The early registration cutoff date for WiSec 2012 is just a few days away, March 16. Please forward this announcement to students and colleagues who may be interested in attending. Note that the conference program has been posted, including two exciting keynote talks; see below for details.
-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fifth ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks ACM WiSec '12 April 16-18, 2012 Tucson, Arizona, USA http://www.sigsac.org/wisec/WiSec2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - EARLY REGISTRATION OPEN*** The organizing committee of WiSec 2012 encourages all interested members of the community, whether academic, industry, government, etc., to attend and participate in conference activities. Highlights ---------------- Two exciting keynote talks - Dr. Edward Felten: Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, Founding director of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University Title: "Toward a Healthy Wireless Privacy Ecosystem affiliation: U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Princeton University" - Dr. Tadayoshi Kohno, Associate Professor at the University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Title: "Security for Cyber-physical Systems: Case Studies with Medical Devices, Robots, and Automobiles" Two panels (topics TBA) 17 Technical Papers presented in a single track Preliminary Program: http://www.sigsac.org/wisec/WiSec2012/program.php A demo/poster session (Call for posters/demos is still open) http://www.sigsac.org/wisec/WiSec2012/call-for-posters-demos.php Registration ---------------- http://www.sigsac.org/wisec/WiSec2012/registration.php Registration for WiSec 2012 is now open, and early registration discounts are available until March 16. Conference Venue ------------------------ http://www.sigsac.org/wisec/WiSec2012/local.php WiSec 2012 will be held April 16-18 in the Student Union Memorial Center at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, AZ. Hotel ------- http://www.sigsac.org/wisec/WiSec2012/hotel.php A block of hotel rooms is available at the Tucson Marriott University Park Hotel at the conference group rate of $133/night for stays between April 13-21. The cut-off date for reserving rooms at this negotiated group rate is March 18. This hotel is within walking distance of the conference venue. See you in Tucson! About the Conference --------------------------- As wireless and mobile networking becomes ubiquitous, security and privacy become increasingly critical. The focus of the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec) is on exploring vulnerabilities, threats, and attacks in wireless communications and the techniques needed to address them. Settings of interest include cellular, metropolitan, mesh, local-area, personal-area, home, vehicular, sensor, ad hoc, satellite, cognitive radio, RFID, and underwater networks as well as systems using non-RF wireless communication. Organizers - General Chairs: Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, USA) Loukas Lazos (University of Arizona, USA) - Program Co-chairs: Roberto Di Pietro (Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy) Wade Trappe (Rutgers University, USA) - Publicity Chair: Patrick Tague (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - Poster/Demo Chair: Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Purdue University, USA) - Steering Committee Gene Tsudik (University of California, Irvine, USA) (chair) Jean-Pierre Hubaux (EPFL, Switzerland) Claude Castelluccia (INRIA, France) Douglas Maughan (DHS/HSARPA, USA) Adrian Perrig (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Nitin Vaidya (University of Illinois, USA) Dirk Westhoff (NEC Europe Network Lab, Germany) Levente Buttyan (BME, Hungary) Virgil Gligor (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Peng Ning (North Carolina State University, USA) Radha Poovendran (University of Washington, USA) Cliff Wang (Army Research Office, USA) ----------------------------- The WiSec 2012 Team _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
