The TAC-SCM competition our e-Supply Chain Management Lab launched with SICS in 2002 will be running its 10th edition in Valencia, Spain
June 2012
Our Livehoods project continues to garner media attention
May 2012: – e.g., see Pittsburgh Post Gazette article , CMU press release, CMU homepage , WTAE interview , Wall Street Journal blog and media coverage abroad (e.g. Heise Online , Wired.it and Haaretz)
Can We Reconcile Privacy and Usability? , Computer Science Seminar Series, HKUST.
May 2012
“Mobile Privacy: Technology and Human Considerations”, Expert Address, Hong Kong University
May 2012
Our Livehoods project featured in Atlantic Cities
April 2012: See also MIT review article , Fast Company article or Wired’s blog
MIT CSAIL seminar
March 2012: User-Controllable Privacy: An Oxymoron? – Slides downloadable below
“Smartphone Security and Privacy: What Should We Teach our Users and How?”, FISSEA 2012, NIST
March 2012
The Verge: 'How a coke dealer busted by GPS tracking is changing privacy law'
February 21, 2012: Further speculation about the implications of the US Supreme Court’s ruling in US v Jones, including some comments I made on 3rd party doctrine here. See also Wall Street Journal article on FBI turns off thousands of GPS devices after Court ruling
US Supreme Court unanimously agrees with our view...
January 23, 2012 – US Supreme Court unanimously agrees with our view that placing a GPS device under someone’s vehicle constitutes a search & that doing so without a warrant violated the defendent’s privacy. At the same time, they do not address more fundamental issues relating to expectations of privacy – See Supreme Court’s Opinion here and CDT’s statement here.
Google Pittsburgh Seminar: ““From Today’s Android Permission System to Intelligent Security and Privacy Agents”.
December 2011: See also our USEC2012 article on A Conundrum of Permissions: Installing Applications on an Android Smartphone
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette publishes my op-ed on warrantless GPS tracking
November 2011: See also interview in CMU’s Piper
Joined CDT and EFF in amicus brief on warrantless GPS tracking filed with US Supreme Court
October – November 2011: . See also ComputerWorld article and CMU home page coverage
Panelist at Qualcomm’s Contextual Awareness Symposium, San Diego
September 2011
“Mobile Location Privacy: Why it is Important & Challenging”, Invited lecture, Beihang University, Beijing.
July 2011
Wombat Security Technology, selected as Finalist for Tech 50 Startup of the Year award
July 2011
Mobile Location Privacy: Forces at Play, Attitudes and Challenges, Expert Address, Hong Kong University
June 2011
Stepping down after three years as founding CEO of Wombat Security Technologies
May 2011
EDUCAUSE webinar: Smartphone Privacy and Security: What Should We Teach Users?
April 2011
Michael Benisch (COS PhD student) defends his dissertation
March 2011 – Michael Benisch (COS PhD student) defends his dissertation on Using Expressiveness to Improve the Efficiency of Social and Economic Mechanisms (Thesis Committee: Norman Sadeh, Tuomas Sandholm, Geoff Gordon, Craig Boutilier)
Norman asks:’ Can Social Networking and Privacy be Reconciled?', CyLab Seminar
March 2011