[Design] CEAS 2006 -- Third Conference on Email and Anti-Spam

[Brian Kirsch]

Cool!

I have been following this conference for a while.

If I was in the Bay Area I would certainly attend.

Anyone else going?

If so I would love to get a report on it.

-Brian


Lisa Dusseault wrote:

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>> *From: *Dave Crocker <dcrocker at bbiw.net <mailto:dcrocker at bbiw.net>>
>> *Date: *July 14, 2006 10:34:27 AM GMT-04:00
>> *To: *Lisa Dusseault <lisa at osafoundation.org 
>> <mailto:lisa at osafoundation.org>>
>> *Subject: **Possibly for the OSAF community...*
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>> Lisa,
>>
>> Given its relevance to email and collaboration work and its presence 
>> in the SF
>> Bay area, perhaps you will agree to circulate the following to one or 
>> more of
>> the relevant OSAF mailing lists:
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>>                       FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
>>
>>           
>>
>>       July 27 and 28, 2006 (Thursday, Friday)
>>
>>                       Mountain View, California
>>     www.ceas.cc
>>
>>
>> The organizers of the Conference on Email and Anti-Spam invite you to
>> participate in its third annual event.  This forum brings together
>> academic and industrial researchers to present new work in all aspects
>> of email and messaging, including uses and abuses such as spam.
>>
>> Twenty-seven research presentations will cover topics including
>> game theory, social network analysis, spam and spam filter
>> analysis, a university spam course, forgotten email attachment
>> detection, and deployment experience.
>>
>> Invited speakers are:
>>
>>    *  Rob Thomas (Team Cymru)
>>       "The Underground Economy"
>>
>>       Rob Thomas is the CEO and a Research Fellow with Team Cymru. Rob
>>       has worked as a network engineer, kernel developer, and information
>>       security professional for numerous clients. He is an ISC Fellow, a
>>       former vice-chair of FIRST, has served as a NANOG Program Committee
>>       member, has lectured at universities such as Notre Dame and
>>       Northwestern, and is on the technical advisory boards of 
>> corporations
>>       such as UltraDNS.
>>
>>
>>    *  Hector Garcia-Molina & Zoltan Gyongyi (Stanford)
>>       "Web Spam: Current Techniques and Future Challenges"
>>
>>       Hector Garcia-Molina is the Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner 
>> Professor
>>       in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical 
>> Engineering at
>>       Stanford University. He received the 1999 ACM SIGMOD 
>> Innovations Award,
>>       is on the Technical Advisory Board of DoCoMo Labs USA, Yahoo Search
>>       and Marketplace, is a Venture Advisor for Diamondhead Ventures, 
>> and is
>>       a member of the Board of Directors of Oracle and Kintera.
>>
>>       Zoltan Gyongyi is a PhD student in the Department of Computer
>>       Science at Stanford University.  His research focuses on web link
>>       structure analysis and its application for web spam detection,
>>       including TrustRank. Since 2003, he has been collaborating with
>>       industry experts from AltaVista and Yahoo! Search.
>>
>> Attendee participation will include:
>>
>>    *  Group Discussion
>>
>>       "Considering What's Missing -- Building a Work List for the 
>> Email and
>>       Messaging Research Community"
>>
>>    *  Lightening Round
>>
>>       Three brief presentations, selected by attendees!
>>
>> To find:
>>
>>    *  Conference schedule
>>    *  Accepted papers
>>    *  Conference facility
>>    *  Hotel information
>>
>> please visit:
>>
>>    <http://www.ceas.cc>
>>
>> On-line Registration:
>>
>>    <http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=113411>
>>
>>    Until July 26:      Student      --  $175
>>                        Non-student  --  $350
>>    On-site:                         --  $400
>>
>> Hotel:
>>
>>    <http://www.ceas.cc/hotel>
>>
>>    Before June 26, if booked by phone:   $89
>>
>> General Conference Chair
>>    Gordon Cormack (University of Waterloo)
>>
>> Program Co-Chairs
>>    Alek Kolcz (AOL)
>>    Dave Crocker (Brandenburg InternetWorking)
>>    Ion Androutsopoulos, (Athens University of Economics and Business)
>>
>> Local Arrangements
>>    Thomas Lynam (Google)
>>
>> President
>>    Joshua Goodman (Microsoft Research)
>>
>> Questions?
>>
>>    Contact:  <mailto:information at ceas.cc>
>>              (received by all the chairs)
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>>   Dave Crocker
>>   Brandenburg InternetWorking
>>   bbiw.net
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