Managing the Rights and Usage of Digital Resources

April 15, 2010
Gregory L. Heileman | Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico

In this talk, we will provide a brief overview of the research that we have conducted in the area of digital rights management (DRM) systems. This will include a discussion of DRM architectures, along with a consideration of how particular features and design decisions affect interoperability. Next we will consider DRM in a setting that allows us to model a number of current scenarios as games. This will include an analysis of the current strategies that attempt to influence the outcomes of these games, along with a new type of architectural infrastructure that creates an environment for DRM games that may prove useful in the future. We also conjecture how rights management, along with a term we have coined called “usage management”, might be deployed in emerging cloud computing infrastructures.

Speaker Details

Gregory L. Heileman received the BA degree from Wake Forest University in 1982, the MS degree in Biomedical Engineering and Mathematics from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1986, and the PhD degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida in 1989. In 1990 he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, where he is currently Professor and Associate Chair. Dr. Heileman teaches courses in algorithms and data structures, theory of computing, information theory, and information security. He received the School of Engineering’s Teaching Excellence award in 1995, the ECE Department Distinguished Teacher Award in 2000. He held ECE’s Gardner Zemke Professorship from 2005-08. He was the recipient of ECE’s Lawton-Ellis Award for combined excellence in teaching, research, and student/community involvement in 2001 and again 2009. In 2009 he was also awarded the IEEE Albuquerque Section outstanding Educator Award. His research interests are in computing systems, information security, and game theory. He is the author of the text Data Structures, Algorithms and Object-Oriented Programming, published by McGraw-Hill in 1996. During 1998 he held a research fellowship at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and in 2005 he held a similar position at the Universidad Politénica de Madrid. More recently, he has been involved in a number of systems-level research initiatives including a National Science Foundation Future Internet Design project, a US Army Military Surgical Information System project, and US Air Force projects dealing Trust Management and Usage Management. He served as a co-program chair for the 2008 and 2009 ACM Workshops on Digital Rights Management.