Date: Oct 26, 2007
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: 256 Coates Hall
Lt Col Leemon Baird, Ph.D, Associate Professor and Director of Research
US Air Force Academy
Bio:
Lt Col Baird is an associate professor and the Director of Research in the
Department of Computer Science at the Air Force Academy. He is also a
researcher in the Academy Center for Information Security. He has a PhD in
Computer Science is from Carnegie Mellon University (1999), and a BS in
Computer Science is from the Air Force Academy (1989). His research
interests include computer security, jam-resistant communication, artificial
intelligence, and machine learning.
Abstract:
Lt Col Baird will give an overview of computer security research at the Air
Force Academy. In particular the recent breakthroughs in jam resistance
will be described. This is a new set of algorithms and codes that
constitute the first system ever designed that can do jam-resistant,
omnidirectional radio communication without any secret key shared between
the sender and receiver. This led to a new field of coding theory:
concurrent codes. The application of concurrent codes to information
retrieval will also be discussed, which is an ongoing collaboration between
the Academy and Don Kraft at LSU.
All are welcome to attend.
