Recent News

	(08/19/08) Prof. Tanzeem Choudhury has been named a 2008 Young Innovator Under 35 by Technology Review magazine. She is recognized for her research in developing computational techniques for understanding human activities and interactions.
	(08/15/08) Prof. Hany Farid, Associate Chair of the department, is profiled on PBS's NOVA scienceNOW on digital image forgery. The program's website includes the broadcast segment, a profile on Prof. Farid, his answers to viewers's questions as well as an image forgery quiz.
	(08/11/08) Starting this month, Prof. Peter Winkler will be featuring his puzzles in Puzzled, the new puzzle column in the Communications of the ACM. Each column will present two puzzles with known solutions and one open problem. The inaugural column in the current issue focuses on Delightful Graph Theory.

Recent Technical Reports

• August 2008: Attribute-Based, Usefully Secure Email
• August 2008: TwoKind Authentication: Protecting Private Information in Untrustworthy Environments (Extended Version)
•    August 2008: Pas de Deux avec les Microrobots (Video)
• August 2008: Planar Microassembly by Parallel Actuation of MEMS Microrobots (Microassembly Video)
• July 2008: Lighting and Optical Tools for Image Forensics

Featured Research

Trusted Hardware

Prof. Sean Smith

A trusted third party (TTP) can make it easier to solve multi-party security problems. However, using a TTP in a design has been akin to invoking magic or fairies: tools not possible in the real world.

However, in the last decade, techniques have emerged that can provide foundations for TTPs based in hardware. In our lab, we are exploring ways of building effective trustworthy platforms founded on these techniques and using these platforms for hardware-based TTPs in real-world applications.

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