Title: Impossible Problems Don’t Stand a Chance
Abstract:
The Institute for Defense Analyses Center for Computing Sciences focuses the skills of some of the country’s leading mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers to solve intelligence-related problems of importance to national security, and of interest to the entire computational science world. CCS’s original mission – the development and use of high-end computing – has expanded over the years to include cryptography, extensive projects in network security and related cyber issues, signal processing, and emerging algorithmic and mathematical techniques for analyzing extremely complex data sets. Researchers at the Center bring their backgrounds in all branches of mathematics, computer science, computer architecture, electrical engineering, information theory, and the sciences to work on difficult scientific problems – the solutions to which are vital to the nation's security. In this talk we will discuss some of the unclassified technical work that CCS has been involved in over the years.
