CEAS 2004 Highlights and Schedule

Invited Speakers

Lawrence Lessig
Professor of Law and John A. Wilson Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Stanford University
Hal Varian
Class of 1944 Professor at the School of Information Management and Systems, the Haas School of Business, and the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Slides from Professor Varian's Talk


Panel
Payment for Anti-Spam: Time, Money, and Puzzles

If the fundamental reason for spam is that email is practically free, then the solution is to raise the price. There are many ways to charge people, including time, money, and puzzles. Computational approaches require the sender's computer to solve a time-consuming problem. Monetary approaches require the sender to pay actual cash. Puzzle approaches like HIPs (Human Interactive Proofs) and CAPTCHAs require the sender to prove a human is in the loop. This panel will include at least one advocate of each approach, and a devil's advocate against them all.

Moderator: Tom Berson, Anagram Laboratories
Panelists
Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research
Philip Raymond, CEO Vanquish slides
Richard Clayton, University of Cambridge
Brian Wilson, CTO of MailFrontier (producer of Matador)
Ambika Gadre, Director of Product Marketing, Information Services, Ironport System (producer of Bonded Sender.)

Friday, July 30

9:00:00 AM Introductory Remarks
9:10:00 AM Chung-Kwei: a Pattern-discovery-based System for the Automatic Identification of Unsolicited E-mail Messages (SPAM)
Isidore Rigoutsos, Tien Huynh
9:30:00 AM SpamBayes: Effective open-source, Bayesian based, email classification system.
T.A Meyer and B Whateley
9:50:00 AM Filtron: A Learning-Based Anti-Spam Filter
Eirinaios Michelakis, Ion Androutsopoulos, Georgios Paliouras, George Sakkis, and Panagiotis Stamatopoulos slides
10:10:00 AM Exploring Support Vector Machines and Random Forests for Spam Detection
Gordon Rios, Hongyuan Zha
10:30:00 AM Word Stemming to Enhance Spam Filtering
Shabbir Ahmed and Farzana Mithun
10:40:00 AM BREAK
11:10:00 AM Extracting social networks and contact information from email and the Web
Aron Culotta, Ron Bekkerman, Andrew McCallum
11:30:00 AM IP Addresses in Email Clients
Joshua Goodman
11:50:00 AM Beyond Identity: Addressing Problems that Persist in an Electronic Mail System with Reliable Sender Identification
Brett Watson slides
12:10:00 PM Multiple Email Addresses: A Socio-technical Investigation
Benjamin Gross
12:30:00 PM LUNCH
2:00:00 PM PANEL: Payment Schemes for Email
3:00:00 PM Anatomy of a Phishing Email
Christine E. Drake, Jonathan J. Oliver, and Eugene J. Koontz slides
3:20:00 PM Trends in Spam Products and Methods
Geoff Hulten, Anthony Penta, Gopalakrishnan Seshadrinathan, Manav Mishra slides
3:30:00 PM BREAK
4:10:00 PM Integration of Email and Task Lists
Simon Corston-Oliver, Eric Ringger, Michael Gamon, Richard Campbell
4:20:00 PM Learning to Extract Signature and Reply Lines from Email
Vitor Carvalho, William Cohen
4:40:00 PM Inferring Ongoing Activities of Workstation Users by Clustering Email
Yifen Huang, Dinesh Govindaraju, Tom Mitchell, Vitor Rocha de Carvalho, William Cohen
4:50:00 PM Introducing the Enron Corpus
Bryan Klimt, Yiming Yang
5:00:00 PM Invited Talk
Lawrence Lessig
6:00:00 PM Free Time
6:30:00 PM Reception, drinks served
7:00:00 PM BANQUET!

Saturday, July 31

9:00:00 AM Invited Talk: Who Signed up for the Do Not Call List
Hal Varian
9:45:00 AM European Union vs. Spam: A Legal Response
Nicola Lugaresi slides
10:05:00 AM No-Email-Collection Flag
Matthew Prince, Arthur M. Keller & Ben Dahl slides
10:25:00 AM Technological Responses to the Problem of Spam: Preserving Free Speech and Open Internet Values
Paula Bruening
10:35:00 AM BREAK
11:00:00 AM SpamGuru: An Enterprise Anti-Spam Filtering System
Richard Segal, Jason Crawford, Jeffrey Kephart, Barry Leiba slides
11:20:00 AM A Multifaceted Approach to Spam Reduction
Barry Leiba, Nathaniel Borenstein
11:40:00 AM Stopping Spam by Extrusion Detection
Richard Clayton slides
12:00:00 PM Resisting SPAM Delivery by TCP Damping
Kang Li, Calton Pu, Mustaque Ahamad slides
12:20:00 PM LUNCH
1:50:00 PM The Impact of Feature Selection on Signature-Driven Spam Detection
Aleksander Kolcz, Abdur Chowdhury, Joshua Alspector
2:10:00 PM Personalised, Collaborative Spam Filtering
Alan Gray, Mads Haahr
2:30:00 PM Reputation Network Analysis for Email Filtering
Jennifer Golbeck, James Hendler slides
2:50:00 PM On Attacking Statistical Spam Filters
Gregory L. Wittel and S. Felix Wu slides
3:10:00 PM BREAK
3:40:00 PM Internet Users and Spam: What the attitudes and behavior of Internet users can tell us about fighting spam
Deborah Fallows
3:50:00 PM Managing Customer Opt-Outs in a Complex Global Environment
Matt Leonard, Mayra Rodriguez, Richard Segal, Robert Shoop
4:10:00 PM Shall We Stop All Unsolicited Email Messages?
Rui Dai, Kang Li
4:30:00 PM BUSINESS MEETING
5:30:00 PM END