Cybercrime and Cyberwarfare

Tuesday, December 6, 2011
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
(Pacific)
CISAC Conference Room
Speaker: 
  • David Bishop

 

Cybercrime and Cyberwarfare:

What are they, where did they come from and

why are they an existential threat?

 


Speaker biographies:

David Bishop is head of Materials and Engineering and professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at Boston University. He is a current scientific advisor and former chief technology officer at LGS, a division of Bell Laboratories, the leading company providing network solutions to the U.S. federal government. LGS provides expertise in facilities management, network architecture and network operations, broadband and wireless networking solutions, systems engineering, and telecommunications products.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was a recipient of the Bausch and Lomb Honorary Science Award and the Nanotech Briefs’ Nano50 Innovator Award. His research interests include cybersecurity and protecting critical infrastructure, nanotechnology, and low temperature physics.