Program Agenda

Day 1: July 18, 2012

08:00 - Breakfast (Provided) and Registration

08:30 - Welcome, Introductions, and Opening Remarks

Session 1

09:00 - Keynote Speaker: "Ignorance: How it Drives Science"

Speaker: Stuart Firestein (Columbia University)

10:15 - BREAK

10:15 - Paper: "Free vs. Transcribed Text for Keystroke-Dynamics Evaluations"

Authors: Kevin Killourhy (CMU) and Roy Maxion (CMU)

11:30 - Paper: "Experience with Heterogeneous Clock-Skew based Device Fingerprinting"

Authors: Swati Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), Alefiya Hussain (University of Southern California), Huzur Saran (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)

12:30 - Lunch (Provided)

Session II

13:30 - Researcher Panel: "Realizing Scientific Methods for Cyber Security"

Moderator: Thomas Carroll (PNNL)
Panelists: David Manz (PNNL), Thomas Edgar (PNNL), and Frank L. Greitzer (PNNL)

15:00 - BREAK

15:15 - Paper: "A Journey Towards Rigorous Cybersecurity Experiments: On the Application of Criminology Theory"

Authors: Michel Cukier (University of Maryland), David Maimon (University of Maryland), Robin Berthier (University of Illinois)

16:15 - Discussion: Challenges, Solutions, and Mitigations to Failures

Leader: Matt Bishop (UC Davis)

17:00 - Closing Comments and Adjourn

18:30 - Group Dinner

Day 2: July 19

08:00 - Breakfast (Provided) and Registration

08:45 - Recap from Wednesday

Session 3

09:00 - Keynote Speaker

Speaker: Roy Maxion (CMU)

10:15 - BREAK

10:30 - Paper: "P2P Hierarchical Botnet Traffic Detection Using Hidden Markov Models"

Authors: Chen Lu (Clemson University), Richard Brooks (Clemson University)

11:30 - Paper: "Self-Identified Experts Lost on the Interwebs: The importance of treating all results as learning experiences"

Authors: Timothy Kelley (Indiana University), Suzanne Lien (Santa Clara University), L. Jean Camp (Indiana University), Douglas Stebila (Queensland University)

12:30 - Lunch

Session 4

13:30 - Government Panel: "The Role of Risk and Failure in Research"

Moderator: Navid Jam (Sandia National Lab)
Panelists: Steve King (DoD), Brad Martin (ODNI), Carl Landwehr (George Washington University), and Cynthia Dion-Schwartz (NSF)

15:00 - BREAK

15:15 - Paper: "Studying Access Control Usability in the Lab: Lessons Learned from Three Studies"

Authors: Kami Vaniea (CMU), Lujo Bauer (CMU), Lorrie Faith Cranor (CMU), and Michael K. Reiter (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

16:15 - Discussion: Experiment, Hypotheses, and Methods You'd Like to See: Content for Next Year's Workshop

Discussion Lead: Greg Shannon (CMU-CERT)

17:00 - Adjourn

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