The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing International Conference on Security and Management has accepted for presentation the co-authored work of Elon senior Jonathan Citty and Duke Hutchings, assistant professor of computing sciences, titled "Design & Evaluation of an Image-based Authentication System for Small Touch-screens."
Hutchings will present the work in Las Vegas in July. Citty begins his work as a technical analyst with Credit Suisse in Research Triangle Park, N.C., upon graduation in May. The paper is the result of a multi-year Elon College Fellows undergraduate research project in which Citty built and designed a graphical PIN-style authentication system for mobile devices such as smart phones. Citty will also present this work during SURF, Elon’s Spring Undergraduate Research Forum.