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Monday, August 8, 2016
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11:00 AM
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12:00 PM
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Polling with REEF
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: Come explore REEF, the new classroom response system from iClicker. This new version of iClicker allows students to use a smartphone, tablet, laptop or iClicker remote to respond with during class. Response systems help create a more engaging classroom environment for your students, while enabling content reinforcement and thinking skills.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, topic: Faculty Development, audience: Faculty
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11:30 AM
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1:30 PM
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MASTER OF SCIENCE THESIS DEFENSE BY: Yeka Joseph Abueh
- Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
- Cost: Free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: TOPIC: AUTHENTICATION IN VEHICULAR AD HOC NETWORKS
LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A
ABSTRACT:
Driverless/driver-assisted vehicles are becoming mainstream in today's transportation systems. Companies like TESLA, Audi, and Google are among the leaders in this new era of the automotive industry. Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET), the wireless communication technology enabled driverless cars, features not only dynamic topology but also high mobility. The vehicle nodes move rapidly on streets and highways. Their movements also depend on but not limited to road traffic, speed limits, and behavior of nearby vehicles. With massive amount of messages exchanged among driverless cars that command the cars??? movements at high speeds and in close distances, any malicious alternation could lead to disastrous accidents. Message authentication to ensure data integrity is paramount to attack preparation.
This work examines the VANET unique characteristics, the security requirements, and the state of the art in authenticating VANET nodes (vehicular on-bard units and roadside devices). A threat model is devised to study the vulnerability of the current authentication schemes for VANET. The research leads to a novel message authentication scheme that protects cars from bogus messages and makes VANET resilience to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is evaluated with simulations. The work includes a simulation framework that integrates vehicle and data traffic models to validate future VANET authentication schemes.
NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend.
All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public.
Advisor: Dr. Hong Liu
Committee Members: Dr. Honggang Wang, Dr. Liudong Xing, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Dr. David Koop, Department of Computer & Information Science
*For further information, please contact Dr. Hong Liu at 508.999.8514, or via email at hliu@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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10:00 AM
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12:00 PM
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MASTER OF SCIENCE THESIS DEFENSE BY: Matthew A. Crossman
- Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
- Cost: Free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: TOPIC: TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION THROUGH NEAR-FIELD COMMUNICATION
LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A
ABSTRACT:
The advent of the Cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT) has given rise to large collection of user data. Without proper security precautions, the user data are left exposed both to lone hackers and nation states. Such breaches, where sensitive data were compromised, have shaken the users trust in cloud services. High profile cases include attacks on iCloud, LastPass, and even the Office of Personnel Management for the United States Government. The Cloud and the IoT require a way of assuring users of their data security. Authentication, the process of verifying users identities, is the first line of defense in cybersecurity.
This work examines current popular approaches in user authentication. Specifically, multi-factor methods are studied, where users present a combination of something they know, something they have, and something they are. A new approach to Two-Factor Authentication is proposed through the use of Near-Field Communication (NFC) enabled smartphones. The scheme offers operational convenience with strong authentication. The proposed method is qualitatively compared to existing methods, and a prototype application is demonstrated.
NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend.
All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public.
Advisor: Dr. Hong Liu
Committee Members: Dr. Liudong Xing, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and
Dr. Timothy Shea, Department of Computer & Information Science
*For further information, please contact Dr. Hong Liu at 508.999.8514, or via email at hliu@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Blended Learning: Finding the Mix
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: This fully online workshop provides an introduction to the best practices of blended teaching and learning. A mix of online collaboration and activities will prepare participants to design their own plan for blended instruction.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for online teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for the online environment.
Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop your own strategies for online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMassD.
The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the online course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to techniques that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and increase retention.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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