Sustainable Computing Consortium Hosts Workshop

On Trust and Dependability in Wireless Environments

PITTSBURGH, March 13, 2003 – A workshop hosted by the Sustainable Computing Consortium (SCC) of Carnegie Mellon University will bring together thought leaders from industry, government and academia to focus on the "hard problems" of interoperability, dependability and security in mobile, wireless, grid and other always-on environments. The workshop will be held March 31 - April 1 at the Wyndham Buttes Resort in Tempe, Arizona.

"Mobile and wireless Internet access--with more than 100 million users already--is fundamentally changing the ways in which people and organizations both interact and transact," said Dr. William Guttman, director of the SCC. "As consumers and enterprises continue to embrace these technologies, issues of trust and interoperability become increasingly critical. This workshop will serve as a forum for leading experts to address emerging trends, challenges and future opportunities."

The workshop's keynote presentation will be delivered by Walt Davis, chief scientist of Motorola, who will address the subject of "Mobile Security and Interoperability." Featured speakers will include:

§ Dr. Fernando (Frank) L. Fernandez, former Director of the Defense Advanced Research Products Agency (DARPA), will discuss "Mobile and Wireless Challenges in Context-Aware Battlefield Scenarios." Under Dr. Fernandez’ leadership, DARPA served as the Department of Defense’s premier change-leader in such areas as biological-warfare defense, information security, precision strike and robotics.

§ James J. Halpert, Esq., Partner, Piper Rudnick, will talk on "Privacy, Trust and Interoperability in a Mobile Environment." Halpert has helped negotiate and draft many of the U.S. laws that apportion liability on the Internet, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, Communications Decency Act, the Protection of Children from Sexual Predators Act, and the Internet False Identification Act of 2000.

§ Clifford A. Wilke, Director, Bank Technology, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Committee on Bank Supervision, will speak on "Mobile Financial Services, the Regulatory Outlook."

Also in attendance at the workshop will be Dr. Norman Sadeh, Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and Director of the Mobile Commerce Lab and the e-Supply Chain Management Lab. Dr. Sadeh will be signing copies of his best-selling book, "Marketing Without Wires: Targeting Promotions and Advertising to Mobile Device Users."

The workshop will focus on four sets of closely related topics:

§ Security and Interoperability: Transforming a Patchwork of Network Standards in a Seamless, Secure and Dependable Environment

§ Trust and Interoperability in Location -Sensitive and Context-Aware Applications and Services

§ Mobile Payments

§ Mobile and Pervasive Enterprise Applications

Among the participants in the workshop will be many members of the Sustainable Computing Consortium, which currently includes AIG, Alcoa, Boeing, Caterpillar, Cerner, Cigital, Cisco, Confluence, FedEx, General Atlantic Partners, General Motors, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Keybank, Labware, Mellon Financial, Merck, Microsoft, NASA Ames Research Center, Oracle, Pfizer, PrintCafe, Programming Research, Raytheon, RedSiren, Reed Smith, SAIC, Seagate Research, TATA Consultancy, UPMC Health System, Vanguard, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati.

Other participating organizations will include Intel, ExxonMobil, NIST, Avaya, Visto, and Funk Software.

Registration information and additional details about the workshop are available at www.security.scs.cmu.edu.

About the Sustainable Computing Consortium

The Sustainable Computing Consortium (SCC) is a collaborative initiative among major corporate information technology users, software developers, suppliers, academic leaders and government agencies to improve software quality, dependability and security. It draws on the expertise of its members and research faculty in all disciplines related to sustainable software, including computer science, electrical engineering, security and survivability, information technology management, statistics, economics and public policy. For more information, visit http://www.sustainablecomputing.org/