Nahrstedt Wins IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award
TCIPG's Klara Nahrstedt has been named the winner of a prestigious IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award for 2012.
The Technical Achievement Award honors "outstanding and innovative contributions to the fields of computer and information science and engineering or computer technology" that are from the last 10 to 15 years and significantly promoted technical progress in the field. According to the citation for the award, Nahrstedt is being honored "for pioneering contributions to end-to-end quality of service and resource management in wired and wireless networks."
Nahrstedt has a long history of distinguished contributions to quality of service (QoS) routing. At TCIPG, she is looking at how competing QoS and security demands can both be answered in the context of critical cyber-physical systems, such as the power grid.
"Many of these cyber-physical systems have been quite isolated, and operated under the assumption of getting real-time, very fast information to their control centers," she explains. "Introduction of the Internet and other computing resources has been making these systems less isolated. The interesting aspect is that as the barriers were removed, more attacks started to happen. But the basic requirements in terms of quality of service have stayed. So the interesting thing is, how can security fit in and not violate the real-time requirements?"
Read more about Nahrstedt and her QoS research that contributed to this award in the original ITI news article.
Source: Jenny Applequist, Information Trust Institute