BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260926T000638Z UID:13825B49-3321-47A5-86A8-0A3957F8B83E DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T203000 DESCRIPTION:Boston Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society and GBC/ACM\n\n7:00 PM\, Thursday\, 24 September 2026\n\nMIT Room 32-G449 (Kiva) and online v ia Zoom\n\nWhat Can Hardware Do for Computer Security?\n\nPlease register in advance for this seminar even if you plan to attend in person at\n\nhtt ps://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/7517867529475/WN_2nVQNyq4RQOq_V91f3T Okg\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containin g information about joining the webinar.\n\nIndicate on the registration f orm if you plan to attend in person. This will help us determine whether t he room is close to reaching capacity. We plan to serve light refreshments (probably pizza) before the talk starting at around 6:30 pm. Letting us k now you will come in person will help us determine how much pizza to order .\n\nWe may make some auxiliary material such as slides and access to the recording available after the seminar to people who have registered.\nAbst ract:\n\nHardware can help solve challenging security problems from secure key storage to real-time monitoring of attacks to shrinking the Trusted C omputing Base (TCB). Of course\, hardware vulnerabilities can also cause s oftware systems to fail. In this talk\, we focus on the synergies between hardware and cryptography\, and first describe recent research in using ha rdware acceleration to speed up cryptography and enable the design of more efficient cryptographic protocols. We explore how cryptography helps to s ecure hardware systems and whether new security definitions can help with the design of secure hardware.\n\nBio:\n\nSrini Devadas is the Webster Pro fessor of EECS at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, where he has been on the faculty since 1988. Devadas's current research interests are in computer architecture\, computer security\, and applied cryptography. I n 2021\, he received the IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice\, and the A CM SIGSAC Award for Outstanding Innovation for his work on secure hardware .\n\nHe received the ACM-IEEE Computer Society Eckert-Mauchly Award in 202 6 for his contributions to computer and digital systems architecture. http s://awards.acm.org/eckert-mauchly\n\nYou can see an overview of current pr ojects and courses at https://people.csail.mit.edu/devadas/\n\nYou can see a more extensive bio at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srini_Devadas\n\nDi rections to 32-G449 - MIT Stata Center\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA : Please use the main entrance to the Stata Center at 32 Vassar Street (th e entrance closest to Main street) as those doors will be unlocked. Upon e ntering\, proceed to the elevators which will be on the right after passin g a large set of stairs and a MITAC kiosk. Take the elevator to the 4th fl oor and turn right\, following the hall to an open area\; 32-G449 will be on the left. [Location of Stata on campus map](https://whereis.mit.edu/?go =32)\n\nThis joint meeting of the Boston Chapter of the IEEE Computer Soci ety and GBC/ACM will be hybrid (in person and online).\n\nUp-to-date infor mation about this and other talks is available online at http://ewh.ieee.o rg/r1/boston/computer/. You can sign up to receive updated status informat ion about this talk and informational emails about future talks at http:// mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieee-cs\, our self-administered mailing l ist.\n\nCo-sponsored by: gc/acm\n\nSpeaker(s): \, Srini Devadas\n\nRoom: 3 2-G449 (Kiva)\, Bldg: MIT building 32\, 32 Vssar St\, Cambridge\, MA\, Cam bridge MA\, Massachusetts\, United States\, 02139\, Virtual: https://even ts.vtools.ieee.org/m/573061 LOCATION:Room: 32-G449 (Kiva)\, Bldg: MIT building 32\, 32 Vssar St\, Cambr idge\, MA\, Cambridge MA\, Massachusetts\, United States\, 02139\, Virtua l: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/573061 ORGANIZER:p.mager@computer.org SEQUENCE:49 SUMMARY:What Can Hardware Do for Computer Security? URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/573061 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><blockquote>\n<h2>Boston Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society and GBC/ACM</h2>\n<h4>7:00 PM\, Thursday\, 24 September 2 026</h4>\n<p>MIT Room 32-G449 (Kiva) and online via Zoom</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</ p>\n<h4>What Can Hardware Do for Computer Security?</h4>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n <h4>Please register in advance for this seminar even if you plan to attend in person at</h4>\n<p class="p1">https://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register /7517867529475/WN_2nVQNyq4RQOq_V91f3TOkg</p>\n<p>After registering\, you w ill receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.</p>\n<p>Indicate on the registration form if you plan to attend i n person. This will help us determine whether the room is close to reachin g capacity. We plan to serve light refreshments (probably pizza) before th e talk starting at around 6:30 pm. Letting us know you will come in person will help us determine how much pizza to order.</p>\n<p>We may make some auxiliary material such as slides and access to the recording available af ter the seminar to people who have registered.</p>\nAbstract:\n<p>&nbsp\;< /p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Hardware can help solve challenging security probl ems from secure key storage to real-time monitoring of attacks to shrinkin g the Trusted Computing Base (TCB). Of course\, hardware vulnerabilities c an also cause software systems to fail. In this talk\, we focus on the syn ergies between hardware and cryptography\, and first describe recent resea rch in using hardware acceleration to speed up cryptography and enable the design of more efficient cryptographic protocols. We explore how cryptogr aphy helps to secure hardware systems and whether new security definitions can help with the design of secure hardware.</p>\n<p>Bio:</p>\n<p>&nbsp\; </p>\n<p>Srini Devadas is the Webster Professor of EECS at the Massachuset ts Institute of Technology\, where he has been on the faculty since 1988. Devadas's current research interests are in computer architecture\, comput er security\, and applied cryptography. In 2021\, he received the IEEE Cyb ersecurity Award for Practice\, and the ACM SIGSAC Award for Outstanding I nnovation for his work on secure hardware.</p>\n<p>He received the ACM-IEE E Computer Society Eckert-Mauchly Award in 2026 for his contributions to c omputer and digital systems architecture.&nbsp\;<a href="https://awards.ac m.org/eckert-mauchly">https://awards.acm.org/eckert-mauchly</a></p>\n<p>Yo u can see an overview of current projects and courses at&nbsp\;<a href="ht tps://people.csail.mit.edu/devadas/">https://people.csail.mit.edu/devadas/ </a></p>\n<p>You can see a more extensive bio at&nbsp\;<a href="https://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Srini_Devadas">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srini_Dev adas</a></p>\n<p>Directions to 32-G449 - MIT Stata Center\, 32 Vassar Stre et\, Cambridge\, MA: Please use the main entrance to the Stata Center at 3 2 Vassar Street (the entrance closest to Main street) as those doors will be unlocked. Upon entering\, proceed to the elevators which will be on the right after passing a large set of stairs and a MITAC kiosk. Take the ele vator to the 4th floor and turn right\, following the hall to an open area \; 32-G449 will be on the left.&nbsp\;<a href="https://whereis.mit.edu/?go =32">Location of Stata on campus map</a></p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p class="no rm10">This joint meeting of the Boston Chapter of the IEEE Computer Societ y and GBC/ACM will be hybrid (in person and online).</p>\n<p>Up-to-date in formation about this and other talks is available online at http://ewh.iee e.org/r1/boston/computer/. You can sign up to receive updated status infor mation about this talk and informational emails about future talks at http ://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieee-cs\, our self-administered mailin g list.</p>\n</blockquote> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR