At Harvard, Warigia
Bowman focuses on the digital divide. She has published case studies on
Texas and African digital divide issues. She has developed a framework for
the emergence of the digital divide on the national agenda based on political
science and science and technology studies. Her publications include an analysis
of UCITA. She is examining the role of technology strategic alliances among
the public sector, non-governmental organizations and industry play in facilitating
technology diffusion and infrastructure development to under-served geographic
areas
At Harvard, Allan Friedman is examining the
multiple dimensions of privacy and security -- " privacy in public"
and seclusion, CHI and security, as well as private sector and public sector
responses to privacy. He has presented on the values embedded in the "broadcast
flag" proposal, universal identifiers, and on communicating the state
of trustworthy systems.
In Informatics PhD program Debin Liu is currently working on classification and effective mitigation of the insider threat challenge. His work, funded by the The I3P began with a stochastic gmae theoretic analysis of the insider/defender game and in moving on to to develop tools to incent security-aware behavior in the organization. He completed a series of examinations of
proof-of-work as an economic proposal. Given that spammers use botnets, and thus face a different production
frontier than legitimate email users, under what conditions will proof of work actually work?
In computer science, Camilo Viecco has expanded from his studies of
honeypot visualization to include the economics of security. Sensor probes distribute information both to attackers and
defenders. Camilo has illustrated that while prevention of probe identification is not possible, it is possible to make such identification
expensive for attackers and affordable for defenders while providing high quality information to the entire public.
Tonya Stroman is a doctoral candidate in HCI at Informatics. Her work is on effective risk communication in both directions. First, she is working on effective risk communication to end users using narratives, where she has already developed narrative communication mechanisms. Secondly, she is working on effective communication from naive users to designers in order to enable deisgns that address the legitimate but highly variable privacy concerns of individuals.
J Duncan is a doctoral candidate in computer science. His interests
include: Artificial Intelligence, ALife, Malware defense, and
User-Centered Trusted Computing. Currently, his research involves using
the methods of artificial intelligence to examine the potential role of
a user-centered TCB in malware defense. His work combines the techniques
of artificial intelligence, the technology of TCBs and the fundamentals
of markets.
Hillary Elmore is a masters students with a mastery of political science who is working on usability and PGP.
Brandon Stephens is a masters student with an undergraduate degree in economics. His work with me focuses on behavioral and rational economics of security. He also works on sustainable design, including environmentally aware design.
These are students with whom I have worked, and with whom I continue to interact at other Universities.
Alla Genkina worked with me to develop the Net Trust
prototype and fundamental usability research. She continues this work, which built upon social networks
to identify and share information about web sites being trustworthy. She began with
an explicit usability approach, solving the human problem first. She is currently a PhD student at UCLA.
Tony
Moore used an explicit S&T approach to examine if and how individuals
who share files express their values (of sharing or theft) in selection of
P2P software. He is continuing his work at Drexel, with a focus on Science and Technology studies.
Doctoral
At IU Alex Tsow is a Visiting Researcher and
Ph. D. student at Indiana University. Currently, he is investigating the roles
of technology and economics on identity fraud. He has recently exposed a
gaping vulnerability
in the consumer wireless infrastructure. He is also developing an infrastructure to
fight distributed phishing attacks.
His thesis work is on
design derivation, a interactive formal method for
correct-by-construction system design.
At MIT Serena Chan focused on building a space-based backbone for satellite processing. A particularly interesting bit of work, she
the technology and economics of moving beyond custom-designed hardware, to a space-based infrastructure.
Carlos Osorio completed one of the most significant models of the
economics and market dynamics of open source software, showing that illegal copies serve to introduce, market and create lock-in in developing countries
for closed code. His dissertation focused on the availability of broadband in American communities, and illustrated the power of competition.
Sabine
Schaffer focused on consumer trust behavior on the web, and as my pre-doctoral fellow at Harvard she completed her dissertation.
Her dissertation is the basis for The Role of Trust on the Internet: The Development of an Online Trust Creation Model for eTravel Agents, now available for purchase.
Another previous pre-doctoral fellow at Harvard, Sara
Wilford completed extensive research on personal conceptions of privacy in the UK and the US. She is currently
a researcher at Warwick Business School back in the United Kingdom.
Exceptional Masters Students
(not an all-inclusive list)
Informatics Lecturer and researcher Matt Hottell
and Drew Carter, an Informatics masters student, completed a war-driving experiment in Bloomington that
covered nearly 2500 wireless networks. Regression analysis illustrated that there was no significant effect in terms of predicting security
for income or education. Nor does housing density predict use of security. Only router type predicts security use. Those routers with
easy to use security and security as a default predict security use. And the selection of router is not correlated with the demographic variables.
Matt Deniszcuk,an undergraduate, worked with Matt Hottell and Drew Carter on data compilation. He used the recent war-driving data and did a comparison
of data from the previous year. He discovered that despite the significant investment made by IU in security education, the presence of students in an
apartment complex was correlated with a decrease in wireless security. This counter-intuitive finding was enabled only by careful experiment design.
Future research will examine not only more changes over time, but be complemented by qualitative research on student risk perception.
Also in computer science Shreyas Kamath.
Gayathri
Athreya supported experimentation on human response to betrayals using a game-theoretic
approach. She graduated with a Masters in Informatics.
While at the Kennedy School my primary interaction was with students at the
masters level. I have been fortunate to work with some exceptional students
including Brian Anderson, with whom I wrote a paper on universal service in Bangladesh. Fu-Shoun Mao and I completed a study on the digital divide in Thailand.
With Charles Vincent and Serena Syme, our work focused on code as governance. Examining the popular code as law
meme Charles and I examined
Standards as Governance. Serena Syme did a comprehensive analysis of the various
open and closed code licenses, resulting in papers on Code as Governance, Governance as Code as well as an examination of licenses as governance published as a comparison in Computers and Society.
I particularly appreciated Taiyu Chen who assisted in organizing
the Harvard Voting Symposium and completed research on the economics of identity. Max Bishop did an award-winning analysis of the use
of ICT in the FBI, which won the best thesis award (called a Policy Analysis Exercise at KSG).