News About COS

2008

• COS Faculty Lorrie Cranor is featured in an article on ReadWriteWeb entitled, "How Safe Is That Web App? Researchers Want Online Privacy Policies Regulated" by Sarah Perez, October 10, 2008.


• COS Faculty Lorrie Cranor is featured in an article on MediaPost Publications entitled, " Online Execs Object To Privacy Statement Report" by Wendy Davis, October 9, 2008.


• COS Faculty Lorrie Cranor is featured in an article on PcPro entitled, " Reading privacy policies "would take 20 hours a month" " by Barry Collins, October 9, 2008.


• COS Faculty Lorrie Cranor is featured in an article on Ars Technica entitled, "Study: Reading online privacy policies could cost $365 billion a year" " by Nate Anderson, October 8, 2008.


• COS Faculty Lorrie Cranor is featured in an article on Dark Reading entitled, " Users, Enterprises Pay for Poor Privacy Policies, Study Says Research paper seeks to quantify loss of time spent reading confusing, overwritten privacy policies" " by Tim Wilson, October 7, 2008.


• COS Faculty Lorrie Cranor is featured in an article on Out-Law News entitled, "Average privacy policy takes 10 minutes to read, research finds" ", October 6, 2008.


• COS Faculty Lorrie Cranor is featured in an article on Pittsburgh Tribune-Review entitled, "Allegedly illegal Democratic e-mails 'waste' of taxes" ", by Brad Bumsted and Debra Erdley, August 2, 2008.


• COS Faculty Norman Sadeh, Lorrie Cranor and HCII Faculty Jason Hong co-founded a start-up company. Their company, Wombat Security Technologies, offers a suite of anti-phishing solutions.


• Lorrie Cranor was elected to the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.


• COS Faculty Lorrie Cranor and COS PhD student Ponnurangam Kumaraguru gave presentations at the Anti-Phishing Working Group eCrime Researchers Summit in October 2008.


• Marcelo Cataldo, Jim Herbsleb and Kathleen M. Carley, 2008, received an ACM Distinguished Paper Award for: Cataldo, M., Herbsleb J.D., & Carley, K.M. (2008). "Socio-Technical Congruence: A Framework for Assessing the Impact of Technical and Work Dependencies on Software Development Productivity," In Proceedings, Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement Conference, Oct. 9-10, Kaiserslautern, Germany.


• Serge Egelman, Lorrie Cranor, and Jason Hong, 2008, received an Honorable Mention, CHI Best Paper: S. Egelman, L. Cranor, and J. Hong. (2008). "You've Been Warned: An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of Web Browser Phishing Warnings," CHI 2008.


• COS Faculty Lorrie Cranor is featured in an article on The Guardian entitled, "Do you agree not to read our privacy policy?" ", by Wendy M. Grossman, January 10, 2008.

2007

• Il-Chul Moon, 2007, received a student scholarship from the Command and Control group for presentation at the 12th ICCRTS (International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium) to present his work on destabilization of adaptive networks.


• Jana Diesner and Kathleen M. Carley, 2007, "Conditional Random Fields for Entity Extraction and Ontological Text Coding," Proc of North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science (NAACSOS) 2007 Conference, Atlanta, GA. Best Student Paper Award. [abstract]
• Kathleen M. Carley,2007, "Dynamic Network Analysis Applications for HPC," DOD High Performance Computing Modernization Program's (HPCMP) User's Group Conference (UGC), Pittsburgh, PA, Keynote.


• Kathleen M. Carley,2007, "Network Dynamics: The Challenge of Enron and al Qaeda," UK Social Network Conference, University of London, London UK, Keynote.


• Kathleen M. Carley,2007, "The promise and challenge of linking social and spatial networks," Frontiers in Transportations Social Interaction, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Keynote.


• Rahul Tongia, 2007, IEEE's GIIS2007 Conference in Marrakesh (Global Information Infrastructure Symposium), Keynote Speaker


• Lorrie Cranor, Norman Sadeh, 2007, IBM Privacy Research Institute, IBM Privacy Faculty Award.

2006

• Marcelo Cataldo, Patrick Wagstrom, James Herbsleb, and Kathleen M. Carley, 2006, "Identification of Coordination Requirements: Implications for the design of collaboration and awareness tools", Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Banff, Alberta, Canada, Best Papers of CSCW 2006, 353 - 362. [pdf]


• James D. Herbsleb, Audrus Mockus, Jeffrey A. Roberts, 2006, "Collaboration in Software Engineering Projects: A Theory of Coordination", International Conference on Information Systems, Milwaukee, WI, Paper received Best in Track Award. [pdf]


• Lorrie Cranor, 2006, TOR Graphical User INterface Design Competition, Phase 1 Overall Winner.

2004

• Lorrie Cranor, 2004, IBM Best Academic Privacy Faculty Award.


• Lorrie Cranor, 2004, IBM Faculty Award.

2003

• Lorrie Cranor, 2003, Technology Review 100 (TR 100) Top Young Innovator 35 and Younger.


• Simon Byers, Lorrie Faith Cranor, and David Kormann, 2003, "Automated Analysis of P3P-Enabled Web Sites", Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC2003). Pittsburgh, PA, October 1-3, 2003, Received Best Paper Award. [paper]

2002

• Matthew J. Dombroski and Kathleen M. Carley, 2002, "NETEST: Estimating a Terrorist Network's Structure," Graduate Student Best Paper Award, CASOS 2002 Conference, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 8, pp. 235-241. Pittsburgh, PA. [pdf]


• Kathleen M. Carley, 2002, "Simulating Society: The Tension Between Transparency and Veridicality," Keynote, Agents 2002, Chicago, IL, Keynote.


• Lorrie Cranor, 2002 AT&T Standards Recognition Award.

2001

• Zhiang Lin and Kathleen M. Carley, 2001, "Organizational Design and Adaptation in Response to Crises: Theory and Practice," In Dennis H. Nagao (Ed.) AoM Best Papers Proceedings. Sixty-First Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Washington, D.C., USA, August 3-8, 2001, “How Governments Matter, Academy of Management Proceedings 2001, Academy of Management, Washington D.C. OMT: B1-B6. [pdf]


• Kathleen M. Carley, 2001, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sociology abd Computers Section of the ASA.


• Marc Waldman, Aviel D. Rubin, and Lorrie Faith Cranor, 2001, Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award for Best Circumvention of Censorship, for Publius project.

2000

• Marc Waldman, Aviel D. Rubin, and Lorrie Faith Cranor, 2000, "Publius: A Robust, Tamper-Evident, Censorship-Resistant, Web Publishing System", Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2000, Received Best Paper Award. [paper]