Keynote Speakers

2006 EIT Conference Presentation Descriptions

Lotfi Zadeh

Professor in the Graduate School, Computer Science Division
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720 -1776
Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)


Computer Science Division Tel: (510) 642-4959
University of California Fax: (510) 642-1712
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
zadeh@cs.berkeley.edu

Biography:
LOTFI A. ZADEH is a Professor in the Graduate School, Computer Science Division, Depart ment of EECS, University of California, Berkeley. In addition, he is serving as the Director of BISC (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing).

Lotfi Zadeh is an alumnus of the University of Teheran, MIT and Columbia University. He held visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ; MIT; IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, CA; SRI International, Menlo Park, CA; and the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University. His earlier work was concerned in the main with systems analysis, decision analysis and information systems. His current research is focused on fuzzy logic, computing with words and soft computing, which is a coalition of fuzzy logic, neurocomputing, evolutionary computing, probabilistic computing and parts of machine learning. The guiding principle of soft computing is that, in general, better solutions can be obtained by employing the constituent methodologies of soft computing in combination rather than in stand-alone mode.

Lotfi Zadeh is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, ACM and AAAI. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He is a recipient of the IEEE Education Medal, the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, the IEEE Medal of Honor, the ASME Rufus Oldenburger Medal, the B. Bolzano Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Kampe de Feriet Medal, the AACC Richard E. Bellman Central Heritage Award, the Grigore Moisil Prize, the Honda Prize, the Okawa Prize, the AIM Information Science Award, the IEEE-SMC J. P. Wohl Career Acheivement Award, the SOFT Scietific Contribution Memorial Award of the Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory, and other awards and honorary doctorates. He has published extensively on a wide variety of subjects relating to the conception, design and analysis of information/intelligent systems, and is serving on the editorial boards of over fifty journals.

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Manu Malek



Industry Professor of Computer Science and Director
Certificate in Cyber Security Program, at Stevens Institute of Technology


An overview of IT Security Forensics

Abstract:
Organizations increasingly rely on computing and intelligent networking infrastructures as keystones to their operations. Although the use of this technology provides many advantages, the Internet poses a unique set of vulnerabilities. Security attacks, such as worm and virus attacks, ID theft, and espionage, are examples of threats encountered daily by various institutions. Against this backdrop, it is clear that security is one of the most important IT concerns today. Security forensics is a discipline to identify the attackers and document their activity with sufficient reliability to justify appropriate technical, business, and legal responses. The discipline involves identification, preservation and analysis of evidence of security attacks. Forensic activity takes place in a complex, legal and social context which must be understood to fully appreciate its power and value. This talk provides an overview of security forensics and addresses some of the technological and legal issues involved. A brief overview of email forensics will be presented as an example.

Biography:
Manu Malek is Industry Professor of Computer Science and Director, Certificate in CyberSecurity Program, at Stevens Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Stevens, he was Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories. He has more than 20 years of experience in teaching, practicing, and research in communication networks design, optimization, operations, and management. He has held various academic positions in the US and overseas, as well as technical management positions with Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies) and AT&T Bell Laboratories. He is the author, co-author, or editor of seven books, co-holder of two patents, and the author or co-author of more than fifty published technical papers and numerous technical reports in the areas of network design, computer communications, and network operations and management. Dr. Malek is a fellow of the IEEE, an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer, and the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Network and Systems Management. He earned his Ph.D. in EE/CS from University of California, Berkeley.