From awd at cs.cmu.edu Tue Oct 2 18:05:58 2012 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:05:58 -0400 Subject: [Research] Poll: the date for the Auton Lab Picnic In-Reply-To: <5064A769.1060502@cs.cmu.edu> References: <50630146.2050606@cs.cmu.edu> <5064A769.1060502@cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <506B6546.2050003@cs.cmu.edu> So, we will have the picnic on Sunday! Please mark your calendars. Given the gloomy weather outlook for this weekend, we are looking for indoor venue options. If you happen to have good ideas regarding that would you please share them with Karen W., Karen C., Saswati and I. Thanks! Artur On 9/27/2012 3:22 PM, Artur Dubrawski wrote: > Thank you very much everyone who has already responded! > > We are still short of votes from a few team members. > Right now, it looks like Sunday is ahead of Saturday > in terms of the total count of availability. > > As soon as we have the date selected, we would need > to decide about the location. > > I the recent past, we had our picnics at: > > * Moraine State Park, which is on a nice lake, > and offers activities such as biking and kayaking, > but is about 45 minutes of a car ride north of the city > > * North Park, biking still available, no boating, > closer to town > > I am not looking for the votes for or against those > locations right now. But please feel free to add > one or more of your favorite spots for us to > consider. > > Thanks! > Artur > > > On 9/26/2012 9:21 AM, Artur Dubrawski wrote: >> I would like to invite you to the Doodle poll "Auton Lab Picnic". >> >> Please follow the link in order to participate in the poll: >> http://doodle.com/qq2ep3aw5gurymc3 >> _______________________________________________ >> Research mailing list >> Research at autonlab.org >> https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/research >> > _______________________________________________ > Research mailing list > Research at autonlab.org > https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/research > From awd at cs.cmu.edu Wed Oct 3 10:51:10 2012 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:51:10 -0400 Subject: [Research] cake slogan competition (prize involved) In-Reply-To: <506B6546.2050003@cs.cmu.edu> References: <50630146.2050606@cs.cmu.edu> <5064A769.1060502@cs.cmu.edu> <506B6546.2050003@cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <506C50DE.7030909@cs.cmu.edu> One more important thing we need for the upcoming picnic: A slogan to put on the Lab's birthday cake! Let's have a little competition here. Please submit your suggestions to Jeff, Barnabas, and I, and we will use a fair and unbiased process to select the winner. There will be a prestigious prize involved, so do not miss this exquisite opportunity to make a lasting impact on the Lab's image! Submissions are accepted till noon on Friday. As a reminder, the previous winner read: "Auton Lab - 10001 years old - We chase top models" Thanks, Artur On 10/2/2012 6:05 PM, Artur Dubrawski wrote: > So, we will have the picnic on Sunday! > Please mark your calendars. > > Given the gloomy weather outlook for this weekend, > we are looking for indoor venue options. > If you happen to have good ideas regarding that > would you please share them with Karen W., > Karen C., Saswati and I. > > Thanks! > Artur > > > On 9/27/2012 3:22 PM, Artur Dubrawski wrote: >> Thank you very much everyone who has already responded! >> >> We are still short of votes from a few team members. >> Right now, it looks like Sunday is ahead of Saturday >> in terms of the total count of availability. >> >> As soon as we have the date selected, we would need >> to decide about the location. >> >> I the recent past, we had our picnics at: >> >> * Moraine State Park, which is on a nice lake, >> and offers activities such as biking and kayaking, >> but is about 45 minutes of a car ride north of the city >> >> * North Park, biking still available, no boating, >> closer to town >> >> I am not looking for the votes for or against those >> locations right now. But please feel free to add >> one or more of your favorite spots for us to >> consider. >> >> Thanks! >> Artur >> >> >> On 9/26/2012 9:21 AM, Artur Dubrawski wrote: >>> I would like to invite you to the Doodle poll "Auton Lab Picnic". >>> >>> Please follow the link in order to participate in the poll: >>> http://doodle.com/qq2ep3aw5gurymc3 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Research mailing list >>> Research at autonlab.org >>> https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/research >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Research mailing list >> Research at autonlab.org >> https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/research >> > _______________________________________________ > Research mailing list > Research at autonlab.org > https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/research > From awd at cs.cmu.edu Wed Oct 3 17:45:38 2012 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:45:38 -0400 Subject: [Research] Auton Lab picnic this Sunday at Dave and Buster's! Message-ID: <506CB202.7000909@cs.cmu.edu> Autonians, Given the pessimistic weather forecast we are going to have our picnic indoors. Dave and Buster's is a fun venue. If you have not been there yet, take a look: http://www.daveandbusters.com/locations/StoreInformation.aspx?trackid=26_PA__PITTSBURGH&StoreId=26 We will have a party room, the Lab will buy lunch buffet food, and each participant will get a $10 play card. The place opens officially at 11:30, but we are looking at possibly having it open for us a bit earlier. More info on that when it is available. ***IMPORTANT*** We need the exact head count soon. If you are joining, would you please email Karen Widmaier (cc-d) whether you will be by yourself or with a spouse/friend and children. This is a family event :) It should be fun! Artur From krw at andrew.cmu.edu Thu Oct 4 12:10:03 2012 From: krw at andrew.cmu.edu (Karen Widmaier) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 12:10:03 -0400 Subject: [Research] PLEASE respond ASAP: Auton Lab picnic this Sunday at Dave and Buster's! Message-ID: <01e301cda24a$b6b99e30$242cda90$@andrew.cmu.edu> Hello, Please respond to me as soon as possible so that we can get a firm headcount for Sunday's event. I will need to know if you are coming and number of guests. Thanks in advance, Karen -----Original Message----- From: Artur Dubrawski [mailto:awd at cs.cmu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 5:46 PM To: research at autonlab.org Cc: Karen Widmaier Subject: Auton Lab picnic this Sunday at Dave and Buster's! Autonians, Given the pessimistic weather forecast we are going to have our picnic indoors. Dave and Buster's is a fun venue. If you have not been there yet, take a look: http://www.daveandbusters.com/locations/StoreInformation.aspx?trackid=26_PA_ _PITTSBURGH&StoreId=26 We will have a party room, the Lab will buy lunch buffet food, and each participant will get a $10 play card. The place opens officially at 11:30, but we are looking at possibly having it open for us a bit earlier. More info on that when it is available. ***IMPORTANT*** We need the exact head count soon. If you are joining, would you please email Karen Widmaier (cc-d) whether you will be by yourself or with a spouse/friend and children. This is a family event :) It should be fun! Artur From awd at cs.cmu.edu Fri Oct 5 09:26:02 2012 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:26:02 -0400 Subject: [Research] Auton Lab Picnic this Sunday: 11:30am start Message-ID: <506EDFEA.6010103@cs.cmu.edu> Dave and Buster's opens at 11:30am. We will have lunch buffet at 12noon. And a party room for 4 hours. Upon arrival, let the staff know you are with the CMU Auton Lab and they will guide you to our room. :-) A. From awd at cs.cmu.edu Tue Oct 9 16:16:44 2012 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:16:44 -0400 Subject: [Research] Fwd: 2013 IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5074862C.1020609@cs.cmu.edu> Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the first call for papers and workshops, for ISI2013. Please forward to your colleagues to whom you believe may be interested in the subject conference. Sincerely, The 2013 IEEE ISI Conference Organizers _________________________________________ IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) 2013 Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals June 4-7, 2013, Seattle, WA, USA *THEME: */Big Data, Emergent Threats and Decision-Making in Security Informatics/ *HOST: *Pacific Northwest National Laboratory *Conference website: *http://ISIconference2013.org/ Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) research is an interdisciplinary research field involving academic researchers in information technologies, computer science, public policy, bioinformatics, and social and behavior studies as well as local, state, and federal law enforcement and intelligence experts, and information technology industry consultants and practitioners to