Adaptive Security (Fall 2020)

Course Outline

The outline for the Fall 2020 run of Adaptive Security is available here.

Class Schedule

September 10, 2020

Introduction

September 15, 2020

• A. K. Dewdney, Core Wars (local copy)
  • In the game called Core War hostile programs engage in a battle of bits. (Scientific American, May 1984)
  • A Core War bestiary of viruses, worms and other threats to computer memories (Sciencific American, March 1985)
  • A program called MICE nibbles its way to victory at the first Core War tournament (Scientific American, )
  • Of worms, viruses and Core War (Scientific American, )

September 17, 2020

• Tom Ray, Tierra (1992)

December 8, 2020

Presentations 1

December 10, 2020

Presentations 2

Project Milestones

• September 18, 2020: Areas of interest
• September 29, 2020: Elevator Pitch
• October 23, 2020: Literature Review
• November 17, 2020: Tests/Preliminary Work

Readings

Initially we will read selections from past runs of Biological Approaches to Computer Security:

• Winter 2004
• Winter 2005

The focus of this class will be on designing and building actual defenses so we won't cover many of these readings. However, you may want to take a look at them for inspiration.