UC Berkeley Professor Ruzena Bajcsy elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

A press release issued by UCBerkeleyNews announced that University of California Berkeley Professor Ruzena Bajcsy has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

"The Academy honors excellence by electing to membership remarkable men and women who have made preeminent contributions to their fields, and to the world," academy president Emilio Bizzi said in a prepared statement.

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences is one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers.

Automatic Patch-Based Exploit Generation is Possible: Techniques and Implementations

A paper by David Brumley, Pongsin Poosankam, Dawn Song (TRUST) and Jiang Zheng, "Automatic Patch-Based Exploit Generation is Possible: Techniques and Implications" is getting quite a bit of press:

• Slashdot
  
• Bruce Schneier's Cryptogram
  
• PC World
  
• The Register
  

Electronic Voting at the RSA Conference

The RSA Conference April 7-11, 2008 in San Francisco resulted in a few news items about the work of David Wagner.

On April 10, CNet's article, "Expert says flawed e-voting systems need constant audits," discusses Wagner's voting machine audit proposal.

On April 10, SecurityFocus' article, "Researchers tell voting firms, time for a truce," discusses efforts by security researchers and voting machine vendors to work together. Wagner is quoted: "Voting system vendors are, today, where Microsoft was ten years ago."

On April 11, ABC News had an article about threats to the upcoming US Presidential Election. The same article appears at PC World.

Update: On April 11, The Register's article, "Where were you when you learned e-voting was unreliable? presents another view on the conference.

Update: On April 16, Cringley discusses the issue with, "Voting accidents and other avoidable tragedies