UMBC ebiquity » MURI http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger EBB is the ebiquity research group\\\'s blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:50:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Five Cloud Computers and Information Sharing http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/07/28/five-cloud-computers-and-information-sharing/ http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/07/28/five-cloud-computers-and-information-sharing/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:15:03 +0000 Anupam Joshi http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=1576 There is an interesting panel to open the Microsoft faculty research summit featuring Rick Rashid, Daniel Reed, Ed Felten, Howard Schmidt, and Elizabeth Lawley. Lots of interesting ideas, but one that got thrown out was the recent idea that maybe the world does only need five (cloud) computers. If something like this really does happen, then perhaps we’ll need to think even more aggressively about the information sharing issues — is there some way for me to make sure that I only share with (say) Google’s cloud the things that are absolutely needed. Once I have given some information to Google, can I still retain some control over it. Who owns this information now? If I do, how do I know that Google will honor whatever commitments it makes about how it will use or further share that information ? We’ll be exploring some of these questions in our “Assured Information Sharing” Research. Some of the auditing work that MIT’s DIG group has done also ties in .

]]> http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/07/28/five-cloud-computers-and-information-sharing/feed/ 0 Our MURI grant gets some press http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/06/12/our-muri-grant-gets-some-press/ http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/06/12/our-muri-grant-gets-some-press/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:55:11 +0000 Anupam Joshi http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=1522 A UMBC led team recently won a MURI award from DoD to work on “Assured Information Sharing Lifecycle”. It is an interesting mix of work on  new security models, policy driven security systems, context awareness, privacy preserving data mining, and social networking. The award really brings together many different strains of research in eBiquity, as well as some related reserach in our department. We’re just starting off, and excited about it. UMBC’s web page had a story about this, and more recently, GCN covered it.

The UMBC team is lead by Tim Finin, and includes several of us. The other participants are UIUC (led by Jiawei Han), Purdue (led by Elisa Bertino),  UTSA (led by Ravi Sandhu), UTDallas (led by Bhavani Thurasingham), Michigan (Lada Adamic).

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