Rick Wash is a third year doctoral student in the School of Information. He has worked developing e-commerce systems and studied computer security systems and cryptography. His current work involves applying economic ideas to computer security problems.

Publications

Rick Wash and Emilee Rader, Public Bookmarks and Private Benefits: An Analysis of Incentives in Social Computing. In ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2007
Rick Wash and Jeff MacKie-Mason, Incentive Centered Design and Information Security, July 2006. Presented at the First Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec) 2006
Rick Wash, Incentive Design for Home Computer Security, January 2007. Extended Abstract at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Human Interaction 2007 Doctoral Consortium.
Emilee Rader and Rick Wash, Tagging with Del.icio.us: Social or Selfish?, November 2006. Presented at Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 06 Poster Session.
Rick Wash and Jeff MacKie-Mason, Incentive Centered Design and Information Security, January 2007. At DIMACS Workshop on Information Security Economics
Rick Wash and Jeff MacKie-Mason. Security when people matter: structuring incentives for user behavior. August 2007. At Ninth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC07) Invited Track on Privacy in E-Commerce
An Economic Solution to the Spam Problem, Thede Loder, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Rick Wash, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2004
The Future of Internet Worms, Jose Nazario, Jeremy Anderson, Rick Wash, and Chris Connelly, Presented at the Blackhat Briefings, July, 2001
Information Asymmetry and Thwarting Spam, Thede Loder, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Rick Wash, January 2004
Lecture Notes on Stream Ciphers and RC4, Rick Wash, September 26, 2001
An Economic Solution to the Spam Problem, Thede Loder, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Rick Wash, Presented at the MIT Spam Conference 2004
Applications of Trusted Computing, Rick Wash, Presented at the First STIET Workshop, October 14, 2003
The Security of Trusted Computing, Rick Wash, Invited Talk at Case Western Reserve University, February 20, 2004 (slides, notes)
The Digital Millenium Copyright Act, Rick Wash, Given at the CWRU Chapter of the ACM, February 26, 2002 (notes)