Cybersecurity and Trustworthy Software Symposium brings industry and research leaders to Stevens, March 15
On Friday, March 15, Stevens Institute of Technology will bring together researchers and practitioners from government, academia and industry to explore problems and prospective solutions in the field of cybersecurity. The occasion will be a wide-ranging, in-depth Symposium on Cybersecurity and Trustworthy Software, organized by NJITES: The New Jersey Institute for Trustworthy Enterprise Software.
The symposium will be held in the 4th Floor Bissinger Room at Stevens' Wesley J. Howe Center, 8:30 a.m. through 5:00 p.m., Friday, March 15. The Howe Center is located three blocks east of Washington and 8th Streets on the Stevens campus. Press are welcome to attend. For further information, please call the press contact at the top of this news release.
Issues of secure data and safe computer networks have risen to the top of the nation's defense priorities in the months following 9/11. In the areas of e-commerce and homeland security, the dangers of cyberterrorism are being explored through advanced modeling and simulation at a variety of corporate and university labs across the nation. At Stevens, laboratories in secure software and secure networks are looking ahead several technology generations to find urgently needed answers to questions from partners in government and business.
Arranged with the assistance of Dr. Dominic Duggan of Stevens' Laboratory for Secure Systems, the symposium will feature a 9:30 a.m. keynote talk by Fred Schneider, a researcher at Cornell University. The topic of his talk will be "The Case for Language-Based Security." Steve Bellovin of AT&T Laboratories, who will discuss issues of network security, will keynote the afternoon session.
Others appearing on the program will be Naftaly Minsky of Rutgers University, David Walker of Princeton University and Constantine Manikopoulos of the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Appearing from Stevens' faculty will be Dr. Duggan, Dr. Susanne Wetzel, and Dr. David Naumann.
For a complete listing of symposium topics and schedules, please visit the following: http://guinness.cs.stevens.edu/~dduggan/Public/NJITES/symposium.html
The symposium is sponsored by the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology (www.njcst.org), the New Jersey Center for Software Engineering (www.njcse.org) and Stevens Institute of Technology.
To view the NJITES website, please visit www.njites.org
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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