with partial support by The Office of Naval Research

Organizers:

Michael Barnsley
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
University of Melbourne
mbarnsley@aol.com

George Cybenko
Thayer School of Engineering
Dartmouth College
george.cybenko@dartmouth.edu

David Du
Department of Computer Science
University of Minnesota
du@cs.umn.edu

IMA Public Lecture: Bruce Schneier (Counterpane Internet Security)
Natural Laws of Digital Content: the Folly of Copy Protection on the Internet
 Slides (pdf)   Audio  MP3  24k (15.5mb)  64k (41mb)  128k (82mb)
Monday, February 12, 2001, 7:00 pm
2650 Moos Tower

The Internet offers unprecedented capabilities as a distribution channel for digital assets. Digital asset management over the internet today requires technologies for:

        - asserting intellectual property rights;
        - protecting intellectual property;
        - managing the intellectual property value chain;
        - efficient storage and retrieval of digital assets;
        - verifying the source of the assets (authentication);
        - secure distribution of digital assets to end users;
        - effective distribution of digital assets to end users.

The goals of this workshop are to formulate and begin to solve these and related challenges. The workshop will bring together, in an intense mathematical environment, mathematical scientists, engineers and computer scientists, including software architects, who are involved theoretically or practically with designing and building digital asset management systems.

In more detail, the challenges are:

Asserting intellectual property rights - Because digital assets are easy to copy and redistribute, ownership information must be embedded into content in a way that can tolerate tampering, editing and other forms of modification.  Digital watermarking of audio, images and video is a technology that addresses these problems.

Protecting intellectual property - Techniques for efficient encryption of digital content is one technique for ensuring that assets are available to the appropriate end users.   Many advanced mathematical methods are using to encrypt digital assets.

Managing the intellectual property value chain - Authoring and distributing digital content, such as video and audio, are only two stages in the value chain. Rights negotiations are a time consuming and complex part of digital asset management.  Software agents can be used to implement bargaining strategies and mathematical theory is currently being developed to automate bidding.

Efficient storage and retrieval of digital assets - Digital assets must be compressed, indexed, retrieved and uncompressed efficiently.  These are often conflicting goals and new mathematical ideas are needed to index and retrieve compressed content. Efficient translation between formats is an important issue.

Verifying the source of the assets (authentication) -  Digital signatures, public key encryption and digital steganography can be used to authenticate the origin of digital content.

Secure distribution of digital assets to end users - Digital assets must be securely delivered to end users, requiring session oriented crypographic techniques and session keys for efficient encoding and decoding.

