The award is to support the series of workshops on security in emerging areas that are affiliated with the 2011 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), and will be held on October 17-21st, 2011 in Chicago, IL.
The annual ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference is a leading international forum for information security researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools and experiences. Since year 2001, CCS started accommodating series of workshops to explore security issues in a variety of emerging areas. CCS workshops quickly become active forums for researchers to form focus groups, discuss and collaborate on emerging and critical security problems, and disseminate fresh, revolutionary (and sometimes even controversial) ideas. These workshops also serve as natural venues to bring together researchers from multiple disciplines to address security issues in specific domains, such as smartphone technology, cloud computing and national critical infrastructures.
that are affiliated with the 2011 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), and will be held on October 17 to 21, 2011 in Chicago, IL. The workshops were attended by hundreds of participants that included, information security researchers, practitioners, developers, users and students from all over the world. They successfully explored cutting-edge ideas and results, and exchanged techniques, tools and experiences. About 30 people benefitted from the support received for this project. These mainly included students who attended these workshops. A few of them included keynote speakers, authors and other attendees. Among the students that received support, at least eight of them were women, who are under-represented in computer science. All the above workshops were peer-reviewed, open to public research community submissions, and especially encouraged novel paradigms and controversial ideas. They acted as fertile grounds for creative debate and interaction amongst participants in security issues in a variety of critical and emerging applications and computing environments that are likely to deeply influence the future of computation and communications. Besides research papers, special research panels also took place in some of the workshops. These panels identified key challenges in their focus areas. Several students (whose travel was supported by this project) attended these workshops, and some of them presented their papers and were able to interact with other participants. A website for the workshops was set up. The workshop website provided details on the program such as paper titles, panels and keynote talks. These were widely publicized in user groups, mailing lists, and in university campuses.
