Mobile, Embedded, & Wireless Security

14-703: INI MSIT Graduate Seminar



Course Description:
This is a student-led seminar course in which students select, investigate, discuss, debate and solve multi-disciplinary problems in information technology. Students are expected to do weekly reading assignments and each week different students (or student groups) propose a topic of interest to them and prepare a presentation for the course. Faculty and experts from local companies will also serve as guest lecturers on specific topics.

Prerequisites:
Graduate standing and instructor's permission.

Topics presented:
  • Digital Rights Management
  • Wireless Mesh Networks
  • Comparative Study of Mobile Browsers
  • Practical Future for Augmented Reality Applications
  • Trends in Interactive Television
  • Location-Based Social Networking
  • Mobile Fingerprint in Retail
  • Cloud Computing
  • Case Studies in Mobile Security
  • Honeypots
  • Human-Verifiable Authentication
  • Green IT
  • Open Source Software
  • Searching in Semantic Web
  • Smart Grid
  • Viruses and Detection
  • Network Neutrality
  • Peer-to-Peer Networking
  • Wireless location tracking approaches
  • Mobile app marketing
  • Green IT
  • Fuzzing
  • Future of cloud computing
  • Brain-computer interfaces
  • NoSQL and cloud databases
  • Impact of electric vehicles
  • Consumerization of IT
  • Internet of things
  • Exotic web vulnerabilities
  • The semantic web
  • The rise and need of business intelligence
  • OpenID and Oauth
  • Ideas for startups
  • Electronic discovery
  • Javascript and web security
  • Domain specific languages
  • Semantic Web
  • Mobile Accessibility
  • Hadoop
  • Smart TV
  • Gamification
  • Botnets
  • Internet of Things
  • Fuzzing RESTful APIs
  • Disaster Survivable IT
  • Indoor Localization
  • War of Mobile Platforms
  • Start-up Evaluations
  • Openflow
  • Security Bugs
  • Parallel Computing
  • Enterprise Data Science
  • User Experience
  • Software Metrics
  • Game Marketing
  • Transactional Platform Architecture
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Connected Cars
  • Internet of Things
  • Technology & Emergency Management
  • Mobile Sensing
  • Interactive Spaces
  • Secure Multi-Party Computation
  • Hybrid Clouds for Mobile Privacy
  • Web & Mobile Development
  • Trust Based Data Service Recommentation
  • Influence in Social Networks
  • Android Security
  • Wearable Computing
  • SSL Attacks
  • Future of Mobile
  • Drones
  • Future of Gesture Recognition
  • Importance of User Experience
  • Human-Centered Design
  • The Rise of Open Source