Computer Science award

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Brent Waters, assistant professor of computer science at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a 2010 Sloan Research Fellowship. Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded every year by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. The two-year fellowship will provide Waters with funds to support his research.

Waters' research is laying the foundation for managing encrypted computer data in cloud services (no more personal computer), where data is stored at third-party locations outside of the owner's control. Third-party storage sites are high value targets for an attacker, and Waters' research is helping build an entirely different vision for encryption, called functional encryption.

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