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Science of Security Award, last call
From: dan () geer org
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:51:40 -0400
[forwarded sans headers] Dear Science of Security Community, The deadline for nominating a paper to the National Security Agency's Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition is Friday, March 31, 2017. Nominations can be submitted at http://cps-vo.org/group/sos/papercompetition. Please find details about the competition below. *ABOUT THE COMPETITION* In order to encourage the development of the scientific foundations of cybersecurity, the National Security Agency (NSA) established The Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition. NSA invites nominations of papers that show an outstanding contribution to cybersecurity science. A set of Distinguished Experts will review the nominations according to the criteria below. Awardees will be invited to NSA to receive the award and present the winning paper to an audience of cybersecurity experts. *NOMINATIONS AND ELIGIBILITY* Papers published in peer-reviewed journals, magazines, or technical conferences are eligible for nomination. The date of the publication must be between January 1st 2016 and December 31st 2016. Nominations should include, in 500 words or less, a nomination statement describing the scientific contribution of the paper and explaining why this paper merits the award. A strong nomination statement is desired and will be used as part of the criteria when evaluating paper submissions. Nominated papers must be available in English and PDF format. Nominations must be submitted via http://cps-vo.org/group/sos/papercompetition. The nominator may not be an author or co-author of the nominated paper. If a paper includes a reviewer as a co-author it may not be considered for an award. Papers may come from any field of cybersecurity research. (Please refer to the SoS-VO discussion forum What is Security Science? http://cps-vo.org/node/6041) *EVALUATION* A set of distinguished experts will review the submitted nominations and provide individual assessments to the NSA Research Directorate. The NSA Research Directorate will recommend awardees to the NSA Director of Research, whose decision will be final. Considerations in the evaluation of the nominated paper may include: Scientific merit and significance of the work reported, the degree to which the paper exemplifies how to perform and report scientific research in cybersecurity. Distinguished experts for the 5th annual competition: Prof. L. Jean Camp, Indiana University Dr. Robert Cunningham, Lincoln Laboratory Dr. Whitfield Diffie, Cybersecurity Advisor Dr. John Mclean, Naval Research Laboratory Prof. David Wagner, University California At Berkeley Dr. Dan Geer, In-q-tel Prof. Angela Sasse, University College London Prof. Stefan Savage, University Of California, San Diego Prof. Paul Van Oorschot, University Of Carleton Mr. Phil Venables, Goldman Sachs Dr. Jeannette Wing, Microsoft Research *TIMELINE* Submission Period Begins: December 15, 2016 Submission Period for Entries Ends: March 31, 2017 11:59 PM, EST. Evaluation Process for Entries Begins: April 1, 2017 Winners Notified: By September 15, 2017 Winners Announced: Fall 2017 _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunityinc com https://lists.immunityinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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