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HotSoS 2016 This year also marked Carnegie Mellon’s turn to host the HotSoS Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security. Sponsored by the National Security Agency’s Science of Security Lablet (SoS), the research event centered on the Science of Security, which aims to address the fundamental problems of security in a principled manner. The 2016 HotSoS event, held April 19 to 21 at the Carnegie Mellon University, brought together senior and junior researchers from diverse disciplines to promote advancement of work related to the science of security. The program featured refereed papers as well as invited talks from Lorrie Cranor (ISR and Federal Trade Commission), Greg Shannon (SEI and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy), Christos Faloutsos (CMU Computer Science Dept), and Matt Briggs (FireEye) The Science of Security (SoS) emphasizes the advancement of research methods as well as the development of new research results. This dual focus is intended to improve both the confidence gained from scientific results and also the capacity and efficiency through which increasingly technical problems are addressed. Pictured (Left to Right): Vishal Diwedi (ISR PhD student), Javier Cámara (ISR Systems Scientist), and Ashutosh Pandey (ISR PhD student) gathered with other HotSoS attendees for an evening reception at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
SPLASH 2015 The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) is the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. SPLASH 2015 was hosted in Pittsburgh. Chaired by ISR’s Jonathan Aldrich and with significant volunteer support from ISR faculty and staff, the event was tremendously successful, bringing over 500 scientists, educators, and practitioners to the steel city this past October.
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