From: Jeffrey Yost <[email protected]>
Dear Colleagues,
The Charles Babbage Institute will be hosting a workshop on Computer Security
History on July 11-12, 2014. The Call for Papers is contained below.
Proposals must be received by Sept. 13, 2013, travel assistance will be
provided for authors of accepted proposals. Please feel free to forward to
individuals/groups/lists who may be interested.
Best,
Jeff
Computer Security History Workshop-Call For Papers
Charles Babbage Institute
SRI International scientist and noted computer security pioneer Peter Neumann
was quoted last year in the New York Time’s article “Killing the Computer to
Save It,” that he has “…been tilting at the same windmills for 40 years
and…[he]…get[s] the impression that most of the folks who are responsible don’t
want to hear about complexity. They are interested in quick and dirty
solutions.” Neumann is now heading a major DARPA effort to select the very
best computer security ideas from the past to better address today’s
challenges. Many computer security pioneers emphasize that most of the
potentially useful (and often ignored) solutions to the nation and world’s many
computer security challenges have fruitful seeds in the more distant past (and
that today’s problems often resulted from yesterday’s choices in structuring
computing and networking).
The Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) is currently engaged in a three year
National Science Foundation-sponsored project “Building an Infrastructure for
Computer Security History.” The project consists of conducting oral histories,
creating a computer security wiki, and collecting and making available archival
resources to document computer security’s past. In conjunction with this
project, CBI is hosting a workshop on computer security history on July 11 and
12, 2014 and is seeking paper proposals for the event. Preliminary plans have
been laid to publish many of the revised papers from the workshop in a 2015
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing special issue on computer security.
All papers must be historical studies—ranging from the technical, scientific,
political, legal, social, and cultural history of computer security
(contemporary analyses of current issues will not be considered). Potential
topics include, but are not limited to the history of pioneering work funded by
the military; Bell-Lapadula, Biba, Clark-Wilson and other computer security
models; TCSEC/The Orange Book/Rainbow Series; public key encryption/PKI;
computer crime/criminal justice; hacking and hackers; intrusion detection;
computer security companies; and the computer security industry. Preference
will be given for papers on U.S. topics between the mid-1960s and the advent of
the Web in the early 1990s.
Requirements and logistics
To be considered for workshop participation, authors should send a 500-750 word
abstract detailing their proposed paper, which includes discussion of the key
sources for the study. Authors must also submit a 2-page curriculum vitae.
Applications should be sent to [email protected] as PDF documents no later than
Friday September 13, 2013. For accepted proposals, full papers (6000 to 8000
words including footnotes) must be submitted for pre-circulation to the
workshop’s participants by June 15, 2014. Travel assistance will be provided
to all accepted applicants, as well as lunches and an event dinner on July 11,
2014.
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Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Charles Babbage Institute
Faculty, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
222 21st Avenue South
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612 624 5050 Phone
612 625 8054 Fax
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