The Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) program is for research and teaching faculty in the first two years of their appointments. In 2014-15, the first year of the program, there were 76 awards under this program.Two of the projects that were funded last year are highlighted below. The interaction between computer processors and software is governed by an Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). The ISA is large and complex, too large for a person to understand and reason about all the interactions between different parts completely. [My] research is about detecting security vulnerabilities that exist in the ISA. The hypothesis of this research is that it […]

The next WATCH talk, called The CHERI Processor: Revisiting the Hardware-Software Interface for Security is Monday July 6, 2015 from Noon-1pm EST. The presenter is Dr Robert N.M. Watson. Robert is a University Lecturer in Systems, Security, and Architecture at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. He has a strong interests in open-source software, is on the board of directors of the FreeBSD Foundation, and was founder of the FreeBSD Project. He earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge. Abstract   The last five years, supported by DARPA’s CRASH and MRC research programmes, SRI International and the University of Cambridge have been engaged in a project to revisit the fundamentals […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has a new public access plan called Today’s Data, Tomorrow’s Discoveries that was released in March to increase access to the results of research funded by NSF. Public access is intended to accelerate the dissemination of fundamental research results that will advance the frontiers of knowledge and help ensure the nation’s future prosperity. NSF’s plan is grounded in the realization that clear and open communication of research results is central to fulfilling NSF’s primary mission of promoting the progress of science. NSF will implement its public access requirements in stages. In the first implementation, the following products of NSF-funded research are in scope: Articles in peer-reviewed journals […]

The White House has kicked off the National Week of Making, which lasts from June 12 to June 18. The event includes announcements and progress updates on the President’s call to action to create a “Nation of Makers.”

  The following blog post is from the National Science Foundation Office of Legislative and Public Affairs on improving science communication.  A new interactive resource available through NSF’s website will help NSF-funded principal investigators and their institution public information officers understand better the process for creating communications tools, such as videos and feature stories, so that NSF more effectively communicates the science it funds. This user-friendly resource, which is essentially a decision tree that shows examples of all of NSF’s Office of Legislative and Public Affairs (OLPA) capabilities, is located with NSF’s communications resources along with a text-only version. (Click on “Science Communication Toolkit for Principal Investigators.”)  In addition to showcasing all […]

The next WATCH Talk, called Cybersecurity for the Internet of Everything (IoE), is Thursday, June 18, 12:00-1:00 PM EST. The presenter is Bret Hartman, the Vice President & Security Chief Technical Officer at Cisco Systems, Inc. Bret is responsible for defining the corporate security technology strategy for Cisco, as implemented by the Security Business Group. Bret has over thirty years of experience building information security infrastructures, including cloud, virtualization, SOA, Web Services, policy development and management, and security modeling and analysis. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering from MIT and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland. Abstract   The next wave of the Internet […]