Sean Smith
Dartmouth College
Department of Computer Science
Marcus Hall, Gunness Conference Room
Faculty Host: Kevin Fu
Computing does not occur for its own sake; rather, it only has meaning in the context of real human processes. Similarly, technology to provide security and privacy in computing only makes sense if it
embodies the intentions of its human users. This talk presents some of my lab's recent work in this area, including a positive result (using distributed PKI attributes to enable human users to quickly draw trust conclusions about email from unknown senders) and a negative result (educating humans about privacy issues actually makes them worse at crafting privacy polices for things such as Facebook).
Bios: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sws/