Experts from around the world will come to Michigan State University in March for an interdisciplinary conference on how to fight cybercrime, which costs the U.S. economy billions of dollars every year.
The first-ever event will bring researchers from the social and technical disciplines together to generate discussion and collaboration that will improve our knowledge of cybercrime and the policy response to this issue.
The Michigan State University Interdisciplinary Conference on Cybercrime will be held March 20 at the Henry Center for Executive Development.
The list of speakers includes Alice Hutchings, senior research analyst with the Australian Institute of Criminology; researcher Hsinchun Chen from the University of Arizona; and Thomas Holt, an MSU criminal justice professor who studies online credit card theft, youth cybercrime and other issues.
See speaker bios here.
Each panel discussion will feature a social and technical researcher to promote synergy between the disciplines on a given topic.
The conference is open to the public. The cost is $150 with registration before Feb. 1, and $175 thereafter.
A recent report by the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and International Studies estimated cybercrime costs the U.S. economy between $24 billion and $120 billion a year.
For more information and to register, visit the conference website.