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SUMMARY:Reflection on Java Security and Its Practical Impacts - Li Gong
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CONTACT:Wei Ming Khoo
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I look back to a (then) new Java security archite
 cture that was designed 15 years ago and is now standard across all Java p
 latforms\,\nand draw lessons from that experience. For example\, design se
 curity technologies that are appropriate for the target set of "customers"
  (e.g.\, programmer or users?)\; manage the constant conflicts between the
  want (of the enforcers) to protect and the desire (of the enforced) for f
 reedom\; and why lasting impact is often practical rather than theoretical
 \, given that no\nuseful security is absolute. This will not be a typical 
 research talk\, but I will throw in some anecdotal stories to (try) make i
 t worthwhile.\n\nSpeaker's Bio: Li Gong was in the PhD program at the Comp
 uter Lab from 1987 till 1990. He had a flourishing research career before 
 joining the newly formed JavaSoft in 1996 to become Chief Java Security Ar
 chitect and led the design and implementation of a new Java security archi
 tecture that is now in common use today. His corporate career included gen
 eral manager of Sun Microsystems China R&D center\, general manager of the
  online division of MSN in China for Microsoft\, and now CEO of Mozilla On
 line Ltd.\, the Beijing-based subsidiary of the Mozilla Corporation. He al
 so has an entrepreneurial side and participated in a number of startups in
  the Sillicon Valley and in China.\n\nHe served as both Program Chair and 
 General Conference Chair for ACM CCS\, IEEE S&P\, and IEEE CSFW. He was As
 sociate Editor of ACM TISSEC and Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Interne
 t Computing. He held visiting positions at Cornell and Stanford\, and was 
 a Guest Chair Professor at Tsinghua University\, Beijing. He has 14 issued
  US patents (2 of which were among the 7 patents that Oracle cited in the 
 lawsuit against Google in August 2010)\, co-authored 3 books (published by
  Addison Wesley and O’Reilly) and many technical articles\, and received
  the 1994 Leonard G. Abraham Award given by the IEEE Communications Societ
 y for “the most significant contribution to technical literature in the 
 field of interest of the IEEE.”
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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