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Workshop on

Trust and Dependability in Mobile, Wireless, and Pervasive Computing Environments

Workshop Powerpoint Presentations

March 31 - April 1, 2003 at the Wyndham Buttes Resort, Tempe, Arizona

The Workshop will focus on dependability and security in mobile, wireless, grid, and other “always on” environments. 

With over 100 million users worldwide, mobile and wireless Internet access, whether over wide area cellular networks or wireless LANs, is changing the way in which people and organizations interact with a broad range of applications and services - mobile enterprise applications, mobile commerce, location-sensitive services, mobile payments, etc.

As consumers and enterprises embrace mobile and wireless technologies, key issues of trust and interoperability need to be addressed. The growing popularity of mobile and wireless access along with the emergence of ubiquitous computing scenarios makes many of these issues increasingly complex and at the same time harder to ignore.

The objective of this 2-day workshop is to provide a forum, where leading experts in the field come together and share their insights on emerging trends and challenges as well as future opportunities in this exciting new area.

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

·        Security and Interoperability – turning a patchwork of network standards into a seamless, secure and dependable environment

·        Trust and Interoperability in location-sensitive and context-aware applications and services

·        Mobile financial services

·        Mobile and ubiquitous enterprise applications

Cost: $795 
Click here to register.

The Sustainability Research Consortium

Information Technology is fast approaching money itself as the medium through which all commerce passes. Furthermore, it is the foundation for many critical systems on which industry depends, such as communications, transportation, and electrical power. A variety of specific examples establish sustainability as a critical business issue:

§          Recent estimates suggest that defective computer systems cost US companies over $200 billion annually.

§          According to the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon, the number of software vulnerabilities and security incidents more than doubled in 2001 to 52,658. These estimates represent only 20% of the actual number of incidents.

§          Nearly all of the major IT vendors are now emphasizing dependability as a primary attribute of their systems. But terms like “Dependability,” “Quality,” and “Security” have been primarily defined in marketing terms rather than as technical values. The SCC’s combined efforts will greatly advance our ability to measure, improve and assure such values.

§          Increased demand for interoperability and higher levels of customization and configuration make it difficult for a solution to be derived without contributions from all key stakeholders.

§          The problem is complex and multifaceted, crossing disciplinary boundaries, and requires combined solutions to the technical, economic, legal, and policy challenges facing IT users and suppliers.

§          Infrastructure dependability is an urgent national focus and many of the most challenging risks are in software.

§          Important software-related legal and policy discussions are now underway that require a broader understanding of the underlying economic and technical issues.

“For the national economy and, in particular, the information technology industry, the dearth of trusted reliable, secure information systems is a barrier to future growth.”

National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace

                                      September 18, 2002

For more information on becoming a Sponsor of the Consortium, please contact John Bourgein at (925) 376-8772 or e-mail bourgein@cs.cmu.edu.

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Sustainable Computing Consortium
Carnegie Mellon University

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