ITI Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS)

About the Distinguished Lecture Series

The ITI Distinguished Lecture Series features speakers who are international leaders in the field of information trust. For more information on the series, contact Vikram Adve.

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2009-2010 Series

For details on specific presentations, please see our calendar or follow the below links.

11/5/09 Moti Yung
Google, Inc., and Columbia University
"Kleptography: On the Difficulty of Institutionalizing Trust"

2008-2009 Series

Below is a list of the speakers in the 2008-2009 Lecture Series.

For details on specific presentations, please see our calendar or follow the below links.

12/1/08 Kevin W. Bowyer 
University of Notre Dame
"Next-Generation Iris Biometrics"
An MPG video of the talk is available (600 MB)
1/29/09 James Larus
Microsoft Research
"The Real Value of Testing"
3/17/09 Ari Juels
RSA, The Security Division of EMC
"RFID Tags: Making Silicon Stretch"
4/2/09 Raja Parasuraman
George Mason University
"Trust and Complacency in Human Interaction with Automated and Networked Systems"
4/28/09 Jean-Pierre Hubaux
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
"Security and Non-Cooperative Behavior in Wireless Networks"
A video of the lecture is available.

2007-2008 Series

Below is a list of the speakers in the 2007-2008 Lecture Series.

For details on specific presentations, please see our calendar or follow the below links.

10/18/07 Anil K. Jain
Michigan State University
"Biometric Recognition: A New Paradigm for Security." A PDF file of the slides from this talk is now available.
11/13/07 Charles C. Palmer
I3P & IBM
"Cyber Security's Missing Link"
1/22/08 Edward W. Felten
Princeton University
"Electronic Voting: Danger and Opportunity"
2/6/08 Deborah G. Johnson
University of Virginia
"Sociotechnical Trust in Information"
A PDF file of slides from this talk is now available.
2/20/08 Jonathan M. Smith
University of Pennsylvania
"Continuous Security"
3/13/08 Cynthia Dwork
Microsoft
"An Ad Omnia Approach to Defining and Achieving Private Data Analysis"
4/23/08 Paul C. Van Oorschot
Carleton University
"Authentication and Usability"

2006-2007 Series

Below is a list of the speakers who appeared in the 2006-2007 Lecture Series.

10/24/06 George Cybenko
Dartmouth College
"Process Detection for Cyber Security: Theory and Applications"
11/29/06 Ton Kalker
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories & Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
"The Rise and Fall of Digital Rights Management"
A PDF of the talk slides is available.
1/24/07 Farnam Jahanian
University of Michigan
"The Evolution of Internet Threats: A Perspective-Aware Approach to Network Security in the Botnet Era"
2/28/07 Bill Worley
Secure64 Software Corporation
"Genuinely Secure Systems"
A related white paper (PDF format) entitled "Eliminating Malware and Rootkits: Six Essential Characteristics of a Genuinely Secure OS" is now available. You can also download PDFs of his slides and a handout version of the slides.
3/13/07 Vern Paxson
International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
"Experiences With Countering Internet Attacks"
4/10/07 Thomas S. Mathews
IBM Systems and Technology Group
"Emerging System Software Requirements for Internet Based Computing Trends"

2005-2006 Series

Below is a list of the speakers who appeared in the 2005-2006 Lecture Series.

10/5/05 Jacob Abraham
The University of Texas at Austin
"Verification Challenges in Embedded System Design"
10/24/05 Matt Bishop
University of California, Davis
"Vulnerabilities Analysis"
11/2/05 Brian Randell
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
"Dependable Pervasive Systems"
1/19/06 Michael Reiter
Carnegie Mellon University
"Computer Security Meets Pervasive Computing - Security by, and for, Converged Mobile Devices"
2/22/06 John C. Knight
University of Virginia
"Faulty Human Communications: Its Impact on Dependability and What To Do About It"; a PDF handout of the slides from this talk is now available.
3/15/06 John Baras
University of Maryland
"Cooperative Games, Statistical Physics and Trust in Ad-Hoc Networks" (some electronic files related to this talk, and two other talks presented at UIUC by Prof. Baras, are available online; additionally, a Windows Media video of the entire talk is available online)
4/5/06 John Rushby
SRI International
"What Might a Science of Certification Look Like?"
5/3/06 Virgil D. Gligor
University of Maryland at College Park
"On the Evolution of Adversary Models in Security Protocols - from the Beginning to Sensor Networks"