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Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey Bay Chapter
Educational Fund
John McReynolds Wozencraft
Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Colloquia
Dr. Wozencraft’s Interdisciplinary Activities at NPS 1972-74 and 1977-87
Dr. Dan C. Boger
Chairman, Information Sciences Department
Introduction of Guest Lecturer
Dr. Roger D. Melen Senior Advisor
Toyota Infotechnology Center, Stanford University
Turing, von Neumann, and Beyond !
A New Computing Machine That Addresses a Root Cause of Malware
Dr. Michael S. Fiske
Chief Executive Officer, Fiske Software, LLC
Tuesday February 26, 2013 at 4 PM Mechanical Engineering Auditorium
Visitors: Gate Access Required – RSVP no later than February 20, 2013
Email: [email protected] with name, telephone number, and citizenship
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Dr. John McReynolds Wozencraft (September 30, 1925 - August 31, 2009)
This colloquia honors scientist, mathematician, information theorist, electrical engineer, innovator,
and educator, Dr. John McReynolds Wozencraft and celebrates his legacy at the U. S. Military
Academy, the Army Signal Corps, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Lincoln
Laboratory, and the Naval Postgraduate School. Dr. Wozencraft was recruited by NPS Academic
Dean Dr. Milton U. Clauser (Director MIT Lincoln Laboratory January 1967 to June 1970) to be
Dean of Research 1972 to 1974 while on sabbatical from MIT. He joined the NPS faculty in 1977
and was the first Chairman of a new academic group to implement a new interdisciplinary graduate
education program from the Secretary of Defense called Command, Control, and Communications
(C3) – predecessor to the NPS Joint C4I program and Cyber Academic Group established in 2012.
Dr. Michael Stephen Fiske at University of Cambridge, King’s College, Great Court Alan Turing Centenary Conference June 2012
Michael spoke on “Turing Incomputable Computation”
Recent cyber attacks have demonstrated that current approaches to the malware problem (e.g.,
detection) are inadequate. This is not surprising as malware detection is Turing undecidable.
Further, some recent malware implementations use nondeterministic polynomial time hard (NP-
hard) problems to encrypt and camouflage the malicious software (malware). The problem is so
insidious that the standard security mechanisms such as passwords, biometrics and current
cryptography do not ensure protection.
Why are digital computers extremely vulnerable to malware? Current computers rely on operating
systems that execute on a von Neumann machine architecture. From a mathematical perspective,
these machines execute computational steps that are topologically disconnected. This mathematical
property creates hijacking opportunities for malware. From a computer science perspective, the
sequential execution of instructions – “one at a time” – make current digital computers vulnerable
to hijacking. Dr. Fiske will discuss his invention, the Active Element Machine (AEM).
www.aemea.org/Turing100
