Welcome
The Computer Networks, Information and Cryptography Laboratory is dedicated to performing fundamental research in the conception and implementations of computer networks and related applications. The Laboratory is supported, in part, by funding from federal and private sources.
The main problems being researched include implicit security models, social networks, key distribution protocols, random sequences, tacit knowledge, quantum information and cryptography. Other areas on which research is done include sensor networks, mobile applications, computer games, and learning theory.
The CNIC Lab and CREC have formed an alliance to use CREC’s MySource as a framework in the design of a new kind of a social computing network that not only brings people but it provides an outlet for businesses and schools to create communities that parallel the real ones and, most importantly, it provides information and choices to customers to optimize their energy use in the home or in the business. Originally named Pulling Islands of Data into Working Harmony, this concept of Smart Grid was awarded the national Cooperative Innovators Award for the year 2007.
Subhash Kak
Head, CNIC
Computer Science Department
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74078