Announcements

Center for Information Protection
UC Davis is planning to join the NSF I/UCRC Center for Information Protection. We are looking for companies to join our Industrial Advisory Board.
Find out more here!

Conferences and Workshops

• ISGIG 2009
• ACSAC 25
• PETRA 2010 (due 11/15)
• Oakland 2010 (due 11/18)

My Links

• My Home Page
• Books
• Classes
• Papers
• Reports and Notes
• Research
• Security in Programming
• Service
• Students
• Talks
• Miscellaneous
• My Family
• About Me (CV and such)

Other Links

• MyUCDavis
• Computer Security Lab
• Dept. of Computer Science
• College of Engineering
• University of California, Davis
• City of Davis
• County of Yolo
• State of California
• United States of America

This Quarter’s Classes

Office Hours for This Quarter

Contacting Me

Service

I try to be involved in the community. Here are some of the ways I do this.

Editorial Boards

• Journal of Computer Security; here’s the current flyer (in PDF)
• IEEE Security and Privacy magazine
  With Prof. Cynthia Irvine, I also co-edit the Education Department, a column that appears every issue. If you’re interested in contributing a column, here is information you will find useful.
• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems; here’s the current flyer (in PDF)
• The ISC International Journal of Information Security (note: I’m on the Advisory Board, not the Editorial Board); here’s the current flyer (in PDF)

Conferences

• Sep. 2008: 2008 New Security Paradigms Workshop; chair
• July 2008: Countering Insider Threats; co-organizer
• July 2008: PETRA 2008; invited speaker
• June 2008: WETICE 2008; workshop co-chair (Security Technologies)
• Conferences that have passed

Professional Organizations

• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
• IEEE Computer Society
• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers)
• Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education
• Usenix Association
• Voting System Performance Rating

Technical Advisory Boards

• Fortify Software
• Cranium Solutions

University Matters

• Institutional representative to the I3P (Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection)
  • Member, Executive Committee
  • Here is information on the I3P Fellowship Program for 2008–2009
• Outreach liasion for UC Davis for the Usenix Association
• Chair of the department’s Information Technology Committee
• Member of the Undergraduate Council
• Member of the Campus Committee for Information Technology
  • Chair, CCFIT Wireless Task Group

Civic Matters

• Co-author, paper on election forensics
• Member, Voting Systems Technology Assessment Advisory Board (VSTAAB), Office of the Secretary of State, California
• Member, Electronic Recording Delivery Act (ERDA) Advisory Committee, Office of the Attorney General, California
• Testimony before the California State Senate Elections and Reapportionment Committee on SB 1723 on May 7, 2004 [PDF]

Other Stuff

• Letter to the EAC (Aaron Burstein and Joe Hall wrote this; I was one of the signers. Normally, I don't sign things like this, but the misstatement of the results of the Top to Bottom Review seemed to me so egregious that I felt I had to)
• Letter in support of a proposed exemption to the DMCA (J. Alex Halderman wrote this; I was one of the signers)
• Shot by the Silver Bullet
• Letter to the Editor, Davis Enterprise, July 2, 2006

No group of professionals meets except to conspire against the public at large.
    — Mark Twain