Efficient distribution of digital assets to end users - The owners of digital assets are typically not the owners or operators of the networks over which the content is distributed.  In fact, the internet is a highly decentralized, international telecommunications infrastructure that is increasingly being targeted by criminals, hackers and terrorists. Mathematical models for distributed communication, management, monitoring and control of large networks will be discussed.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12 All talks are in Lind Hall 409 unless otherwise noted.
8:30 am	Coffee and Registration	Lind Hall 400
9:10 am	Willard Miller, Fred Dulles	Welcome and Introduction
9:30 am	George Cybenko Dartmouth College	Workshop Introduction and Plans
10:00 am	Hal R. Varian University of California-Berkeley	Buying, Renting, and Sharing Information Goods Slides (pdf)
11:00 am	Break	Lind Hall 400
11:30 am-12:30 pm	Sharon Flank eMotion, Inc.	Metadata Issues Slides   pdf    html
2:00 pm	James P. Hughes Storage Technology Corporation	The Secure Distribution of Information in a Corporate Environment Slides  (pdf)
3:00 pm	Break	Lind Hall 400
3:30-4:30 pm	C. Lee Giles The Pennsylvania State University	Web Search: The Role for Niche Search Engines
4:30 pm	Discussion and wrapup
5:00-6:30 pm	Reception for Public Lecture	400 Lind Hall
7:00 pm 7:05 pm	Paul Garrett University of Minnesota Public Lecture: Bruce Schneier Counterpane Internet Security 2650 Moos Tower	Introduction of Bruce Schneier Natural Laws of Digital Content: the Folly of Copy Protection on the Internet Slides (pdf)   Audio MP3  24k (15.5mb)  64k (41mb)  128k (82mb)
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 All talks are in Lind Hall 409 unless otherwise noted.
8:45 am	Coffee	Lind Hall 400
9:00 am	Edward J. Delp Purdue University	Multimedia Security: Is there Hope in Securing our "Digital Future?" Slides (pdf)
10:00 am	Avni Rambhia e-Vue Inc.	Intellectual Property Management and Protection and MPEG-4 Slides  pdf    html
11:00 am	Break	Lind Hall 400
11:30 am-12:30 pm	Lyman Hurd Iterated Systems, Inc.	Protecting Property: Algorithms to Solutions Slides   pdf    html
3:00 pm	Gerhard O. Michler Universität Gesamthochschule Essen	A Prototype of a Combined Digital and Retrodigitized Searchable Mathematical Journal Talk   pdf    postscript
4:00 pm	Discussion and wrapup
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 All talks are in Lind Hall 409 unless otherwise noted.
8:45am	Coffee	Lind Hall 400
9:00 am	Edward J. Delp Purdue University	Tutorial: An Overview of Cryptography Slides  pdf    html
10:00 am	George Cybenko Dartmouth College	Monitoring the Web: New Metrics and Measurements Slides pdf   html
11:00 am	Break	Lind Hall 400
11:30 am-12:30 pm	H. Joel Trussell North Carolina State University	Color Fidelity in Multimedia Slides pdf    html
2:00 pm	Michiel van der Veen Philips Research Laboratories	Secure Delivery of Entertainment Content
3:00 pm	Break	Lind Hall 400
3:30 pm	Florian Pestoni IBM Almaden Research Center	Content Protection for Recordable Media Slides   pdf    html
4:30 pm	Discussion and wrapup
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15 All talks are in Lind Hall 409 unless otherwise noted.
8:45 am	Coffee	Lind Hall 400
9:00 am	Dhiraj Kacker Shutterfly	Watermarking Printed Images Slides   pdf    html
10:00 am	Break	Lind Hall 400
10:30-11:30 am	Richard E. Smith Secure Computer Corporation	Modeling the Intellectual Property Value Chain Based on Computer Security Incidents
12:00-1:00 pm	Michael Barnsley University of Melbourne	Constructing Dynamical System Representations for Stationary (Discrete Alphabet) Stochastic Processes, Lossless Fractal Compression and the Burrows-Wheeler Transform
1:30 pm	Ahmed Tewfik University of Minnesota	Music In the Early Part of the 21st Century
2:30--3:30 pm	Francisco Javier Thayer MITRE Corporation	Graphical, Algebraic and Probabilistic Models for Protocols Slides    pdf   postscript
4:30 pm	Discussion and wrapup
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 All talks are in Lind Hall 409 unless otherwise noted.
8:45 am	Coffee	Lind Hall 400
9:00 am	Michael Barnsley University of Melbourne	Separation of Image Science, Subjectivity and Mathematics in the Storage, Retrieval and Indexing of Digital Real World Images
10:00 am	Break	Vincent Hall 502
11:10 am	David Du University of Minnesota	Asset Management Aspects of End-to-End Video Streaming over the Internet
12:10 pm	Discussion and wrapup

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS
(in addition to postdocs and long term participants)

as of 2/15/2001

Name	Department	Affiliation
Michael Barnsley	Mathematics & Statistics	University of Melbourne
Sankar Basu		IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
John Baxter	Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Jamylle Carter		Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
George Cybenko	Thayer Engineering	Dartmouth College
Edward Delp	Electrical Engineering	Purdue University
David Du	Computer Science	University of Minnesota
Fred Dulles		Institute for Mathematics & its Applications
Sharon Flank		eMotion, Inc.
Paul Garrett	Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Nathan Georgitis		Minnesota Public Radio
C. Lee Giles	Information Sciences & Technology	The Pennsylvania State University
Bin Han		Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
James P. Hughes		Storage Technology Corporation
Lyman Hurd	MediaBin, Inc.
Dhiraj Kacker		Shutterfly
Mostafa Kaveh	Electrical & Computer Engineering	University of Minnesota
Brian Loe		Secure Computing
Gerhard Michler	Institut für Experimentelle Mathematik	Universität Essen
Willard Miller		Institute for Mathematics & its Applications
Peter Olver	Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Florian Pestoni		IBM Almaden Research Center
Jianliang Qian		Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
Avni Rambhia	Project Manager, Image & DRM	e-Vue, Inc.
Bruce Schneier		Counterpane Internet Security, Inc.
Zafar Singhera	Research & Development	Sapient Corporation
Richard Smith	Advanced Technology Division	Secure Computing Corporation
Ahmed Tewfik	Electrical Engineering	University of Minnesota
Francisco Javier Thayer		MITRE Corporation
Joel Trussell	Electrical and Computer Engineering	North Carolina State University
Michiel Van Der Veen		Philips Research Laboratories
Hal Varian	Information Management & Systems	University of California Berkeley

 

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2000-2001 Program: Mathematics in Multimedia

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