{"id":59385,"date":"2014-09-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/west-point-computer-science-professor-to-speak-at-honors-colloquium-on-oct-7\/"},"modified":"2014-09-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T00:00:00","slug":"west-point-computer-science-professor-to-speak-at-honors-colloquium-on-oct-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/09\/west-point-computer-science-professor-to-speak-at-honors-colloquium-on-oct-7\/","title":{"rendered":"West Point computer science professor to speak at Honors Colloquium on Oct. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Sept. 26, 2014 \u2013 Col. Gregory Conti, associate professor of computer science and director of the Information Technology Operations Center at the United States Military Academy, West Point will speak at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Honors Colloquium, Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 7:30 p.m. The free, public lecture talk is titled, \u201cSlippery Slope of Doom: What Could Possibly Go Wrong with Our Instrumented World?\u201d will be held in Edwards Hall Auditorium, 64 Upper College Road. He will be speaking about security vulnerabilities and privacy issues in an increasingly instrumented world.<\/p>\n


\nThe presenting sponsor is Cox Business. Thanks to the generosity of Cox Business a free iPod mini will be given away at each event. You must attend the event to have a chance to win.

\nConti earned his bachelor\u2019s degree at the United States Military Academy, in 1989. He earned his master\u2019s degree in computer science from Johns Hopkins University and his doctorate at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research includes cyber security, security data visualization, online privacy, secure and usable interface design, cyber warfare and web-based information disclosure. <\/p>\n


\nHe is the author of Googling Security, Security Data Visualization, and has been featured in IEEE Security & Privacy magazine, Communications of the ACM, and IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications magazine. He has spoken at a wide range of academic and hacker conferences, including Black Hat, DEFCON, the Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSEC), and the NATO Conference on Cyber Conflict. <\/p>\n


\nConti’s talk will explore this emerging new threat environment, present possible solutions, and argue that we should always look suspiciously at new technologies by understanding their true capabilities for misuse and not just what marketing literature or a friendly corporate mascot proclaims.<\/p>\n


\nClick here for a full schedule of Cybersecurity and Privacy speakers.<\/a><\/p>\n


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KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Sept. 26, 2014 \u2013 Col. Gregory Conti, associate professor of computer science and director of the Information Technology Operations Center at the United States Military Academy, West Point will speak at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Honors Colloquium, Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 7:30 p.m. The free, public lecture talk is titled, \u201cSlippery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}