Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 06:49:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Seymour E. Goodman" <goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PCD Discussion] FW: Grand Research Conference - Call for Papers
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A reminder re this event. I believe the deadline is being extended or
fudged to allow more people to apply.
Sy Goodman
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Visionaries Needed
CRA Conference on "Grand Research Challenges in Information Security &
Assurance"
Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia
November 16-19, 2003
Computing and IT technologies have become pervasive. This same
infrastructure is growing more complex as the underlying computational
and communication resources grow in speed and capacity. Every vision of
future technology includes predictions of ubiquitous computing and
networking, including embedded, portable, and distributed systems in
every aspect of our infrastructure. Computing will continue to change
the way we do business, interact with government, entertain ourselves,
communicate, keep records, control our infrastructures and services,
execute law enforcement and national defense, and conduct research and
education.
Coupled with these changes, we face threats of massive disruption and
denial, loss of privacy, alteration of critical information, and new
forms of undesirable IT-based activity. Threats from criminals,
anarchists and extremists, random hackers, and cyberterrorists (among
others) continue to grow even as we put more reliance on our computing
infrastructure. Yet most of the money, attention, and energy in
information security and information assurance has been focused on
incremental patches and updates to existing systems rather than on
seeking fundamental advances.
In 2002, the Computing Research Association sponsored its first "Grand
Research Challenges in Computer Science and Engineering." This was the
first in a series of highly non-traditional conferences where the goal
is to define important questions rather than expose current research.
Grand Challenges meetings seek "out-of-the-box" thinking to expose some
of the exciting, deep challenges yet to be met in computing research.
Because of the clear importance and pressing needs in information
security and assurance, the Computing Research Association's second
"Grand Research Challenges Conference" will be devoted to defining
technical and social challenges in information security and assurance.
We are seeking scientists, educators, business people, futurists, and
others who have some vision and understanding of the big challenges
(and accompanying advances) that should shape the research agenda in
this field over the next few decades. These meetings are not structured
as traditional conferences with scheduled presentations, but rather as
highly participatory meetings exposing important themes and ideas. As
such, this is not a conference for security specialists alone: We seek
to convene a diverse group from a variety of fields and at all career
rastages-we seek insight and vision wherever it may reside.
Attendance is limited to 50 people and is by invitation only. If you
are interested in attending, please submit a two-page (or less)
statement of two or three examples of a "grand research challenge"
problem in the IS/IA area to <grcpapers@xxxxxxx> by September 17, 2003.
The organizing committee will invite prospective attendees based on
these submissions. Note that individuals invited must commit to
attending for the entire three-day conference (beginning Sunday at 6
pm, ending after lunch on Wednesday.)
Please submit your paper as an attachment in plain text (no PDF or Word
documents!) Include a brief biographical statement sketching your
background at the end (maximum one page).
At the top of the first page, please provide the following information:
Name
Affiliation
Street Address
Room No.
City, State, Zip Code
E-mail
Telephone No.
The conference will be held in the executive retreat environment of
Airlie House in Warrenton, Virginia (30 miles from Washington-Dulles
airport). In addition to the formal sessions, two afternoons will be
set aside for free time so that participants may continue discussion in
small, informal groups.
CRA has applied to the National Science Foundation for travel and
lodging support to cover expenses of some participants, where
necessary. When you submit your paper, please indicate whether you need
to be considered for travel and/or lodging support. We have explicitly
budgeted for some participants from outside the United States, and we
encourage submissions from around the world.
More information on the CRA Grand Challenges Conferences may be found
on the WWW at <http://www.cra.org/grand.challenges/>
Organizing Committee:
Eugene H. Spafford, Purdue University and Computing Research Association
(Organizing Committee Chair)
Richard A. DeMillo, Georgia Institute of Technology
(Organizing Committee Co-Chair)
David Aucsmith, Microsoft Corporation
Andrew Bernat, Computing Research Association
Steve Crocker, Shinkuro, Inc.
David Farber, Carnegie Mellon University
Virgil Gligor, University of Maryland
Sy Goodman, Georgia Institute of Technology
Anita Jones, University of Virginia
Susan Landau, Sun Laboratories
Peter Neumann, SRI
David Patterson, University of California, Berkeley
Fred Schneider, Cornell University
Douglas Tygar, University of California, Berkeley
William Wulf, National Academy of Engineering and University of Virginia
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Andrew Bernat
Executive Director
Computing Research Association
1100 17th St., NW, Suite 507
Washington, D.C. 20036-4632
202.234.2111
202.667.1066 fax
http://www.cra.org
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