With the increase in highly automated cyber systems, including motor vehicles, cyberattacks present a true threat to life and limb. Dr. Barry Horowitz, the Munster Professor of Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Virginia, is working with the U.S. Department of Defense to create cyberphysical systems that detect cyberattacks and take corrective actions. In other words, Dr. Horowitz is teaching our automobiles, military aircraft and other complex physical systems how to defend themselves from dangerous cyberhacks.

Dr. Horowitz joined the UVA faculty in 2001 after a distinguished career in private industry that included helping the Federal Aviation Administration create the aircraft collision-avoidance system in use internationally today. He also helped the U.S. military create a system to track and destroy hostile missile systems–work for which he earned the U.S. Air Force’s highest civilian award. He received the Gold Medal for Engineering in 1990 from the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association and, in 1996, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. Horowitz’s talk is part of the Rose-Hulman Oscar C. Schmidt Lecture Series

The Lecture will be held in the Lake Room in the Mussallem Union on Rose-Hulman's campus.