Atul Prakash
Professor
Research Interests:
groupware systems, security, middleware, adaptibility in distributed systems, software engineering.
Teaching:
Fall 2007:
EECS 588: Computer and Network Security
Winter 2008: Working on the design of courses for a new concentration,
Informatics
, in LS&A.(the concentration is currently pending approval).
Fall 2008:
EECS 182: Building Information Environments (new course)
Current and Recent Projects:
WhereAbouts Project
: Design of location-aware pervasive systems
Also see
TalkingPoint Project
on using RFID-based orientation systems for assisting people with blindness:
Virtual partitioning within operating systems to enhance security. See our work on
SVFS and virtual RPC
to protect file systems.
CPOL: High-throughput privacy/security policy evaluation infrastructure.
[CPOL CCS 2005 paper]
[download software from http://cpol.sourceforge.net]
Web Tap Project on detecting covert web traffic [
ACM CCS 04 paper]
DistView Collaboratory toolkit
Antigone: A Framework for Security Policy Management in group multicast systems
DACIA: A mobile component framework for building adaptive distributed applications
My two page bio sketch (not necessarily current)