Michael Hart
I grew up in the Boston, Massachusetts area. Though initially interested in law school, I received my B.S. from Tufts University in Computer Science. I was accepted into the Ph.D. program at Stony Brook. My advisor is Rob Johnson.

I am in my second year of Ph.D. studies. I am a member and admin of the SPLAT lab. Please pursue my research interests to find out what I'm working on. Also, here is my resume.

research interests (including but not limited to):

• Security, particularly policy, privacy and access control
• Natural Langauge Processing
• Compilers

extracurricular:

• De facto Slashdot link
• My second home
• Where I spend 35% of my day

CBAC:
Currently, I am working with Dr. Rob Johnson and Dr. Amanda Stent on developing Content-Based Access Control. This framework for access control mediates access to objects based on the features of the object itself and others. This allows increased flexibility in policy specification to meet the needs of content driven systems. Read more here

PLOG: Privacy/Policy aware bLOGging
This will be one of the first CBAC enabled systems. We are looking in to creating a blogging system where access is based on affinity. This will engender natural and intuitive access policies like "share my entries about heavy-metal music with other fans of heavy-metal".

Wikipedia Integrity Project
Wikipedia is a fantastic web encylopedia resource that has been favorably compared with private encyclopedic resources. It's strength and weakness lies within its largely "honor code" policy for editing entries. The concern is that as it popularity continues to increase, it's reliability could suffer from vandalism from malicious users. To this end we are investigating the space of attacks on this type of system and looking for solutions to prevent more subtle acts of vadalism beyond profanity.

Publications

2006

Submitted to the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Privacy and Security, Content-Based Access Control, Michael Hart, Rob Johnson, Amanda Stent

My email address can be constructed from the following strings:

"m" , "hart" , "@", "cs.sunys.,edu"