Security and Privacy: Challenges and Directions

The rise of the Internet of Things is pushing computation to the edge. This introduces significant challenges that will affect every aspect of computing systems, from programmability, to reliability, to security and privacy. How do we build applications and systems that span across many heterogeneous devices? How can we ensure that computations run securely at the edge and preserve the data privacy? How do we manage resources among multiple distrusting parties? Do the new cyber-physical systems change our notion of trust and privacy expectations? What are the basic expectations of human behavior, machine responses that would be considered moral versus mores and anathemas of the emerging society? How can our policy frameworks adjust to incorporate these expectations?This day and half symposium seeks to identify technical challenges, promising research vectors at the intersection of edge computing, with focus on system security, privacy, programming languages, and public policy. The symposium will include device/system demonstrations for the participants to explore new platforms for development, deployment, and experimentation in their research.