MIT Room 26-100

Tuesday March 28, 9 am to 5 pm

Agenda

MIT Spam Conference 2006

All papers were refereed by at least two "arms-length" judges; there were four "recusements" by judges. The Chair wishes to personally thank the Referees (Gordon Cormack, John Graham-Cumming, and Jon Praed) for their good work.

Webcast URLs:

MIT Media will be doing both live and delayed webcasting of the conference.

Morning Session
Afternoon Session

You will need RealPlayer version 8 or later for these webcasts; HelixPlayer will not suffice. Configuration help is here.

We will be producing ISO disk images of all of the papers, slide sets, and DVD ISO images of the four sessions for download soon; you will be able to download and burn these for your own (and your library's) archives. Please do so; this samizdat is how the MIT Spam Conference publishes and propagates results.

Networking I

  • 9:00 AM coffee, juice, bagels, and muffins arrive. Hordes of devouring locusts wreak havoc. Literature and chatter ensue.

    • SESSION I

  • 9:20 AM 0pening comments (Yerazunis) - 10 minutes
  • 9:30 AM Tobias Eggendorfer [ITIS - Universitaet der Bundeswehr Munchen] - Comparing SMTP and HTTP tar pits in their efficiency as an anti-spam measure
  • 9:50 AM Raymond and Van Alstyne [Email Accountability Initiative] - Message Verification Platform: A Pure Economic Response to All Irrelevant Contact.
  • 10:10 AM Catalin Cosoi [BitDefender] - An Anti-Spam filter based on Adaptive Neural Networks
  • 10:30 AM Giovanni Donelli [University of Bologna] - Email Interferometry

    • 10:50 AM 10-minute break - coffee, juice, bagels, muffins

    SESSION II

  • 11:00 AM Yerazunis, Assis, Siefkes, Chhabra [CRM114 Team] - KNN and Hyperspace Antispam Filters
  • 11:20 AM Zhong, Ramaswamy, Li [University of Georgia] - Towards a Ham Archive
  • 11:40 PM Hughes and McIsaac [Reflexion] - Supplemental Addresses: A Unique Defense against Spam and other Email Malware
  • 12:00 Palla and Dantu [University of North Texas] - Detecting Phishing in Emails

    • 12:20 Break for lunch - go enjoy! (offsite- please take this time to network!) Reconvene 1:30 PM

    SESSION III

  • 1:30 Zdziarski, Yang, Judge [CipherTrust] - Approaches to Phishing Identification using Match and Probabalistic Digital Fingerprinting Techniques
  • 1:50 Assis, Siefkes, Chhabra, Yerazunis [CRM114 Team] - Exponential Differential Document Count: A Feature Selection Factor for Improving Bayesian Filter Accuracy
  • 2:10 Aaron Kornblum [Microsoft] - "John Does" No More: Exposing Zombie Spammers
  • 2:30 Jon Praed [Internet Law Group] - CAN-SPAM and Microbranding

    • 2:50 Afternoon Break - 10 minutes yet more coffee, juice, bagels, and muffins

    SESSION IV - INVITED TALKS

  • 3:00 Invited Talk: Eric Allman (author of Sendmail) enlightens us.
  • 3:40 Invited Talk: Barry Shein (president of world.std.com) further enlightens us.

    • SESSION V - FOLLOWUPS

  • 4:20 Closing Q&A: 20 minutes
  • 4:40 N-on-N discussion groups: 20 minutes
  • 5:00 All done! Go have dinner with people!

    • Company Sponsorships

    We can accept sponsorships - if your company would like to sponsor, please contact the Conference Chair: Bill Yerazunis (yerazunis@merl.com). As the conference itself is free, this is the sole means of support for the Spam Conference series.

    Registering for the Conference

    The conference is free, but please register if you want to attend. [ if this link fails, please send wsy@merl.com email !] We have been full the past two years, so register early to ensure a seat.

    Spam Conference 2006 Sponsors:






    Questions: Bill Yerazunis (Chair) - yerazunis@merl.com
    http://spamconference.org