This proposal requests funding to assist approximately 6 US-based graduate students and junior faculty to attend the 19th annual New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW) to be held in Concord, MA, in September 2010. This is a unique meeting that combines scientific talks interleaved with vivid discussions, whose goal is to explore paradigm shifts that disrupt the status quo in security research.
NPSW is thought provoking, research stimulating, and is a highly valuable and unique experience to it participants. The support requested in this proposal will enable the participation of students and junior faculty who would otherwise be unable to attend NPSW.
This small travel grant allowed one Ph.D. student, one postdoc and one junior faculty to attend the New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), held in Concord, MA, in September 2010. The New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW) is an annual, small invitation-only workshop for researchers in information security and related disciplines. NSPW's focus is on work that challenges the dominant approaches and perspectives in computer security. In the past, such challenges have taken the form of critiques of existing practice as well as novel, sometimes controversial, and often immature approaches to defending computer systems. By providing a forum for important security research that isn't suitable for mainstream security venues, NSPW aims to foster paradigm shifts in information security. In order to preserve the small, focused nature of the workshop, participation is limited to authors of accepted papers and conference organizers. As a computer security venue, NSPW is unique in format and highly interactive in nature. Each paper is typically the focus of 45 to 60 minutes of presentation and discussion. Authors are encouraged to present ideas that might be considered risky in some other forum, and all participants are charged with providing feedback in a constructive manner. The resulting intensive brainstorming has proven to be an excellent medium for furthering the development of these ideas. The final proceedings are published after the workshop, giving authors an opportunity to incorporate feedback from the workshop.
