Dan Wallach / Talks

Java Security, October 1999
An overview of Java security including recent bugs and current research being done in the area.
Posgrados y Estancias Sabáticas, October 1999 (with Eyal de Lara)
An introduction to the Rice Department of Computer Science with availble research and post-doctoral opportunities. (This talk is half English, half Spanish.)
Puppeteer: Component-based adaptation for mobile computing, October, 1999 (with Eyal de Lara and Willy Zwaenepoel)
An introduction to the Puppeteer project with some preliminary results from our Web characterization.
The Risks of E-Voting Machines (2004)
Modern "direct recording electronic" (DRE) voting machines have no safeguards against faulty or fradulent programming by their designers.
Hack-a-Vote: Demonstrating Security Issues with Electronic Voting Systems (2004)
An in-class project allows students to "hack" a voting system and to try to discover their colleagues hacks.
Adventures in Electronic Voting Research (2007)
This talk discusses several topics, including our observations in Webb County, Texas's 2006 primary, the design of the Auditorium networked voting system, and the California Top-to-Bottom review. The slides, below, also include some discussion of Sarasota's CD13 confusion in the November '06 election (not in the YouTube link due to time constraints).
Dan Wallach, CS Department, Rice University
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