4.1 MIT CYBER THEORY SEMINAR

Spring 2013

March 7, 2013
Lucas Kello, Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
International Security Implications of Cyber Weapons

April 25, 2013
Joshua Haines,Group Leader in the Cyber Systems and Operations Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Operating Through Cyber Attack: Assess and Survive!

May 2, 2013
Vikek Mohan, Fellow, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program's Information and Communications Technology and Public Policy Project, Harvard Kennedy School
Considerations in Developing Cyber Insurance Markets

May 9, 2013
Evann Smith, PhD Candidate, Government Department, Harvard University
Networks of Collective Action: The Emergence of High Risk and Decentralized Protest in the Egyptian Uprising

May 16, 2013
Zachary Tumin, Special Assistant to the Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School
Writing Cases: Theory, Practice, and the (Not-So Strange) Case of Zero-Day Malware


Spring 2012

March 8, 2012
David D. Clark, Senior Research Scientist at CSAIL, MIT
Control Points

March 15, 2012
Herbert Lin, Chief Scientist at the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council of the National Academies
Escalation Dynamics

April 5, 2012
Joseph Kelly, Chief of Cyber Intelligence, Office of the Under Secretary, Department of Defense
Cyber and International Relations: A Practitioner’s View

April 12, 2012
Josephine Wolff, SM Candidate, Engineering Systems Division, MIT
Accountability at the Application Layer 

May 10, 2012
Aadya Shukla, Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
A Framework for Organizing National Cybersecurity Strategies


Fall 2011

October 6, 2011
Chintan Vaishnav, Postdoctoral Associate, Political Science Department, MIT
Internet and Political Engagement: A New Integrated Model of Cyber-Democracy

October 13, 2011
Roger Hurwitz, Research Scientist, CSAIL, MIT
Can Norms be the Norm in Cyberspace?

October 27, 2011
Silvio Micali, Ford Professor of Engineering, CSAIL, MIT
Virtual Trust and Fair Electronic Exchange

November 10, 2011
Mark Finlayson, Doctoral Candidate, CSAIL, MIT
Narrative Structures and their Application to Cyber-International Relations


Spring 2011

February 24, 2011
Nazli Choucri, Professor of Political Science
Introduction to Key Challenges

March 10, 2011
Chappell Lawson, Associate Professor of Political Science
Political Communication and the Department of Homeland Security

April 28, 2011
Patrick Winston, Ford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Computer Science
The history of AI, the Future of AI, and Implications for Cyber Conflict

May 12, 2011
Michael Sechrist, Research Fellow, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School
The Significance of Undersea Cables to the State Part II

May 19, 2011
Chintan Vaishnav, Postdoctoral Associate, Political Science Department, MIT
The Impact of Actor Heterogeneity on Influence and Control in ECIR

May 26, 2011
Shirley Hung, Postdoctoral Associate, CSAIL, MIT
A Different Vision of Openness: The Chinese Internet

June 2, 2011
Fred Taylor, National Security Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Cyberspace Superiority: Assessment of Department of Defense's ability to achieve Superiority in Cyberspace

June 9, 2011
Jesse Sowell, PhD Student, MIT Engineering System Division; Advanced Network Architecture Group
Theories Applied in the Internet Governance Literature

June 16, 2011
Aadya Shukla, Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Establishing the Baseline: A Framework for Organizing National Cyber Strategies