support counterterrorism and homeland security missions of anticipation, interdiction, prevention, preparedness and response to terrorist acts. The annual IEEE International ISI Conference series was started in 2003. Meeting have been held in Tucson, AZ (twice); Atlanta, GA; San Diego, CA; New Brunswick, NJ; Taipei, Taiwan; Dallas, TX; Vancouver, Canada; and Beijing, China, and Washington D.C. Proceedings of these ISI meetings and workshops have been published by the IEEE Press and in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. *ISI 2013 will be organized in three main streams focusing on* * Big Data in Security Informatics * Emergent Threats * Decision-Making in Security Informatics Submissions may include systems, methodology, test-bed, modeling, evaluation, and policy papers. Research should be relevant to informatics, organization, or public policy in applications of counter-terrorism or protection of local/national/international security in the physical world or cyberspace. Topics include but are not limited to: *Big Data in Security Informatics* * Information Sharing and Data/Text Mining Intelligence-related knowledge discovery * Computer or cybercrime investigations and digital forensics * Criminal investigative criteria and standard of procedure on Computer crime * Criminal data mining and network analysis * Forecasting crime and the impact of crime * Criminal/intelligence information sharing and visualization * Crime pattern recognition and modeling tools * Web-based intelligence monitoring and analysis * Spatial-temporal data analysis/GIS for crime analysis and security informatics * Deception and intent detection * Cyber-crime detection and analysis * Authorship analysis and identification * Applications of digital library technologies in intelligence data processing, preservation, sharing, and analysis * Agents and collaborative systems for intelligence sharing * HCI and user interfaces of relevance to intelligence and security * Information sharing policy and governance * Privacy, security, and civil liberties issues * Intelligence-computerized community security and surveillance system *Emergent Threats* * Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Responses * Cyber-Physical-Social system security and incident management * Cyber-infrastructure design and protection * Intrusion detection * Bio-terrorism tracking, alerting, and analysis * Bio-terrorism information infrastructure * Transportation and communication infrastructure protection * Border/transportation safety * Law Enforcement decision support systems * Emergency response and management * Disaster prevention, detection, and management * Communication and decision support for search and rescue * Assisting citizens' responses to terrorism and catastrophic events * Computer forensics and crime lead discovery * Anti-fraud information technology * Terrorism Informatics * Terrorism related analytical methodologies and software tools * Terrorism knowledge portals and databases * Terrorist incident chronology databases * Terrorism root cause analysis * Social network analysis (radicalization, recruitment, conducting operations), visualization, and simulation * Forecasting terrorism * Countering terrorism * Measuring the impact of terrorism on society * Measuring the effectiveness of counter-terrorism campaigns * Crime intelligence and cyberspace crime investigation * Immigration and security *Decision-Making in Security Informatics* * Enterprise Risk Management and Information Systems Security * Information security management standards * Information systems security policies * Behavior issues in information systems security * Fraud detection * Cybercrime and social impacts * Corporate going concerns and risks * Accounting and IT auditing * Corporate governance and monitoring * Board activism and influence * Corporate sentiment surveillance * Market influence analytics and media intelligence * Consumer-generated media and social media analytics *IMPORTANT DATES* * Paper submission due date: February 15, 2013 * Notification of acceptance: March 18, 2013 * Due date for Workshop proposals: February 18, 2013 *PAPER SUBMISSION* Submission file formats are PDF and Microsoft Word. Required Word/LaTeX templates (IEEE two-column format) can be found at the conference Web site. Long (6,000 words, 6 pages max) and short (3000 words, 3 pages max.) Papers in English must be submitted electronically via the conference Web site. The accepted papers from ISI 2013 and its affiliated workshops will be published