CNF: TC: ACSAC 2009 Conference Support

应用计算机安全协会，公司（ACSA），年度计算机安全应用会议（ACSAC）的赞助者，要求资助本科生和研究生出席将于2009年12月7日至11日举行的第25届ACSAC。ACSAC会议目前正在庆祝其成立25周年，是一个顶级的学术安全会议，平均每年约有200名高技能的安全专业人士参加。ACSAC定期汇集学术、政府和商业计算机安全领域的顶尖人才，共同解决应用计算机安全领域最紧迫的问题，并讨论计算机安全领域的开创性工作。除了我们的主题演讲（“特邀散文家”和“杰出实践者”），在2000年，ACSAC推出了“经典论文”系列，其中邀请了两到三位计算机安全领域开创性论文的作者更新这些论文并介绍经验教训。这些论文在ACSAC网站上免费提供，使新一代学生熟悉过去的主要安全研究进展，并为本科生和研究生教学提供宝贵的资源。美国国家科学基金会的资助将为有价值的学生提供在会议上与知名人士见面并互动的机会，过去的与会者包括惠特菲尔德·迪菲（Sun）、斯蒂芬妮·福雷斯特（新墨西哥大学）、布莱恩·斯诺（美国国家安全局）、史蒂夫·利普纳（微软）、吉恩·斯帕福德（普渡大学）、彼得·诺伊曼（SRI）和史蒂夫·贝洛文（哥伦比亚大学）等名人。有很多例子表明，在正式会议结束后，ACSAC的演讲者被看到与与会者“一起上课”。

Applied Computer Security Associates, Inc. (ACSA), the sponsor of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) requested funding to support undergraduate and graduate students attendance at the 25th ACSAC, to be held December 7-11 2009.The ACSAC conference, currently celebrating its 25th anniversary, is a top-tier academic security conference which averages about 200 highly skilled security professional attendees per year. ACSAC regularly brings together the foremost minds in academic, governmental and commercial computer security to both address the most pressing problems in applied computer security, as well discuss seminal works in Computer Security. Besides our keynotes (the "Invited Essayist" and "Distinguished Practitioner"), in 2000, ACSAC introduced the "Classic Papers" series, in which two or three authors of seminal papers in computer security are invited to update those papers and present lessons learned. These papers, available free on the ACSAC web site, familiarize a new generation of students with key security research developments of the past, and provide a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate instruction.NSF funding will provide worthy students with an opportunity to meet and interact with notable figures at the conference, whose past attendees have included luminaries such as Whitfield Diffie (Sun), Stephanie Forrest (U of New Mexico), Brian Snow (NSA), Steve Lipner (Microsoft), Gene Spafford (Purdue), Peter Neumann (SRI), and Steve Bellovin (Columbia). There have been many examples where speakers at ACSAC have been seen "holding class" with attendees after the formal session has ended.