纽约国际官方网站 网络与信息系统研究所

时间：2013年11月26日下午1:30

地点：理科二号楼2129会议室

主讲人：Keith Ross

Vice Dean of Business and Engineering, NYU Shanghai

Leonard J. Shustek Professor of Computer Science, NYU-Poly

Third-Party Privacy Attacks

Abstract

We consider how third parties ("hackers") can exploit applications and big data in the Internet to invade our privacy. We will survey some past and ongoing work on tracking the locations of Internet users, profiling children, and extracting profile information from photos.

Brief Bio

Keith Ross is the Vice Dean of Business and Engineering at NYU Shanghai and the Leonard J. Shustek Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU.

Professor Ross is an ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, recipient of the Infocom 2009 Best Paper Award, and recipient of 2008 and the 2011 Best Paper Awards for Multimedia Communications (awarded by IEEE Communications Society).

His recent privacy work has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, and Bloomberg Television. He recently received grants to study privacy from NSF and Google.

Professor Ross is co-author (with James F. Kurose) of the popular textbook, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, published by Addison-Wesley (first edition in 2000, sixth edition 2012). It is the most popular textbook on computer networking, and has been translated into fourteen languages.

http://cis.poly.edu/~ross/