wise2006

WISE is a residential summer program (July 5-11) on the University of California, Berkeley campus that brings together graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and professors from all disciplines that are interested in Ubiquitous Secure Technology and the social, political, and economical ramifications that are associated with this technology. Women were strongly encouraged to attend, though all are welcome.

Professors from across the country came to Berkeley to teach power courses in several disciplines, including computer science, economics, law, and electrical engineering. The one-week program included rigorous classes in the morning, and allowed participants to explore through hands-on experiments and team-based projects in the afternoons.

The objectives of the TRUST WISE Institute are:

• To disseminate the most recent results in Cyber-security and privacy;
• To give enough information to the participants so that they can start a course or a research activity in Cyber-security and privacy;
• To create a network of interested parties in the area of cyber-security and privacy

Our tuition fee for summer 2006 was $2,500; however NSF-TRUST fellowships were available to US professors, post-doctoral fellows, and Ph.D. candidates studying at US universities. There was a maximum of 20 fellowships for Ph.D. candidates, post-doctoral fellows, and professors of all levels for the course. The deadline for applications for fellowships was March 31, 2006, fellowship recipients have been notified.

Between 20 and 30 participants was selected from a nationwide applicant pool of people who have demonstrated outstanding academic talent. Women were given strong consideration although everyone was encouraged to apply. No prior experience in computer programming, law, or engineering was required, but we expected students to be able to handle college-level material at a rapid pace.

The short courses provided fundamentals and recent new developments in selected areas of TRUST. Emphasis was be on techniques and theory only recently developed that are not available in texts or standard university courses. The instructors are well-known for their research and teaching.

WISE schedule:

There were three sessions per day:

Session 1 ran from 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Session 2 ran from 10:30 a.m. - noon
Session 3 ran from 2:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m.

All sessions took place in the Wozniak Lounge, 430-8 Soda Hall.

Wednesday, July 5:

9:00 a.m., Session 1 - Xuan Xue, Vanderbilt University
Security in Wireless Sensor Network

10:30 a.m., Session 2 - Joan Feigenbaum, Yale University

12:00 p.m. - Lunch

2:00 p.m., Session 3 - Jack Lerner, UC Berkeley

Thursday, July 6

9:00 a.m., Session 1 - Cynthia Irvine, Naval Postgraduate School

10:30 a.m., Session 2 - Joan Feigenbaum, Yale University

12:00 p.m. - Lunch

2:00 p.m., Session 3 - Rebecca Wright, Stevens Institute of Technology

Friday, July 7

9:00 a.m., Session 1 - Cynthia Irvine, Naval Postgraduate School

10:30 a.m., Session 2 - Rebecca Wright, Stevens Institute of Technology

12:00 p.m. - Lunch

2:00 p.m., Session 3 - Yuan Xue, Vanderbilt University
(Slides included in earlier presentation)

Monday, July 10

9:00 a.m., Session 1 - Jeanette Wing, Carnegie Mellon University
Automatic Generation and Analysis of Attack Graphs

10:30 a.m., Session 2 - Vijay Rhagavan, UC Berkeley

12:00 p.m. - Lunch

2:00 p.m., Session 3 - Shankar Sastry, UC Berkeley

3:30 p.m., Session 4 - Jack Lerner, UC Berkeley

Tuesday, July 11

9:00 a.m., Session 1 - Jeanette Wing, Carnegie Mellon University
(Slides included in earlier presentation)

10:30 a.m., Session 2 - Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University
Network Experimentation and the DETER Testbed for Network Security Experiments

12:00 p.m. - Lunch

2:00 p.m., Session 3 - Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University
(Slides included in earlier presentation)

3:30 p.m., Closing Remarks - Ruzena Bajcsy, UC Berkeley

If you are interested in this institute, contact Ruzena Bajcsy (bajcsy at eecs berkeley edu).

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