According to Popular Mechanics, DARPA, the defense research group, wants better vehicles.  They want them faster and cheaper.  In order to accomplish this feat, they are looking to computer circuit builders.

State violation attacks towards web applications exploit logic flaws and allow restrictive functions and sensitive information to be accessed at inappropriate states. Since application logic flaws are specific to the intended functionality of a particular web application, it is difficult to develop a general approach that addresses state violation attacks. To date, existing approaches all require web application source code for analysis or instrumentation in order to detect state violations. In this paper, we present BLOCK, a Black-box approach for detecting state violation attacks.

Robonaut 2, or R2, arrived on the International Space Station in February 2011 and is currently undergoing testing in preparation for it to become, initially, an Intra-Vehicular Activity (IVA) tool, and then evolve into a system that can perform Extra-Vehicular Activities (EVA).  For approximately one year, the fixed base R2 will perform a variety of experiments using a reconfigurable task board that was launched with the robot. 

Friday, October 28 at 11:00 am in the Gray conference room on the first floor. ISIS 1025 16th Ave. South. 

Recently, many applications have arisen in distributed control that require consensus protocols. Concurrently, there have been a proliferation of malicious attacks on large-scale distributed systems. This talk addresses reaching consensus in the presence of adversaries, whenever the network is itself changing due to lossy channels or mobile agents.