Videos on Smart Grids

• Speaker: James A. Kelly is vice president of Engineering and Technical Services in the Transmission and Distribution business unit of Southern California Edison (SCE). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0P8Q4bKIc4
• Group discussion: In this National Science Foundation video, Jerry Beilinson, deputy editor of Popular Mechanics, discusses the future of electrical grids and the implications they have for the safety of the future. In 1940, 10 percent of energy consumption in America was used to produce electricity. That number has now increased to 40 percent. As Americans become increasingly dependent on electricity, what is being done to make the nation's electrical grid more resilient and nimble? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzFGLCRMdCU&feature=related

Cryptography- Theory and Practice

Lectures on voting protocols:

Speaker:
Steve Weis received his PhD from the Cryptography and Information Security group at MIT, where he was advised by Ron Rivest. He is a member of Google's Applied Security (AppSec) team and is the technical lead for Google's internal cryptographic library, KeyMaster. Google Tech Talks December, 19 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDnShu5V99s