Multimedia: Concepts, Technical Challenges, and Implementation - Scheman
Room 167
Manu Malek, Lucent Technologies, Middletown, New Jersey, USA
Multimedia refers to the ability to integrate voice, graphics, text and
video seamlessly. It is a multibillion dollar/year business, and is growing
rapidly. The objective of this seminar is to: 1) provide an understanding
of the current and emerging multimedia technologies, 2) describe the technical
issues and current solutions, 3) review the strategies and industry trends
to implement it, and 4) identify the standards and state- of-the-art capabilities
and product offerings.
Low Power Design Methods - Scheman Room 262
Suresh Rajgopal, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California, USA; Sachin
S. Sapatnekar,
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
This tutorial session will wed theory and practice, and a strong emphasis
will be placed on low power design practices in industry, with a vision
of methods likely to be useful in the future. This tutorial focuses on the
optimization decisions that must be made in developing high-performance
circuits. Specifically, the following will be discussed: motivation, real-life
examples; sources of power dissipation; future trends; power estimation
methodologies; power reduction - system level methods; power reduction -
RTL and logic levels; power reduction - layout and circuit level methods
CAD and design methodology impact.
Introduction to Computer System Security and Technology - Scheman
Room 260
James Davis and Doug Jacobson, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
As we move into the mid 1990's, we are clearly increasing our dependence
on comput- ers and computer networks for access to information. Network
traffic on the Internet has shifted to an exponential growth rate, and it
will continue to accelerate as new operating systems and on-line services
add millions of users to the Internet. The Internet has been a carrier of
private correspondence for decades, and is now being used to carry financial
transactions and other types of sensitive information. The combination of
the easy accessibility of the Internet and the lack of agreed-upon security
techniques has made it difficult for parties to engage in secure transactions.
Further, as the sophistication of publicly available "hacker"
tools improves, it is becoming difficult to protect information located
on private networks connected to the Internet. This session provides a background
in computer security that will enable attendees to understand important
issues and terminology in computer security. Specific topics include: 1
- introduction (resources; types of security threats; threat assessment),
2 - cryptography (simple ciphers; RSA; DES; IDEA), 3 - Key-Based Protocols
(private and public keys systems; key management; Kerberos; X.509), and
4 - Information Models (military lattice & BLP; trusted systems; evaluation
of security mechanisms).
Current Technology in Computer System Security (Afternoon) - Scheman
Room 260
James Davis, Doug Jacobson, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
This session is focused on current solutions to computer security problems.
To be discussed will be many of the methods used to attack a networked computer,
along with countermeasures ranging from simple TCP wrappers to more complex
solutions, like authentication using X.509 or Kerberos.