July 2014 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Richiesta esperti italiani da Commissione europea / sud africa
by Margot Bezzi July 1, 2014

July 1, 2014

Ciao a tutti/e, per chi di voi fosse già familiare con il lavoro di esperti in Commissione europea, vi segnalo una richiesta proveniente dalla rappresentanza della Commissione in Sud Africa. Come APRE ci è stato chiesto di segnalare alcuni nomi. Fatemi sapere (rispondendo solo a me) se credete possiate essere interessati a qualcuna delle seguenti aree. Per quanto riguarda l'incarico specifico e la logistica, purtroppo dispongo solo delle info qui sotto.: "In particolare, la disturbo nella speranza che mi possa aiutare a rispondere alle richieste del Project Officer EU per l'Ambiente, l'Energia e S&T in Sudafrica che chiede di segnalare nominativi di esperti italiani nei seguenti campi, da suggerire come invitati a dei meetings in SA che verranno svolti dalla fine di agosto in poi: - Industry and SME participation in EU programmes - Intellectual property - Innovation policy advisory and support services - International innovation support and funding instruments - EU centres of excellence and centres of competences - Mainstreaming innovation" -- Margot Bezzi Via della Valle Pietro, 4 00193 Roma Italy +39 329 8210660

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First ACM Workshop on Information Sharing and Collaborative Security
by J.C. DE MARTIN July 1, 2014

July 1, 2014

First ACM Workshop on Information Sharing and Collaborative Security Sharing of security related information is believed to greatly enhance the ability of organizations to defend themselves against sophisticated attacks. If one organization detects a breach the automated sharing of observed security indicators (such as IP addresses, domain names etc.) provide valuable, actionable information to others. Through analyzing shared data it seems possible to get much better insights into emerging attacks. Sharing higher level intelligence about campaigns, threat actors and mitigations is also of great interest. Both in the US and the EU there are major efforts underway to strengthen information sharing. Yet there are a number of technical and policy challenges to realizing this vision. Which information exactly should be shared? How can privacy and confidentiality be protected? How can we create high-fidelity intelligence from shared data without getting overwhelmed by false positives? The first Workshop on Information Sharing and Collaborative Security (WISCS 2014) aims to bring together experts and practitioners from academia, industry and government to present innovative research, case studies, and legal and policy issues. The workshop solicits original research papers in these areas. Workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Collaborative intrusion detection * Case studies for information sharing * Domain name and IP address blacklisting * Collaborative approaches to spear-phishing and DDoS attacks * Data deidentification * Privacy and confidentiality * Cryptographic protocols for collaborative security * Scalability of security analysis on shared data * Ontologies and standards for sharing security data * Human factors in collaboration * Policy and legal issues * Surveillance issues * Trust models * Attacks on information sharing * Economics of security collaboration See: https://sites.google.com/site/wiscs2014/ for further details.

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Should Facebook Manipulate Users?
by Alessandro Mantelero July 1, 2014

July 1, 2014

"Research with human subjects is generally governed by strict ethical standards, including the informed consent of the people who are studied. Facebook’s generic click-through agreement, which almost no one reads and which doesn’t mention this kind of experimentation, was the only form of consent cited in the paper. " http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/opinion/jaron-lanier-on-lack-of-transpare… -- Avv. Alessandro Mantelero, PhD Aggregate Professor, Politecnico di Torino Director of Privacy and Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet and Society Visiting Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute Research Consultant, Sino-Italian Research Center for Internet Torts at Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology Programme Coordinator, Double Degree program in Management and IP Law, Politecnico di Torino–Tongji University of Shanghai http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino - Italy in libertate fortitudo

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Berkman Center Webcast live oggi ore 18.30 - MOOCs and the Science of Learning
by Giuseppe Futia July 1, 2014

July 1, 2014

MOOCs and the Science of Learning http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/07/reich <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/06/sigal> <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/06/sigal> *with Berkman Fellow, Justin Reich* Today, 6.30 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live Millions of learners on platforms like edX and Coursera are generating terabytes of data tracking their activity in real time. Online learning platforms capture extraordinarily detailed records of student behavior, and now the challenge for researchers is to explore how these new datasets can be used to advance the science of learning. This talk will examine current trends and future directions in research into online learning in large-scale settings. Co-sponsored by edX <https://www.edx.org/>. About Justin Justin Reich is an educational researcher interested in the future of learning in a networked world. He is the Richard L. Menschel HarvardX Research Fellow, based in the Office of the President and Provost at Harvard University, exploring the possibilities and limits of online learning through the HarvardX platform. He is also a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and a visiting lecturer in the Scheller Teacher Education Program at MIT. Justin is the co-founder of EdTechTeacher, a professional learning consultancy devoted to helping teachers leverage technology to create student-centered, inquiry-based learning environments. He earned his doctorate from Harvard University, where he led the Distributed Collaborative Learning Communities project, a Hewlett Foundation funded initiative to examine how social media are used in K-12 classrooms. He writes the EdTechResearcher blog for Education Week, and his writings have appeared in Educational Researcher, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. Justin started his career teaching wilderness medicine, and later taught high school world history and history electives, and coached wrestling and outdoor activities.

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