Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security

Research/Publications

Pitt Cyber Research and Publications

Elections in the Time of COVID-19: An Action Plan for Pennslyvania's General Election
May 2020 | Christopher Deluzio, Policy Director, Pitt Cyber and Beth Schwanke, Executive Director, Pitt Cyber
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Ensuring Safe Elections: Federal Funding Needs for State and Local Governments During the Pandemic
April 2020 | Christopher Deluzio, Policy Director, Pitt Cyber; David Levine, Elections Integrity Fellow, Alliance for Securing Democracy; Elizabeth Howard, Counsel, the Brennan Center for Justice; Derek Tisler, Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice; Paul Rosenzweig, Resident Senior Fellow, the R Street Institute
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Government, Law, Cybersecurity, Security, Policy, Elections
A Framework for Election Vendor Oversight
November 2019 | Christopher Deluzio, Policy Director, Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security; Lawrence Norden, Director of Election Reform Program, Brennan Center for Justice; Gowri Ramachandran, Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice
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Government, Law, Cybersecurity, Cyberwarfare, Security, Policy, Elections
Pennsylvania Counties' New Voting Systems: An Analysis
August 2019 | Christopher R. Deluzio, Pitt Cyber and Kevin Skoglund, Citizens for Better Elections
Pitt Cyber
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Government, Election Security, Voting, Cybersecurity, Law, Policy, Elections
Defending Elections: Federal Funding Needs for State Election Security
July 2019 | Christopher R. Deluzio, Policy Director, University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security; Liz Howard, Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice; Paul Rosenzweig, Senior Fellow, R Street Institute; David Salvo, Deputy Director, Alliance for Securing Democracy; Rachael Dean Wilson, Head of External Affairs, Alliance for Securing Democracy
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Government, Law, Cybersecurity, Cyberwarfare, Security, Policy, Elections
The Blue Ribbon Commission on Pennsylvania's Election Security Study & Recommendations
January 2019 | The Blue Ribbon Commission on Pennsylvania’s Election Security
Pitt Cyber
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Government, Law, Cybersecurity, Cyberwarfare, Security, Policy, Elections
The Blue Ribbon Commission on Pennsylvania’s Election Security – Interim Recommendations on Voting Systems
September 2018 | The Blue Ribbon Commission on Pennsylvania’s Election Security
University of Pittsburgh News Services
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Government, Law, Cybersecurity, Cyberwarfare, Security, Policy, Elections
Promoting Security in Wireless Technology
June 2017 | Kiersten Todt
Testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
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Cybersecurity

