Wednesday 21st November 2018: Prof Luca Viganò KCL

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The popular UCL Research Programming Technical Socials are now expanding, under the “Knowledge Quarter Codes” name, to welcome participation from academic and industrial organisations across the Knowledge Quarter - the area within a 1-mile radius of King’s Cross station -.

They will be hosted within UCL's Chandler House premises every third Wednesday of the month from 5pm to 6:30pm.

We hope you can join us for the first of these larger events !

This event

Explainable Security

Abstract

Inspired by DARPA’s Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) program, Daniele Magazzeni and I proposed a new paradigm in security research: Explainable Security (XSec). In this talk, I will discuss the “Six Ws” of XSec (Who? What? Where? When? Why? and How?) and argue that XSec has unique and complex characteristics: XSec involves several different stakeholders (i.e., the system’s developers, analysts, users and attackers) and is multi-faceted by nature (as it requires reasoning about system model, threat model and properties of security, privacy and trust as well as about concrete attacks, vulnerabilities and countermeasures). I will define a roadmap for XSec that identifies several possible research directions. As a concrete example, I will show how some basic cybersecurity notions (and even some advanced ones) can be explained with the help of some famous and some perhaps less obvious movies and other artworks.

About the speaker

Are you a UCL student or staff member who builds or maintains software for research?

Would you like to? Is writing code part of your scientific or scholarly life?

Please join us for the UCL Knowledge Quarter Codes Technical Socials.

These informal events are for anyone with an interest in the computational methods and technology behind research and innovation. They are an opportunity to get to know fellow practitioners, and to discuss and learn about useful tools and techniques which may help with your work.

These are held monthly, 17.00 - 18.30, with a format as follows:

• 17:00-17:45: Short talk on a tool, program, environment, language or technique of general interest to programming researchers.
• 17:45-18:30: Discussion of a matter of interest to programming researchers, inspired by the talk, over pizza and drinks.

Previous events

• Dr Tom Dowrick: "Software Engineering for Novel Surgical Devices and Techniques"
• Dr Jeremy Cohen: "Running Scientific Applications on HPC Infrastructure Using Singularity: A Case Study"
• Dr Chris Richardson: "Interfacing Python to C++: some experiences with FEniCS Project"
• Dr Peter Bloomfield: "The Machine Intelligence Garage: removing barriers from the AI startup ecosystem"
• Professor Anthony Steed: "Rise, Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality"
• Dr Stewart Martin Haugh: "Throwing away 99.999975% of your data: triggering at the ATLAS experiment"

Find out more on the UCL Research Programming Hub website.