HCS is proud to be hosting Scott Bradner, the University Technology Security Officer at Harvard. He'll be talking to us about security and privacy at Harvard and beyond, about his work with ARIN, IETF, and the Internet Society, and about the early days of building the Internet. Hopefully, he'll share some stories from the early days of HCS, too - he was one of our early advisors. If you want to know about how the internet is governed, how new technologies are being integrated at Harvard, or just want to hear about the state of security at Harvard, join us!

We'll be visiting the Network Operations Center (NOC) at UIS's 60 Oxford St. facility, courtesy of Harvard's Network Manager Jay Tumas. Harvard's network is huge and serves a large number of people. Plus, Harvard is very closely involved with several big external projects, such as Internet2 and even the IETF. Plus, how can you turn down the opportunity to see a cold-war style operations center with screens on the wall, flashing maps, alarms when things go wrong. . .

Prof. Greg Morrisett will be joining us on Tuesday, April 22 at 4 PM to talk about Cyclone, a safer version of C. This will be a good talk for anyone interested in what software vulnerabilities are, why they keep happening, how we can fix them, or why a course like CS152 or CS153 might be interesting and useful. The talk will be in MD 123

HCS regularly brings in interesting speakers on topics in computer science, technology, and their relationship with the rest of the world. This month, we're proud to be hosting Peter G. Neumann, one of the original developers of Multics, moderator of the ACM Risks Forum, and a graduate of Harvard. Dr. Neumann will speak about his personal experience with mathematical computer science and will present short stories on lots of exciting topics (read on to find out what). We'll also have plenty of time for questions and discussion. We'll likely go to dinner afterwards.

Date: April 11, 2008