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IP: Workshop on the Management of Digital IP

From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:15:08 -0400


         DIMACS  Workshop on the Management of Digital IP

           April 17-18, 2000, Rutgers, New Jersey, USA

                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Critical to the development of e-commerce is the management of digital
intellectual property (IP).  Technology has challenged the status quo of
IP management in many ways.  Widespread use of personal computers and
Internet communication creates vast opportunities for producers, distributors,
and consumers of digital works of all forms, but it also threatens to render
copying and modification of these works completely uncontrollable.  DIMACS
will sponsor a two-day series of technical talks and "position statements"
on the design, development, and deployment of IP-management technology that
strikes the right balance between the need to control copying and
modification
and the desire to foster innovative uses of digital works that have been
enabled by computing and communication advances.

Speakers are encouraged to address all technical, legal, and business aspects
of digital IP management.  Companies offering relevant products and services
are encouraged to participate and to submit abstracts or papers outlining
their approach.

Topics appropriate for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

   * Intellectual property protection.
   * Anti piracy techniques.
   * Legal issues in the protection of digital rights.
   * New business models for managing digital rights.
   * Passive content protection, e.g. watermarking, tracing traitors.
   * Active content protection, e.g. software tamper resistance.
   * Hardware solutions to content protection.


WORKSHOP URL:   http://crypto.stanford.edu/DIMACS/


                       INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Authors are strongly encouraged to send their submission electronically.
Authors unable to submit electronically are invited to send a cover letter
and 4 copies of a submission (double-sided copies preferred) to the
postal address below. Submissions must be received on or before
January 17, 2000 (or postmarked by January 5, 2000, and sent via airmail
or courier). The cover letter should contain the submission's title and
the names and affiliations of the authors and should identify the contact
author including e-mail and postal addresses.

Authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract or a full-length
paper or position statement.

(1) Abstract submissions should contain a title, list of authors, and
   an abstract describing the proposed talk.  The abstract should
   indicate whether the authors intend to submit a full-length paper
   in case the abstract is accepted.

(2) Full-length submissions should begin with a title, list of authors, and
   a short abstract.  The introduction should summarize the
   contributions of the work at a level appropriate for a
   non-specialist reader. The submission should be at most 12 pages
   excluding the bibliography and clearly marked appendices,
   using at least 11-point font and reasonable margins. The organizers do
   not guarantee that they will read appendices; so submissions should be
   intelligible without them.

Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by
February 14, 2000.


                         CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

We will decide whether to publish a proceedings for the workshop based on
the number of full-length submissions.  If the number and quality of
full-length submissions are sufficient, proceedings will be published
by the American Mathematical Society as a volume in the DIMACS series.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
(1) Paul Kocher, Cryptography Research.
(2) Stuart Haber, InterTrust.
(3) Narayanan Shivakumar, Univ. Washington
(4) Jon Callas, Kroll-O'Gara

DATES:
      SUBMISSION: January 17, 2000
      ACCEPTANCE: February 14, 2000
      Pre-PROCEEDINGS VERSION: March 24, 2000

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
      Dan Boneh, Stanford University, USA
      Joan Feigenbaum, AT&T Labs -- Research
      Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Microsoft Research

ADDRESS FOR ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS:
      dabo () cs stanford edu

ADDRESS FOR NON-ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS:
      Dan Boneh, DIMACS workshop,
      Gates 475,
      Stanford, CA, 94304-9045
      U.S.A
      Phone: (1) 650-725-3897    Fax:   (1) 650-725-4671
      E-mail: dabo () cs stanford edu

STIPENDS: A limited number of stipends are available to those unable
to obtain funding to attend the workshop.  Students giving talks
at the workshop are encouraged to apply if such assistance is
needed. Requests for stipends should be addressed to Joan Feigenbaum
at jf () research att com or 973 360-8442.
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