Keynote Speech

National Science Foundation (NSF) has a long-standing interest in protecting, enhancing and evaluating information security, privacy and confidentiality in information systems.  The interest is broad including new architectures, algorithms, data collection and evaluation methods.  All these are in recognition of newly emerging environments and applications (e.g. pervasive computing, mobile, sensor and distributed databases, discovery and handling of future threats), newly emerging requirements and increasing public interest in this topic.  This talk discusses NSF's past and current funding profile and future funding opportunities for secure information systems research.

Dr. Le Gruenwald is a Program Director in the Information Integration and Informatics in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems at National Science Foundation. She is also the David W. Franke Professor and the Director of the Database Laboratory in the School of Computer Science at University of Oklahoma (OU). She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Southern Methodist University in 1990. Prior to joining OU, she was a Member of Technical Staff in the Database Management Group at the Advanced Switching Laboratory of NEC, America. Her major research interests include Mobile and Sensor Databases, Data Stream Management, Data Security and Privacy, Multimedia and Web Databases, Data Mining, and Autonomic Computing. She has published over one hundred articles in books, journals and conferences.