Pizza and helping plan our ISTAS25 conference on AI Evolution & Revolution! Join us for our fourth 2025 SSIT meeting where we'll continue to briefly cover our SSIT Chapter activities for 2025 and ongoing plans for the upcoming "AI Evolution & Revolution" ISTAS25 - International Symposium on Technology and Society https://attend.ieee.org/istas-2025/ conference. We will also have a guest speaker for this meeting (details to be confirmed and announced soon). We continue to be busy planning the ISTAS25 Conference for September 10-13 at Santa Clara University, and still welcome new feedback about our programs, and suggestions for sponsorships and volunteers. Agenda: 6:00 PM Intros and Pizza 6:15 PM SSIT Chapter Updates and Main Meeting 7:30 PM Adjourn Room: 4021, Bldg: SCDI, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95053

Free Registration (with a Zoom account; you can get one for free if you don't already have it. This requirement is to avoid Zoom bombing. Please sign in using the email address tied to your Zoom account — not necessarily the one you used to register for the event.): https://sjsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/vo5r9OqaSFuqKsuFcww7Cg Synopsis: AR/VR devices promise a new era of immersive computing, where our everyday experience is augmented with helpful information (Augmented Reality), or where we are immersed in fully virtual worlds (Virtual Reality). These systems fuse the physical world and the virtual world through computing resources to provide these immersive experiences rendered on the user's headset. As a result, it allows new opportunities for attackers to compromise the security and privacy of users that are not well understood. Towards understanding the security and privacy challenges in these systems, this talk presents a number of recent attacks we developed on AR/VR systems. One threat model exploits the shared computing resources used by multiple applications on a headset to extract information through side channels; we show attacks that spy on user activity or compromise privacy. Another threat model exploits the shared state among multiple users in a multi-user application, allowing malicious users to inject compromised information or to recover information they are not allowed to access. Other threat models include those that interfere with applications and cause the virtual model to become out of sync with the physical world, causing user motion sickness or bypassing safety guardrails. I will conclude with a discussion of potential defenses and ways to build more secure AR/VR experiences. --------------------------------------------------------------- By registering for this event, you agree that IEEE and the organizers are not liable to you for any loss, damage, injury, or any incidental, indirect, special, consequential, or economic loss or damage (including loss of opportunity, exemplary or punitive damages). The event will be recorded and will be made available for public viewing. Co-sponsored by: Vishnu S. Pendyala, SJSU Speaker(s): Dr. Vishnu S. Pendyala, Prof. Nael Abu-Ghazaleh Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/485364

This is a hybrid in-person and online event. Pre-registration is required for either. Achieving zero net emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) is not enough to restore the climate. It is important that we also reduce the current atmospheric CO2 level of 420 ppm to the historically-safe pre-industrial level of below 300 ppm. The most practical way to achieve this goal appears to be the use of ocean iron fertilization to stimulate phytoplankton uptake of carbon dioxide in strategic locations. In this talk, David Snyder will discuss this method, which is based on data from natural processes including hundreds of thousands of years of climate data, and observations from the 1991 Pinatubo and 2022 Tonga volcanic eruptions. He will also describe a pilot project conducted with modern measurement, reporting, and verification technologies, including instrument buoys and satellites, which will help to confirm the approach and refine its methodology. Speaker(s): David Snyder, 673 South Milpitas Blvd., Milpitas, California, United States, 95035, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/481889