Workshops

In conjunction with ISI 2012, several workshops and tutorials will be held on June 11, 2012.

Four have been confirmed to date. These can be added to your registration later if you have already registered. All tutorial and workshop sessions take place on Monday, June 11:

• Workshop I: Developing Technologies and Tools for Border Security Applications (Workshop; whole day. Click here to see the Agenda.)
• Social Computing (Workshop; half-day: PM)
• Tutorial I: Machine Learning in Support of Intelligence and Security Applications (Tutorial; half-day: AM).
• Tutorial II: Standing up an Insider Threat Program (Tutorial; half-day: PM).

 

Developing Technologies and Tools for Border Security Applications

Keynote Speaker (confirmed): Mark Borkowski, Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Technology Innovation and Acquisition (OTIA), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This workshop showcases the innovative work being done by BORDERS in the area of border security technologies. Four workshops will be given on advancements in biometrics; remote sensing of people and vehicles using high temporal resolution; better metrics for border security; and the AVATAR system for credibility assessment and anomaly detection.

The National Center for Border Security and Immigration, (BORDERS), is a DHS Center of Excellence, funded by the Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate. As a consortium of 15 premier institutions, BORDERS is dedicated to the development and transition of innovative technologies, proficient processes, and effective policies that will help protect our Nation’s borders, foster international trade, and enhance our understanding of immigration determinants and dynamics.

BORDERS is a "One stop" source for capabilities across the border security technology and immigration spectrum, including:
- Detection and screening
- Surveillance and monitoring
- Identification and assessment
- Communications and information management
- Immigration Enforcement and Policy
- Population Dynamics

Workshop Chairs: Dr. Jay Nunamaker, BORDERS Director and Principle Investigator; Regents’ and Soldwedel Professor of MIS, CS and Communication at the University of Arizona, and Dr. Elyse Golob, BORDERS Executive Director at the University of Arizona

Agenda: A printable preliminary workshop agenda with bios of the keynote speaker and workshop leaders is available in pdf: click here for the agenda.

 

Social Computing

The 2012 International Workshop on Social Computing (SOCO 2012) will be held on June 11, 2012, in Washington, DC, as part of the pre-conference workshop program at the IEEE ISI 2012 conference. Social computing can be broadly defined as computational facilitation of social studies and human social dynamics as well as the design and use of information and communication technologies that consider social context. The SOCO workshop series has been an affiliated event with the IEEE ISI conference from 2008. SOCO 2012 intends to bring together social computing researchers to (a) report and review the current state of the art of social computing research and its applications (including ISI applications); and (b) identify key technical challenges facing social computing studies. SOCO 2012 will also feature a special session on conversational text analysis.

Workshop Chairs: SOCO 2012 will be chaired by Daniel Zeng (University of Arizona and Chinese Academy of Sciences), Kathleen Carley (Carnegie Mellon University), Fei-Yue Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences), and Anne Kao (Boeing).

 

Machine Learning in Support of Intelligence and Security Applications

More information will be posted shortly.

Instructors: Artur Dubrawski and Jeff Schneider.

 

Standing up an Insider Threat Program

This half-day tutorial will give an overview of the steps required to stand up an operational insider threat program within an enterprise. This will include a discussion of the definition of the insider threat, the organizational and technical components of a working program, and the policies that need to exist to support the program. At the end of the tutorial, a participant will understand what role an insider threat program plays in an enterprise and understand the various constituent parts of a working program. The tutorial will be led by instructors from the Carnegie Mellon CERT and MITRE Corporation.

Instructors:

• Robin Ruefle is a senior member of the technical staff of the CERT Program at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Her focus is on the development of management, procedural, and technical guidelines and practices for the establishment, maturation, operation, and evaluation of Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) and incident management capabilities worldwide.
• Randall Trzeciak is currently a senior member of the technical staff at CERT. He is the technical team lead of the Insider Threat Research team; a team focusing on insider threat research; threat analysis and modeling; assessments; and training.
• Marc Brooks is the focal point for the Insider Threat capability within the Cyber Security Division of the MITRE Corporation. He is responsible for helping coordinate division support to various Insider Threat activities, as well as being actively involved in research activities on the topic.
• Mark Guido's time with MITRE has been spent helping a government sponsor establish a now mature Insider Threat program. As that sponsor grew in program maturity, Mr. Guido then spent 4 years supporting the sponsor operationally, assisting in incidents and investigations, as well as developing new data sources and building new analytical processes.
• Shane Shroeder is a senior information security engineer at MITRE. He is the alternate focal point for the Insider Threat capability within the Cyber Security Division of the MITRE Corporation. Mr. Shroeder has spent the last 7 years supporting the operations of multiple government Insider Threat programs.