Wanted: A few good students

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Please forward to the best and brightest students...
Deadline Dec 15, 2005.


The PhD Program in Computation, Organizations and Society (COS)
at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science
is looking for a few good students to help save the world.
All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.
Please spread the word.  (www.cos.cs.cmu.edu)

COS prepares students to be tomorrow's leaders in constructing,
evaluating, and reasoning with software that is accountable to society,
business, policy, and law. Carnegie Mellon's innovative program fuses
disciplines as diverse as organizational behavior, cognitive psychology,
biology, privacy, social network analysis, artificial intelligence  
and computation.
Combining both empirical and computational approaches, students
partner in the creation, evaluation and use of future computational  
tools,
measures, and technologies for meeting diverse needs and increasing
the scientific, organizational and policy understanding of complex  
social,
corporate, market, legal, national, and international issues.

Graduate Research Assistantships (which cover tuition and stipend)
are available for incoming students in many areas.
Some particular areas in which research assistants are currently  
sought include:

   * biometrics (fingerprints, face recognition)
   * medical and DNA privacy (data anonymization, data mining)
   * identity management
   * homeland security (privacy-enhanced link analysis)
   * assistive technology for the aging

Research areas of COS faculty in which Research Assistantships
are generally available include:
   Automated negotiation
   Dynamic network modeling and analysis
   Electronic market mechanisms
   Multi-agent systems
   Privacy technology (including surveillance, video, GPS)
   Spam prevention technologies
   Privacy rights managements
   Usable security and privacy

Students in COS are expected to come directly from undergraduate
programs or from industry or government. Students must have an
undergraduate and/or master level degree and are expected to already
have had a solid exposure to computation and math/science. Students
apply to COS because of their desire to do research at the confluence
of computer science, management, social science, law and/or policy.
Students are expected to generally be pioneers who are unsatisfied
with traditional degree programs and have strong interest in  
multidisciplinary
resarch incorporating vigorous computational approaches.

More information about the program is available at www.cos.cs.cmu.edu.
Further information: contact Monika De Reno, Program Manager, at (412) 
268-3163.
Deadline: December 15, 2005.


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Latanya Sweeney, Ph.D.
Director, Laboratory for International Data Privacy
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Technology and Policy
School of Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University     Voice: (412)268-4484
1301 Wean Hall                       Fax:    (412)268-6561
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA     Email: latanya () privacy cs cmu edu

http://privacy.cs.cmu.edu/index.html

http://privacy.cs.cmu.edu/people/sweeney/
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