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From: Gaetano Borriello <gaetano@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:26 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] UW CSE Colloquium by Landon Cox (Duke) on Thursday, 5/19 in EEB 105
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Landon Cox from Duke University will be visiting on Thursday. He’ll
be giving a talk in the regular colloquium slot on Thursday (details
below). Landon is a rising young star in the mobile systems community
and has collaborated with several people in the department. He is a
great speaker and has lots of great ideas. Please sign up to meet
with him and join us for lunch and/or dinner at:
https://reserve.cs.washington.edu/visitor/week.php?year=2011&month=05&day=19&room=1716
Title: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust Mobile Systems
Speaker: Landon Cox, Duke University
Abstract:
Mobile phones have become the eyes and ears of the Internet by placing
digital communication, computation, and sensing at the center of
nearly all human activity. The next generation of Internet services
promises to support applications like citizen journalism, mobile
social networking, and traffic monitoring by pairing the ubiquitous
sensing provided by mobile phones with the large-scale data collection
and distribution capacity of the cloud.
However, due to the need for user anonymity and privacy, establishing
bases for trust in these systems is difficult and remains a critical
obstacle to phone-based mobile sensing. This talk will discuss two
systems that address different aspects of this challenge. The first is
SMILE, an encounter-based messaging service for anonymous mobile
users. The second is YouProve, a partnership between a device’s
trustworthy hardware and system software that allows mobile clients to
control the fidelity of the data they share while allowing services to
verify the authenticity of the data they receive.
Bio:
Landon Cox is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Duke
University and a recipient of an NSF CAREER award and an IBM Faculty
Award. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2005.
Landon’s current research interests include operating systems,
distributed systems, and mobile computing.
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~lpcox/
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