IP: CRA Digital Government Fellows to speak at FCC

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Donnajean Ward <ward () cra org>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:44:26 -0400
To: dave () farber net

CRA Digital Government Fellows to speak at FCC

On April 29, 2002, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., in the Commission meeting
room, the Federal Communications Commission's Office of Engineering and
Technology will host David Wager of UC Berkeley for an talk on the security
of wireless networks.  Wagner, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science
Division at the University of California at Berkeley, will discuss security
issues associated with 802.11 wireless networks, presenting the history,
outlining risks and challenges for wireless security, and presenting recent
research results and future directions.  Dr. Wagner has extensive
experience in computer security and cryptography, and has published two
books and over 50 technical publications.  He and his Berkeley colleagues
are known for discovering a wide variety of security vulnerabilities in
various cellphone standards, 802.11 wireless networks, and other widely
deployed systems.  

On May 7, 2002 from 2:30 a.m. to 4:00pm, Amy Greenwald, Assistant Professor
of Computer Science at Brown University will discuss combinatorial auctions
and the problem of choosing a set of winning bids that maximizes
revenue---the so-called winner determination problem.  Her talk will
present an architecture for autonomous bidding in simultaneous auctions.
Dr. Greenwald's primary research area is the study of economic interactions
among computational agents.  Her primary methodologies are game-theoretic
analysis and simulation.

Both David Wagner  and Amy Greenwald are presenting their talks under the
auspices of Computing Research Association's 2002 Digital Government
Fellows Program (http://www.cra.org/Activities/fellows/dgf.html).  This
program seeks to bring early career computing researchers together with
government IT workers to explore topics of mutual interest.  The Computing
Research Association (CRA) is an association of more than 190 North
American academic departments of computer science, computer engineering,
and related fields; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and
academia engaging in basic computing research; and affiliated professional
societies. CRA's mission is to strengthen research and education in the
computing fields, expand opportunities for women and minorities, and
improve public and policymaker understanding of the importance of computing
and computing research in our society.

Both talks are open to the public.  Those who wish to attend will be seated
on a first-come first-serve basis. Reservations are neither accepted nor
required.  Real Audio and streaming video access to the meeting will be
available at http://www.fcc.gov.

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Donnajean Ward
Director of Programs
ward () cra org

Computing Research Association
1100 Seventeenth Street, NW
Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036-4632
202-234-2111 (tel)
202-667-1066 (fax)
http://www.cra.org (web)


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