New funding enables work on Internet policy and cybersecurity for key infrastructure
Today, MIT’s cross-disciplinary Internet Policy Research Initiative (IPRI) announced that it has awarded $1.5 million to a select group of principal investigators for early-stage Internet policy and cybersecurity research projects. “Each project is aimed to support innovative research in their respective fields and result in new insights that can guide policy makers in making wise choices on pressing Internet policy challenges,” says IPRI founding director Daniel Weitzner, who is also a principal research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The seed fund grants cover five interdisciplinary projects, with lead researchers from across campus including the MIT Sloan School of Management, the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), and CSAIL. Sloan economist Andrew Lo and CSAIL computer scientist Vinod Vaikuntanathan are receiving funding for their project on measuring systemic cybersecurity risk. Vaikuntanathan, who studies cryptography, says that the economic effects of cyber attacks are hard to assess, quantify, and...