[Dailydave] Science of Security Award, last call

[dan at geer.org]

[forwarded sans headers]


Dear Science of Security Community,

The deadline for nominating a paper to the National Security Agency's 
Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition is Friday, March 
31, 2017. Nominations can be submitted at 
http://cps-vo.org/group/sos/papercompetition. Please find details about 
the competition below.

*ABOUT THE COMPETITION*

In order to encourage the development of the scientific foundations of 
cybersecurity, the National Security Agency (NSA) established The Annual 
Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition. NSA invites nominations 
of papers that show an outstanding contribution to cybersecurity 
science. A set of Distinguished Experts will review the nominations 
according to the criteria below. Awardees will be invited to NSA to 
receive the award and present the winning paper to an audience of 
cybersecurity experts.

*NOMINATIONS AND ELIGIBILITY*

Papers published in peer-reviewed journals, magazines, or technical 
conferences are eligible for nomination. The date of the publication 
must be between January 1st 2016 and December 31st 2016. Nominations 
should include, in 500 words or less, a nomination statement describing 
the scientific contribution of the paper and explaining why this paper 
merits the award. A strong nomination statement is desired and will be 
used as part of the criteria when evaluating paper submissions. 
Nominated papers must be available in English and PDF format. 
Nominations must be submitted via 
http://cps-vo.org/group/sos/papercompetition. The nominator may not be 
an author or co-author of the nominated paper. If a paper includes a 
reviewer as a co-author it may not be considered for an award. Papers 
may come from any field of cybersecurity research. (Please refer to the 
SoS-VO discussion forum What is Security Science? 
http://cps-vo.org/node/6041)

*EVALUATION*

A set of distinguished experts will review the submitted nominations and 
provide individual assessments to the NSA Research Directorate. The NSA 
Research Directorate will recommend awardees to the NSA Director of 
Research, whose decision will be final. Considerations in the evaluation 
of the nominated paper may include:

Scientific merit and significance of the work reported, the degree to 
which the paper exemplifies how to perform and report scientific 
research in cybersecurity.

Distinguished experts for the 5th annual competition:

Prof. L. Jean Camp, Indiana University
Dr. Robert Cunningham, Lincoln Laboratory
Dr. Whitfield Diffie, Cybersecurity Advisor
Dr. John Mclean, Naval Research Laboratory
Prof. David Wagner, University California At Berkeley
Dr. Dan Geer, In-q-tel
Prof. Angela Sasse, University College London
Prof. Stefan Savage, University Of California, San Diego
Prof. Paul Van Oorschot, University Of Carleton
Mr. Phil Venables, Goldman Sachs
Dr. Jeannette Wing, Microsoft Research

*TIMELINE*

Submission Period Begins: December 15, 2016
Submission Period for Entries Ends: March 31, 2017 11:59 PM, EST.
Evaluation Process for Entries Begins: April 1, 2017
Winners Notified: By September 15, 2017
Winners Announced: Fall 2017