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ISTeC Distinguished Lecture in conjunction with the Computer Science Department and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Seminar Series Networks of ‘Things’ Speaker: Jeffrey M. Voas, Computer Scientist, Secure Systems and Applications Group, NIST Contact: Sudipto Ghosh (ghosh@colostate.edu) Abstract:System primitives allow formalisms, reasoning,
simulations, and reliability and security risk-tradeoffs to be
formulated and argued. In this talk, five core primitives
belonging to most distributed systems are presented. These
primitives apply well to systems with large amounts of data,
scalability concerns, heterogeneity concerns, temporal concerns,
and elements of unknown pedigree with possible nefarious intent.
These primitives are the basic building blocks for a Network of
‘Things’ (NoT), including the Internet of Things (IoT). This
talk offers an underlying and foundational understanding of IoT
based on the realization that IoT involves sensing, computing,
communication, and actuation. The material presented here is
generic to all distributed systems that employ IoT technologies
(i.e., ‘things’ and networks). The expected audience is
computer scientists, IT managers, networking specialists, and
networking and cloud computing software engineers. To our
knowledge, the ideas presented here and the manner in which IoT
is presented is unique.
Bio:Jeffrey Voas is an innovator. He is currently a computer scientist at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Before joining NIST, Voas was an entrepreneur and co-founded Cigital that is now part of Synopsys (Nasdaq: SNPS). He has served as the IEEE Reliability Society President (2003-2005, 2009-2010, 2017-2018), and served as an IEEE Director (2011-2012). Voas co-authored two John Wiley books (Software Assessment: Reliability, Safety, and Testability [1995] and Software Fault Injection: Inoculating Software Against Errors [1998]. Voas received his undergraduate degree in computer engineering from Tulane University (1985), and received his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the College of William and Mary (1986, 1990 respectively). Voas is a Fellow of the IEEE, member of Eta Kappa Nu, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and member of the Washington
Academy of Sciences (WAS). |