by the IEEE Press in formal Proceedings. IEEE ISI Proceedings are EI-indexed. Authors who wish to present a poster and/or demo may submit a 1-page extended abstract, which, if selected, will appear in Proceedings. The selected IEEE ISI 2013 best papers will be invited for contribution to the Springer Security Informatics journal. The deadline for paper submissions is February 15, 2013. Paper submission instructions and template information can be found at on the Submissions page at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeisi2013. ** *Best papers awards will be given in three categories:* * Best paper * Runner-up paper * Best student paper * Runner-up student paper. *WORKSHOPS* In conjunction with ISI 2013, several workshops will be held on June 4, 2013.Special-topic workshops in any areas of Intelligence and Security Informatics research and practice are welcome. Such events will be an integral part of the ISI-2013 conference program. Proposals in PDF or Microsoft Word not exceeding 3 pages should be emailed to the conference organizing committee at antonio at pnnl.gov by February 18, 2012 and contain the following information. * Title of tutorial/workshop * Preferred duration (half day vs. full day) * Brief bios of proposed instructor(s)/organizer(s) * Objectives to be achieved * Scope of topics to be covered * Target audience and the list of potential presenters/contributors *Conference Organizing Committee* *General Co-Chairs:* * Antonio Sanfilippo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA * Anne Kao, Boeing, USA * Michael Gabbay, University of Washington, USA *Steering Committee chair:* * Hsinchun Chen, Univ. of Arizona, USA * Daniel Zeng, Univ. of Arizona, USA * Chris Yang, Drexel University, USA *Program Co-Chairs:* * Latifur Khan, UT Dallas, USA * Jiexun (Jason) Li, Drexel University, USA * Courtney Corley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA *Workshop Co-Chairs:* * Andrew Cowell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA * Antonio E Badia, University of Louisville, USA * Paul Thompson, Dartmouth College, USA *Poster Co-Chairs:* * Artur Dubrawski, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Uffe Kock Wiil, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark *Local Arrangements Co-Chairs:* * Jeffrey Kim, University of Washington, USA *Finance and Registration Co-Chair:* * Ahmad R. Yaghoobi, Boeing, USA *Publication Co-Chairs:* * Richard Colbaugh, Sandia National Lab, USA * Kristin Glass, New Mexico Tech, USA From schneide at cs.cmu.edu Wed Oct 10 15:37:53 2012 From: schneide at cs.cmu.edu (Jeff Schneider) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:37:53 -0400 Subject: [Research] Farewell gathering for Roman tomorrow evening Message-ID: <5075CE91.1090704@cs.cmu.edu> Roman's 2-years here have gone by too quickly! But the time has come and he will be departing next week. We will get together at Marios in Shadyside tomorrow at 7pm for some pizza and drinks to wish him good luck. Please let me know if you're coming out tomorrow so I will have an idea of how many to plan for. Jeff. ps. anyone who has a funny story about Roman is very welcome to share it tomorrow :-) From schneide at cs.cmu.edu Thu Oct 11 15:01:22 2012 From: schneide at cs.cmu.edu (Jeff Schneider) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:01:22 -0400 Subject: [Research] Location Change for Roman!! In-Reply-To: <5075CE91.1090704@cs.cmu.edu> References: <5075CE91.1090704@cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <50771782.2060609@cs.cmu.edu> It turns out that Marios upstairs will be closed for a private party. So we will move a couple blocks away to Stack'd Burgers and Beer. The address is 728 Copeland St. When you get there, go to the upstairs and we will have some tables. We're still starting at 7pm. If you have trouble finding it, you can call my cell 412 334 1367. Jeff. On 10/10/2012 03:37 PM, Jeff Schneider wrote: > > Roman's 2-years here have gone by too quickly! But the time has come and he > will be departing next week. We will get together at Marios in Shadyside > tomorrow at 7pm for some pizza and drinks to wish him good luck. > > Please let me know if you're coming out tomorrow so I will have an idea of how > many to plan for. > > Jeff. > > ps. anyone who has a funny story about Roman is very welcome to share it > tomorrow :-) > > _______________________________________________ > Research mailing list > Research at autonlab.org > https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/research >