CS researchers received the Best Paper Award at the 11th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID). PhD student Ryan Riley, Prof. Xuxian Jiang, and Prof. Dongyan Xu received the RAID'08 best paper award for their work entitled "Guest-Transparent Prevention of Kernel Rootkits with VMM-based Memory Shadowing." RAID is the premier conference on research in intrusion detection and response systems.
The paper is about NICKLE, a system the authors have developed to prevent rootkits from "hijacking" computers' operating systems. A rootkit is a malicious program that seizes control of the very core of an operating system - the kernel - and further "installs" unauthorized software that will be difficult to find and remove. The rootkit allows other unauthorized access or behavior to occur - all hidden from the computer user and administrator. This is a tactic used in many cyber attacks, including botnets.
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Wojtek Szpankowski has been named the Saul Rosen Professor of Computer Science. This distinguished honor was approved by the Purdue University board of trustees on Friday, September 26. Szpankowski earns this recognition for his outstanding abilities as a researcher, teacher, and leader at Purdue.
Szpankowski joined the Department of Computer Science at Purdue in 1985. He holds a courtesy appointment in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue, and is a fellow of IEEE. He is also the Director of the Institute for Science of Information which he launched in 2008 along with his Purdue colleagues.
Szpankowski's research is in the areas of the analysis of algorithms, information theory, bioinformatics, analytic combinatorics, random structures, and stability problems of distributed systems.
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The Purdue Computer Science Department is ranked #19 on the U.S. News and World Report America's Best Graduate Schools of 2009. U.S. News determines America's Best Graduate Schools from data collected from over 12,000 graduate programs. They access schools in Business, Law, Medical, Engineering, Education, the Science, Library and Information Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities, Health, Public Affairs, and Fine Arts.
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CRI Seminar: Prof. Martin Gutknecht, IDR Explained, October 14, 2:00-3:00pm Prof. Marianne Winslett, Managing Compliance Data: Addressing the Insider Threat Exemplified by Enron, October 17, 10:30-11:30am Prestige Lecture on Science of Information: Prof. Tom Cover, The natural mathematics that arises in information theory and investment, October 20, 2:00-3:00pm
