UK Prime Minister David Cameron announces cybersecurity competition with CSAIL
As part of a series of cybersecurity initiatives made public today during British Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit with President Barack Obama, Cameron announced that MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) will face off against the University of Cambridge this fall for a special student hackathon dubbed “Cambridge v. Cambridge.” The multiday competition is part of continued efforts by the two nations to collaborate on cybersecurity and harness their collective brainpower to help combat global cyberattacks. “We look forward to this unique opportunity to foster more international collaboration on technical research in cybersecurity,” says Howard Shrobe, the CSAIL principal research scientist who leads the lab’s new Cybersecurity@CSAIL initiative. “We are excited to partner with the University of Cambridge on this academic initiative with our students, and hope that this will be the first of many events aimed at bringing together these two institutions.” Students in the competition will develop technologies and...