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Now Do Voters Notice Review Screen Anomalies?

Mike Byrne is a Professor of Psychology and Computer Science at Rice University. His primary research areas are concerned with usability of technological systems and mathematical/computational models of human cognition and performance with a strong interest in understanding human error. This includes basic scientific work on theories of human cognition and performance as well as applied usability testing efforts, particularly in the area of voting. His research has been funded by NASA, the Office of Naval Research, NIST, and the NSF. Mike received a B.S.

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Learning to Read Encrypted VoIP Conversations

Fabian Monrose is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been an active computer security researcher for over 12 years, and has held positions in both industry and academia. He received his Ph.D. from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.

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A Perspective on Transitioning Reserach to an Open Source Product

Vern Paxson is a Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and also has affiliations with the International Computer Science Institute and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on network measurement and analysis, high-performance monitoring of Internet traffic to detect malicious activity, and addressing the threat of botnets and the underground economy that they fuel.

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SaTC 2012 Wishlist

Eric Grosse is Vice President - Security Engineering at Google in Mountain View CA, leading a team of approximately 250 who ensure systems and data stay safe and users' privacy remains secure. Improved and wider use of SSL, stronger consumer authentication technology, detection and blocking of foreign espionage, transparency on government request for data, sophisticated malware analysis, tools and frameworks for safer building of web applications are among the achievements of the Google Security Team.

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3 Dubious Concepts in Science of Security

Dusko Pavlovic is Professor of Information Security at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the founder of ASECOLAB (Adaptive Security and Economics Lab, asecolab.org). He also holds a part time Chair in Security at the University of Twente, and a Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford.

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Science of Security Virtual Organization

Janos Sztipanovits is currently the E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering and professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He is founding director of the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) at Vanderbilt University. Between 1999 and 2002, he worked as program manager and acting deputy director of DARPA Information Technology Office.

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Science of Security: Historical Perspective

Fred B. Schneider is Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.  He joined Cornell's faculty in Fall 1978, having completed a Ph.D. at Stony Brook University and a B.S. in Engineering at Cornell in 1975.  Schneider currently also serves as the Chief Scientist for the NSF-funded TRUST Science and Technology Center. Schneider was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1992), the Association of Computing Machinery (1995), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2008).

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Science of Cyber Security: Modeling, Composition, and Measurement

Andre Scedrov received his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1981 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a Professor of Mathematics and a Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His contributions are in logic, programming language semantics, and most recently, in information assurance. He has written over 90 research articles and several books. Prof. Scedrov has led two projects under the Critical Infrastructure Protection and High Confidence, Adaptable Software University Research Initiative.

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ARL Science of CyberSecurity: Needs and Approach

Rob Erbacher is a computer scientist performing computer security research at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in Adelphi, MD. At ARL Dr. Erbacher is cooperative agreement manager (CAM) for the Science for Cyber cooperative agreement. Before joining ARL he was a senior principal scientist with the Northwest Security Institute (NWSI), a non-profit research organization based in Redmond, WA. Prior to joining NWSI, Dr. Erbacher was faculty in the Department of Computer Science Department at Utah State University.  Dr.