The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium is held each February in San Diego, CA. It is a three day conference that brings together innovative and forward thinking members of the Internet community who design, develop, exploit, and deploy the technologies that define network and distributed system security.
This grant provides funding to assist US-based graduate and undergraduate students to attend this event. Participation in symposia like the NDSS are a critical part of these students' educational experiences by providing them the opportunity to interact with senior researchers and to be exposed to leading-edge work in the field. The support provided by this grant enable the participation of students who would otherwise be unable to attend the NDSS.
This NSF award provided travel support for students to attend the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium held in San Diego, CA on February 23-26, 2014. NDSS is an annual, three-day conference that brings together innovative and forward-thinking members of the Internet community who design, develop, exploit, and deploy the technologies that define network and distributed system security. NDSS is widely recognized as one of the top conferences for research in computers security. This award allowed six US-based students, who otherwise would not have been able to do so, to attend the conference. Participation in symposia like the NDSS is a critical part of these students’ educational experiences by providing them the opportunity to interact with senior researchers and to be exposed to leading-edge work in the field. Students were invited to apply for the travel funds through an announcement on the Internet Society’s website as well as announcements on email lists of educators and researchers in the cyber security field. Recipients of the awards were chosen by a committee of conference organizers, using decision criteria that included showing evidence of serious interest in the field, as demonstrated by coursework and project experience, and demonstrating expected benefit from participating in the symposium.
