the opportunities and challenges for collaboration between Information technologists (IT) and Humanities and Social Science. The opportunities for IT researchers: The Humanities and Social Sciences are generating more and more data (terabytes and Petabytes) that need to be archived preserved and searched based on content. There is a need for fast networking, visualization of large data sets in real time. There is big problem with security and privacy and intellectual property of the information. The opportunities for Humanists and Social Sciences: Ability to preserve and archive multimodal information for future generations. The ability to share widely data/information with researchers and users around the world. The ability to examine/analyze spatial and temporal evolution of the historical and present data available and make lessons learned. The challenges for both communities are: the Cultural divide. I will give a few examples of technologies that demonstrate all the above problems and opportunities. BiographyDr. Ruzena Bajcsy (buy chee) is a professor of EECS Department at UC Berkeley and Director emeritus of CITRIS since January 2005. Before that she was appointed Director of CITRIS at the University of California, Berkeley on November 1, 2001. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she was Assistant Director of the Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) between December 1, 1998 and September 1, 2001. As head of National Science Foundations CISE directorate, Dr. Bajcsy managed a $500 million annual budget. She came to the NSF from the University of Pennsylvania where she was a professor of computer science and engineering. Dr. Bajcsy is a pioneering researcher in machine perception, robotics and artificial intelligence. She is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Berkeley. She was also Director of the University of Pennsylvanias General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception Laboratory, which she founded in 1978. Dr. Bajcsy has done seminal research in the areas of human-centered computer control, cognitive science, robotics, computerized radiological/medical image processing and artificial vision. She is highly regarded, not only for her significant research contributions, but also for her leadership in the creation of a world-class robotics laboratory, recognized world wide as a premiere research center. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as the Institute of Medicine. She is especially known for her wide-ranging, broad outlook in the field and her cross-disciplinary talent and leadership in successfully bridging such diverse areas as robotics and artificial intelligence, engineering and cognitive science. Dr. Bajcsy received her masters and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Slovak Technical University in 1957 and 1967, respectively. She received a Ph.D. in computer science in 1972 from Stanford University, and since that time has been teaching and doing research at Penns Department of Computer and Information Science. She began as an assistant professor and within 13 years became chair of the department. Prior to her work at the University of Pennsylvania, she taught during the 1950s and 1960s as an instructor and a ssistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Department of Computer Science at Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. She has served as advisor to more than 50 Ph.D. recipients. In 2001 she received an honorary doctorate from Universty of Ljubljana in Slovenia In 2001 she became a recipient of the ACM A. Newell award. Faculty Contact: Rick Furuta (furuta [at] cs.tamu.edu) Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series:EPICS: Integrating Engineering Education and Community ServiceLeah H. Jamieson Purdue University
4:00 p.m., Monday, March 6, 2006 AbstractThe importance of linking science and engineering fields to societal needs is gaining attention with reports such as the National Academy of Engineerings publications on The Engineer of 2020. The Engineering Projects in Community Service EPICS program is proving to be a successful model for integrating engineering design with community contexts. EPICS highlights the ways that long-term, for-credit projects in the community provide the time and context for experiences that enable our students to:
Initiated at Purdue in 1995, EPICS programs are now operating at 16 universities and one high school. Over 2000 students have participated in EPICS courses at Purdue since 1995; in the last academic year; over 1500 students on over 150 teams participated at the 16 EPICS universities. In 2005, EPICS was awarded the National Academy of Engineerings Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. BiographyLeah Jamieson is Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Education and Ransburg Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Dr. Jamieson has a S.B. in Mathematics from M.I.T. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University. She joined the faculty at Purdue in 1976. She is co-founder and Director of the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) Program. She will be 2007 President of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Jamieson has been recognized for her achievements in research, service, and teaching. She was elected a Fellow of the IEEE for her research on parallel processing algorithms, received the National Science Foundation Directors Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars for her contributions in research and education, and was elected to the U. S. National Academy of Engineering for innovations in integrating engineering education and community service. She is recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Societys Meritorious Service Award and the IEEE Millennium Medal. For her work with EPICS, she has received the American Society for Engineering Educations Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education and the IEEE Education Societys Harriet B. Rigas Outstanding Woman Engineering Educator Award. She was named 2002 Indiana Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. In 2005, Jamieson and colleagues Edward Coyle and William Oakes were awarded the National Academy of Engineerings Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. Dr. Jamieson's activities on behalf of women have been recognized with the Helen B. Schleman Gold Medallion from Purdue Mortar Board and the Violet Haas Award from Purdues Council on the Status of Women. Faculty Contact: Valerie Taylor (taylor [at] cs.tamu.edu) Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series:Combined Multipath Routing and Congestion Control: a Robust Internet ArchitectureDon Towsley University of Massachusetts, Amherst
4:00 p.m., Monday, April 17, 2006 AbstractNetwork management is complicated by uncertain traffic patterns and workloads. Flexible routing schemes mitigate some of the problems by making the exact location of capacity less important: if there is available capacity the routing scheme will find it. In this talk we propose a combined multipath routing and congestion control architecture that gives performance improvements to the end user and simplifies network dimensioning. We advocate multihoming and stepping stone routers to provide path diversity, and a congestion controller and path selection algorithm that automatically balances traffic across the lowest cost paths. Scalability of the architecture results from implementing the algorithms at end-systems. We illustrate on network topologies of interest the performance impact of our architecture: active use of two paths can (i) halve response times and (ii) double the load that a network can carry. Portions of this work are joint with P. Key and L. Massoulie, Microsoft Research, and with H. Han, C. Hollot, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, S. Shakkotai, R. Srikant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. BiographyDon Towsley holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science (1975) from University of Texas. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst in the Department of Computer Science. His research interests include networks and performance evaluation. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of the ACM and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. He has served as Program Co-chair of the joint ACM SIGMETRICS and PERFORMANCE '92 conference and the Performance 2002 conference. He is a member of ACM and ORSA, and is Chair of IFIP Working Group 7.3. He is a founder and current chair of the Computer Performance Foundation. Prof. Towsley has received the 1998 IEEE Communications Society William Bennett Best Paper Award and numerous best conference/workshop paper awards. Last, he has been elected Fellow of both the ACM and IEEE. Faculty Contact: Dmitri Loguinov (dmitri [at] cs.tamu.edu) |
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