CNF: TC: ACSAC 2009 Conference Support

一年一度的计算机安全应用会议(ACSAC)的赞助商应用计算机安全协会(ACSA)申请资金，以支持本科生和研究生参加将于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，是一项顶级的学术安全会议，平均每年约有200名高技能安全专业人员参加。ACSAC定期召集学术界、政府和商业计算机安全领域的顶尖人物，解决应用计算机安全中最紧迫的问题，并讨论计算机安全领域的开创性工作。除了我们的主旨演讲(“特邀散文家”和“杰出实践者”)外，ACSAC在2000年推出了“经典论文”系列，邀请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所学到的经验教训。这些论文在ACSAC网站上免费提供，让新一代学生熟悉过去关键的安全研究发展，并为本科生和研究生教学提供宝贵的资源。NSF的资助将为有价值的学生提供在会议上与知名人物见面和互动的机会，过去出席会议的名人包括惠特菲尔德·迪菲(Sun)、斯蒂芬妮·福雷斯特(Stephanie Forrest)(新墨西哥大学)、布莱恩·斯诺(Brian Snow)(美国国家安全局)、史蒂夫·利普纳(Steve Lipner)(微软)、吉恩·斯普蒙德(Gene Spdable)(普渡)、彼得·诺伊曼(Peter Neumann)(SRI)和史蒂夫·贝尔洛文(Steve Bellovin)(哥伦比亚大学)。有许多例子表明，在正式会议结束后，ACSAC的演讲者与与会者一起“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.