GSI news

A research agenda for Disinformation: How to make progress when computer science is not enough

Disinformation is a quintessential socio-technical challenge – it is driven fundamentally by people and amplified significantly by technology. As such, technological solutions alone will not be sufficient in addressing this key national security challenge – technical advancements in identifying and mitigating the spread of disinformation must be tightly coupled with social interventions in the areas of education, training, and ethics.

In this talk, Nadya Bliss discusses what an interdisciplinary research agenda for tackling the challenge of disinformation could look like, along with the benefits and challenges of truly interdisciplinary research. Bliss also provided examples of current research that bring experts from different disciplines together to develop systemic responses to the problem. Click link for Slide Deck.

Events

Expressive Machinery: Building Co-Creative Systems for Humans and AI

November 4, 2021,

Dr. Brian Magerko, Professor of Digital Media, Director of Graduate Studies in Digital Media, & head of the Expressive Machinery Lab at Georgia Tech, will discuss building interactive experiences that augment human creativity and help us better understand human/computer collaborative creative interactions.

Human-Collective Teams: Algorithms, Transparency & Resilience

April 30, 2021,

Dr. Julie A. Adams, Professor and Associate Director of the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute at Oregon State University, will discuss the impact of algorithms, transparency, and resilience on human teaming with biologically-inspired robotic collectives.

Can computing combat climate change?

ASU expert Nadya Bliss highlights role of computing research in addressing climate change-induced challenges.

Cybersecurity

Addressing software bugs

ASU tackles the problem of fixing software vulnerabilities through micropatching.

Computing Research for the Climate Crisis

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has released a new whitepaper on Computing Research for the Climate Crisis, coauthored by Nadya Bliss (Arizona State University), Elizabeth Bradley (University of Colorado Boulder), and Claire Monteleoni (University of Colorado Boulder), to highlight the role of computing research in addressing climate change-induced challenges. Six key areas of impact in which these challenges will arise—energy, environmental justice, transportation, infrastructure, agriculture, and environmental monitoring & forecasting—are outlined, and then specific ways in which computing research can help address them are identified.

Cybersecurity competition challenges next generation of security experts

As the tide of cyberattacks continue to rise, so does the need for digital defenders who understand how their adversaries think. At a competition organized by the Global Security Initiative, aspiring and professional cybersecurity experts find their glory through real-world hacking challenges.

Equipping the next generation of cybersecurity professionals

The cybersecurity workforce gap continues to grow, with hundreds of thousands of jobs left vacant. What can we do?

Cybersecurity

How will we protect American infrastructure from cyberattacks?

Researchers at Arizona State University are finding policy and technology solutions to protect our growing infrastructure, from incentivizing cybersecurity and strategizing international influences to creating smaller software patches and empowering software systems to protect themselves.