Manifest: Wednesday 12 December - heat death of Universe

Assignments Due

• Right now: Project Reports
• Today 5:00pm: Grad school information dinner (Olsson 009)
• Thursday, 7 December (5-8:00pm): Happ-E Hour (at O'Neill's)
• Monday, 11 December (5:00pm): Final Due
• Wednesday, 24 January 2001: Lorrie Cranor's talk on Online Privacy: What are People So Concerned About and What is Being Done About it?

Take-Home Final The take-home final is due Monday at 5:00pm.

Links

• PS 4 Answers (only an example of what I was looking for in question 1)
• Papers by J.C.R. Licklider

Some security-related jobs for graduating students:

• Nearby: Cigital, Portris, CyberCash
• Elsewhere: RSA Security, Zero-Knowledge Systems, InterTrust
• Yahoo!'s list of Security and Encryption companies

Some research projects for non-graduating students:

• Information Survivability (Jones, Knight, Sullivan)
• Intrusion Detection (Jones)
• LCLint - Annotation-Assisted Lightweight Static Checking (Evans)
• Naccio - Policy-Directed Code Safety (Evans)
• Programming the Swarm (Evans)

I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customer got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel a as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. Whats in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.

Alan Perlis (quoted in Abelson & Sussman)

University of Virginia Department of Computer Science CS 551: Security and Privacy on the Internet

David Evans evans@virginia.edu