Summary of Activities 2006

Research, Scholarly, or Creative Activites
1. Publications
  - Optimal exercise of russian options in the binomial model, Robert W, Chen, Burton Rosenberg, Computational Finance and its Applications, WIT Press (2006) pp 171-181.
2. Exhibitions
  - Wikipedia entry on NTLM. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLM.
3. Other creative
  - On the first occurence of strings, Chen, Rosenberg and Zame, in progress
  - Financial Cryptography and Security, editor in chief, CRC Press. Under contract for completion May 2008.
  - Method and System for Data Security, US Provisional Patent 60/838,220. UM internal UM07-04.
  - Development of http://wiki.cs.miami.edu, pioneering the us of departmental wiki to suppliment or replace last century’s Home Page for the public departmental presentation.
  - Pioneer use of blog as course suppliment and create a learning community. See http://web.cs.miami.edu/blog/burt.
  - Creation of http://web.cs.miami.edu a network sandbox to enable teaching of Web Applications in a hacker-proof environment.
4. Funded research
  - Phaser, NSF DUE-0230612, 05/01/03 + 36 months. Co-Pi. $390,906.
  - Computer Science and Math for Scientists, NSF DUE-0630894, 01/01/07 + 54 months. Co-Pi. $495,640.
5. Grant proposals submitted
  - co-PI on NSF grant, BIO 2010: Integrating Biology and Computation into Undergraduate Science Courses. NYU is the lead institution to support a series of summer workshops for $360K
Editorial responsibitilies
Professional Activities
- Optimal exercise of russian options in the binomial model, Robert W, Chen, Burton Rosenberg, Computational Finance and its Applications, London. Published, see above.
- Split, scatter and throw, Financial Cryptography 06. Basis for patent UM07-04, see above.
- Member of board, and secretary, International Financial Cryptography Associtation.
- Appointed sponsorship chair for Financial Cryptography 07.
- NYU Network Summer, summer 2006. Biology 2010 workshop, with Mike Gaines and Ryk Meyers, both of University of Miami.
- Python for biologist. Curriculum development with Michael Gaines of Biology and Ryk Meyers of Biochemistry for introduction of math and computer science content into introductory biology curriculum. See wiki.cs.miami.edu/pages/burt/bioinfo.
- Phaser: MAA Minicourse, 01/05/2007. Supporting presenter.
- Presentation to UM POL599, US Intelligence and Foreign Policy, see http://wiki.cs.miami.edu/pages/home/burt/cryptotalk
Teaching
1. Spring 06
  - CSC 507: Introduction to Cryptography
  - CSC 609: Introduction to Cryptography
  - CSC 524: Networks and Computer Security.
  - CSC 401: Practicum
2. Fall 06
  - CSC 521: Computer Operating Systems
  - CSC 517: Algorithms
  - CSC 402: Practicum
3. Summer 06
Advising
1. Advising activities
  - undergraduate and freshman advising
2. Graduate student supervision
  - Andre Vieta, Ph.D Physics. Program committee member.
Service
1. Department, College, University committees
  - Educational and Informational Technologies Committee, Faculty Senate, finishing 2006.
  - Facilities and Planning subcommittee for Faculty Senate, 2006 onward
  - ITAC, 2006 onward.
  - Special Deans committee on the School of Arts and Sciences home page.
2. Administrative responsibilities
  - Departmental computer infrastructure, central servers and computer networking, planning and installation.
  - Incident response, hacker compromise of TPTP server, a project of Prof. Geoff Sutcliff. Analysis of compromise and presentation of remediation strategies.
  - Modified blog software to support security model required for Professor Milenkovic’s pioneering teaching blog, at http://web.cs.miami.edu/blog/vjm.
3. Community service
  - MIT Educational Councelor. Interviewing and advising of prespective MIT students.
  - Shake-A-Leg Miami. Disabled sailing, educational opportunities for underserved schools, and community outreach.
Honors and Awards
- Invention Recognition Program Award, for UM07-04, Method and System for Data Security, US Provisional Patent 60/838,220.
- Internal grant, travel award for Computational Finance 06.

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Summary of Activities 2006

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