Updates Archive

Spring 2018 Updates:

• • Organizing the inaugural speaker and discussion in the "Outside Perspectives" Honorarium Series at CERT: Elay Shech (May 24).

  • Publication: "The Protoscience of Cybersecurity," Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation (final online version; pdf download).

  • Manuscript under review: "A Refinement to the General Mechanistic Account."

  • Drafting three chapters for Using Science in Cybersecurity (with Leigh Metcalf), forthcoming from World Scientific Publishing.

  • Contributing to the launch (as Managing Editor) of ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice (download the call for papers, learn about the journal, or submit your manuscript).

  • Researching the science of cybersecurity at CERT.

  • Undergraduate course: Introduction to Logic (online) at the University of Pittsburgh.

• Teaching Philosophy of Cosmology: The Multiverse for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Pittsburgh.

Fall 2017 Updates:

• • Publication: "The Protoscience of Cybersecurity," Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation ("Online First" version here).

  • Manuscript under review: "A Refinement to the General Mechanistic Account."

  • Organizing the next visitor for the "Science of Cybersecurity" set of lectures at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Computing and Information: Antonio Roque (October 6).

  • Drafting three chapters for Using Science in Cybersecurity (with Leigh Metcalf), forthcoming from No Starch Press.

  • Contributing to the launch (as Senior Associate Editor) of ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice.

  • Researching the science of cybersecurity at CERT.

  • Undergraduate course: Introduction to Logic (online) at the University of Pittsburgh.

Spring 2017 Updates:

• • Publication: "Thinking About Intrusion Kill Chains as Mechanisms" (with Jonathan Spring), Journal of Cybersecurity ("Advance Articles" version here).

  • Drafting three chapters for Using Science in Cybersecurity (with Leigh Metcalf), forthcoming from No Starch Press.

  • Contributing to the launch (as Senior Associate Editor) of ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice.

  • Organizing the Special Session on Bio-Inspired Approaches to Cybersecurity at the 10th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (March 15-16).

  • Researching the science of cybersecurity at CERT.

  • Graduate course: Toward a Science of Cybersecurity at the University of Pittsburgh's iSchool.

  • Undergraduate course: Introduction to Logic (online) at the University of Pittsburgh.

Fall 2016 Updates:

• • Book proposal accepted by No Starch Press: Using Science in Cybersecurity (with Leigh Metcalf), Forthcoming.

  • Named Senior Associate Editor of ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice.

  • Named Program Committee member for the Special Session on Bio-Inspired Approaches to Cybersecurityat the 10th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies.

  • Organizing the next visitor for the "Science of Cybersecurity" set of lectures at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences: Patrick McDaniel (October 11).

  • Researching the science of cybersecurity at CERT.

  • Undergraduate courses: Introduction to Logic (online) and Problem Solving: How Science Works at the University of Pittsburgh.

Spring 2016 Updates:

• • Organizing the next visitor for the "Science of Cybersecurity" set of lectures at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences: Roy Maxion (March 25).

  • Researching the science of cybersecurity at CERT.

  • Undergraduate courses: Introduction to Logic (online) and Magic, Medicine, and Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

  • Learning Python.

Fall 2015 Updates:

• Organizing a "Science of Cybersecurity" set of lectures under the Cybersecurity Seminar Series umbrella at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences. First lecture: Fred Schneider (September 11).

  • Researching the science of cybersecurity at CERT.

  • Graduate course: Toward a Science of Cybersecurity at the University of Pittsburgh's iSchool.

  • Undergraduate courses: Introduction to Logic (online) at the University of Pittsburgh; History of Science at Duquesne University.