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05/07/2008
Two upcoming talks on Tuesday, May 13, 2008:

(1) New Techniques for Data Protection and Privacy
Speaker: Juan Garay, Bell Laboratories
Location: 11:00 am in ET 331

(2) Information Systems Security Engineering at NSA
Speaker: Ken Shotting
Location: 6:30 pm in CS 432

04/18/2008
Horav Shacham of UCSD to give two talks on Tuesday, April 29, 2008:

(1) Outsourced storage and compact proofs of retrievability
Location: 2pm at MSTB 254 (Mathematics Department's Cryptography Seminar)

(2) Voting maching security: Some results from the California Top-to-Bottom Review
Location: 4pm at BH 6011

04/17/2008
UCI (and SCONCE) is among the first universities in the nation to be designated, by the National Security Agency (NSA), as a "National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research" (CAE-Research) for academic years 2008-2013.

03/31/2008
SCONCE and the Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems are awarded a $200,000 unrestricted gift from Experian. This gift will be used to establish a research program in cyber-fraud detection and prevention.

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02/16/2008
Stanislaw Jarecki, has been awarded a highly-selective $450,000 NSF CAREER research grant on the topic of Secure Multi-Party Protocols. The goal of this research is to design cryptographic algorithms for a variety of secure multi-party tasks, including private authentication schemes, aggregate signatures, group key agreement schemes, and threshold and proactive crypto-systems.

02/08/2008
Gene Tsudik to deliver keynote talk titled: "Confronting a Mobile Adversary in Unattended Sensor Networks" at the 2008 ACM Symposium on Information, Computer & Communication Security (ASIACCS '08). More info at: http://www.rcis.aist.go.jp/asiaccs08/

02/07/2008
Athina Markopoulou, has been awarded a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. The five-year, $450,000 grant will further her research in Network Coding for the Internet which has numerous applications, including network security and multimedia delivery.

01/18/2008
The SCONCE web site is working now.

01/01/2008
Professor Kobsa receives Google Research Award: Professor Alfred Kobsa received a 2007 Google Research Award in the amount of $50,000, to support his research on compliance with disparate privacy laws and user privacy preferences.