Selected Affiliate Scholar Research and Publications

Human Rights are (Increasingly) Plural: Learning the Changing Taxonomy of Human Rights from Large-scale Text Reveals Information Effects
June 2020 | Colaresi, Michael; Greene, Kevin; Park, Baekkwan
Cambridge University Press
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How Our Misunderstanding of the Digital and Computing Revolutions Puts Democracy at Risk (and What to Do about It)
May 2020 | Colaresi, Michael
Wiley Online Library
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Role of Moderators on Engagement of Adolescents With Depression or Anxiety in a Social Media Intervention: Content Analysis of Web-Based Interactions
September 2019 | Windler, Carolyn, BA; Clair, Maeve, BSc; Long, Cassandra, MSW; Boyle, Leah, BSc; Ana Radovic, MD, MSc
JMIR Publications
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Deploying Intrusion-Tolerant SCADA for the Power Grid
June 2019 | Amy Babay, John Schultz, Thomas Tantillo, Samuel Beckley, Eamon Jordan, Kevin Ruddell, Kevin Jordan, Yair Amir
IEEE
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The Twilight of Automation
February 2019 | Mario Khreiche
Fast Capitalism
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Fucking With the Magic
January 2019 | Michael J. Madison
Technology Law Jotwell
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The Cinderella Complex: Word Embeddings Reveal Gender Stereotypes in Movies and Books
November 2018 | H. Xu, Z. Zhang, L. Wu, C.J. Wang
arXiv | Cornell Library
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biased narrative, media, information, ideology
The Islamic State in Britain: Radicalization and Resilience in an Activist Network
October 2018 | Michael Kenney
Cambridge University Press
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Rethinking Secrecy in Cyberspace: The Politics of Voluntary Attribution
September 2018 | Michael Poznansky, Evan Perkoski
Journal of Global Security Studies
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Cyberwarfare, Russia, Law, Policy, Security, Cybersecurity
Designing Today’s Legal Education for Tomorrow’s Lawyers: The Role of Legal Design, Technology and Innovation
September 2018 | Stephanie Dangel, Margaret Hagan, James Bryan Williams
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Social Media and Morality: Losing Our Self Control?
June 2018 | Lisa S. Nelson
Cambridge University Press
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Privacy, Social Media
Network-Attack-Resilient Intrusion-Tolerant SCADA for the Power Grid
June 2018 | Amy Babay, Thomas Tantillo, Trevor Aron, Marco Platania, Yair Amir
IEEE
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Transforming the Future of Health Together: The Learning Health Systems Consensus Action Plan
March 2018 | Joshua C. Rubin, Jonathan C. Silverstein, Charles P. Friedman, Rebecca D. Kush, W. Holt Anderson, Allen S. Lichter, Darin J. Humphreys, Jeffrey Brown, Laura Crawford, James M. Walker, Richard L. Tannen, Kate Berry, Marianne Hamilton Lopez, Robert M. Kolodner, Janet M. Marchibroda, Frank W. Rockhold
Learning Health Systems
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Medicine and Public Health
Cybermanufacturing—Recent Technologies, Promising Paradigms, and Future Challenges in Advances in Manufacturing and Processing of Materials and Structures
March 2018 | Mostafa Bedewy, Mai Abdelhakim, and Alex K. Jones
CRC Press
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Cybersecurity, IoT, Cyber-Physical Systems
Libraries, and Partnerships: A Critical Examination of Labor, Networks, and Community
March 2018 | Introduction: Kate Joranson and Robin Kear
Chandos Publishing
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Art and Architectural History and the Performative, Mindful Practice of the Digital Humanities
February 2018 | Alison Langmead
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
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Digital Media, Humanities
Microgrids and Resilience: Using a Systems Approach to Achieve Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Goals
December 2017 | Katrina M. Kelly-Pitou, Gregory Reed, Anais Ostroski, Brandon Contino, Brandon Grainger, and Alexis Kwasinski
The Electricity Journal
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Energy
Utilizing Vector Space Models for Identifying Legal Factors from Text
October 2017 | Mohammad H. Falakmasir and Kevin D. Ashley
Jurix
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Law
Governing Medical Knowledge Commons
September 2017 | Katherine J. Strandburg, Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison, editors
Cambridge University Press
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Medicine and Public Health, Law
Zenith: Utility-Aware Resource Allocation for Edge Computing
September 2017 | Jinlai Xu, Balaji Palanisamy, Heiko Ludwig, and Qingyang Wang
Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 1st International Conference on Edge Computing, EDGE 2017
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Networking, IoT, Supercomputing
Coding Literacy: How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing
July 2017 | Annette Vee
The MIT Press
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Education, Coding
Artificial Intelligence and Legal Analytics: New Tools for Law Practice in the Digital Age
June 2017 | Kevin Ashley
Cambridge University Press
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AI, Law
Risk and decision analysis of dynamic spectrum access
June 2017 | Liu Cuia, Martin B.H. Weiss, Benoit Morel, David Tipper
Telecommunications Policy
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Policy, Government, Networking
SeSAMe: Software defined smart home alert management system for smart communities
June 2017 | Rohit Abhishek, Shuai Zhao, David Tipper, Deep Medhi
IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks
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Networking, Security, IoT
Task-driven programming pedagogy in the digital humanities
April 2017 | David J. Birnbaum and Alison Langmead
New Directions for Computing Education: Embedding Computing Across Disciplines
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Digital Media, Coding
Do the Robot: Lessons from Machine Learning to Improve Conflict Forecasting
February 2017 | Michael Colaresi and Zuhaib Mahmood
Journal of Peace Research
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AI, Policy
Data Credence in IoR: Vision and Challenges
January 2017 | Vladimir Zadorozhny, Prashant Krishnamurthy, Mai Abdelhakim, Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Jiawei Xu
Open Journal of Internet Of Things (OJIOT)
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IoT
The Lawfare Podcast: Deterring Russian Cyber Intrusions
December 2016 | Evan Perkoski and Michael Poznansky
Lawfare
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Russia, Cybersecurity
An Eye for an Eye: Deterring Russian Cyber Intrusions
December 2016 | Evan Perkoski and Michael Poznansky
War on the Rocks
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Russia, Cybersecurity
The Road to Resilience - Managing Cyber Risks
September 2016 | Katrina M. Kelly-Pitou, Lucy Nottingham, Oliver Schelske, Bernd Wilke, Aida Boll, Sandra Winkler, and Einari Kisel
The World Energy Council
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Energy
How can polycentric governance of spectrum work?
September 2016 | Martin B.H. Weiss, Prashant Krishnamurthy, and Marcela Gomez
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference
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Government
The Ordinary and the Unique in Russia's Electoral Information Warfare Game
August 2016 | Michael Poznansky
War on the Rocks
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Russia, Cyberwarfare
Distributed Algorithms for Spatial Retrieval Queries in Geospatial Analysis
July 2016 | Qiulei Guo, Balaji Palanisamy, Hassan A. Karimi, and Liming Zhang
Services Transactions of Cloud Computing
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Cloud
Time-Dependent Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11p Vehicular Networks
July 2016 | Kunjie Xu, David Tipper, Yi Qian, Prashant Krishnamurthy
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
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Networking, AI
Panel Security and Privacy in the Age of Internet of Things: Opportunities and Challenges
June 2016 | Jianwei Niu, Yier Jin, Adam J. Lee, Ravi S. Sandhu, Wenyuan Xu, and Xiaoguang Zhang
21st ACM on Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies
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Cybersecurity, IoT, Privacy
Attribution and Secrecy in Cyberspace
March 2016 | Michael Poznansky and Evan Perkoski
War on the Rocks
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Cybersecurity
Towards Interoperable Network Ontologies for the Digital Humanities
March 2016 | Alison Langmead, Jessica M. Otis, Christopher N. Warren, Scott B. Weingart and Lisa D. Zilinksi
International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing
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Digital Media
Socio-spatial affiliation networks
January 2016 | Konstantinos Pelechrinis and Prashant Krishnamurthy
Computer Communications
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Social Media