Sep 19, 2011
Our book, The Design of Sites, has been translated into Korean.
Interestingly, the book is much thicker than the English version
by about 1.5cm despite having roughly the same number of pages.
I hope they gave me a good translated Korean name too (unlike
the Chinese version, which assigned me a new Chinese name).
Sep 3, 2011
I have a post on BLOG@CACM entitled
Password Policies are Getting Out of Control. It's the most-read and most-commented blog post on CACM so far. It also made it onto
reddit, with 250+ comments. So, it clearly struck a nerve.
Sep 3, 2011
Our group had two papers accepted to Ubicomp 2011.
Aug 30, 2011
Teaching Designing Human-Centered Systems, our intro to HCI course
for non-majors. I'm trying several new ideas this year, including
parallel prototypes, more competitive analysis,
more war stories from industry, and
more quotes from Steve Jobs.
Aug 5, 2011
And the year is done for our current MHCI master's students!
What a fantastic group of students this year, please check out the
capstone
projects they did this year.
Aug 5, 2011
I survived the
Lower Youghiogheny river rapids, Class III and IV rapids. I even managed not to get knocked out of the raft, at one point being the only person left (though to be fair, my friend did dive out of the raft to avoid knocking me out too :)
July 20, 2011
Our group had one paper accepted to SOUPS 2011,
Smartening the Crowds: Computational Techniques for Improving Human Verification to Fight Phishing Scams. Yes,
smartening is a real word.
June 20, 2011
Our group had one paper accepted to Mobisys 2011,
Caché: Caching
Location-Enhanced Content to Improve User Privacy
May 26, 2011
Participated in a panel on the
State of the Mobile Net 2011, part of the Congressional Internet Caucus. Basically, I got to tell people about the current state of mobile privacy and the challenges involved. I even got interrupted midway by Senator Patrick Leahy (he's much taller in person than you might guess).
May 7, 2011
Our group had four papers accepted to CHI 2011.
March 1, 2011
Our group had one paper accepted to HotMobile 2011,
Undistracted Driving: A Mobile Phone that Doesn’t Distract
Feb 21, 2011
Gave a talk at the CyLab Seminar on Location Privacy for Mobile
Computing.
July 22, 2010
Why is Great Design so Hard? This is a blog entry I wrote up for Communications of the ACM.
July 22, 2010
Our group had four papers accepted to Ubicomp 2010.
July 22, 2010
Paper on applying machine learning to blacklists to improve phishing
accepted to
ESORICS 2010.
I think this work has the lowest false positives to date of any
published work using heuristics to detect phish, while having a
fairly good true positive rate.
May 21, 2010
Presented Teaching Johnny Not to Fall for Phish at the
ISSA CISO forum.
Talk: PPT
May 11, 2010
Presented
Statistical Analysis of Phished eMail Users, Intercepted by the APWG/CMU Phishing Education Landing Page at the
APWG Counter E-Crime Operations Summit. This work was also featured in Brian Kreb's' blog
krebsonsecurity.com.
Talk: PPT
Mar 18, 2010
I was a panelist for a University Lecture Series panel entitled
Hacking Comes of Age: Climategate, Cyber-Espionage and iWar.
Mar 10, 2010
I was a panelist for an RSA 2010 panel entitled
Social Networking - Your Personal and Business Information in the Wild.
Feb 18, 2010
I received a 2010
Sloan Research Foundation Fellowship.