LERSAIS News Headlines
2011
- The School of Information Sciences is pleased to announce that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has continued its funding for the Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program at the iSchool. The scholarship funds will support students as they earn their Master's Degree in Information Science (MSIS) or Telecommunications (MST) in the Security Assured Information Systems specialization. The SFS program addresses the critical need for a workforce trained to develop, design, and implement secure information systems. This NSF-funded program aims to create a cadre of professionals that can protect the nationŐs critical information infrastructures. The scholarships cover tuition, books, fees, a paid summer internship, and conference travel. For more information, please contact us at isinq@sis.pitt.edu.
- The paper, "Towards Active Detection of Identity Clone Attacks on Online Social Networks" by Lei Jin, Hassan Takabi and James Joshi, wins the Best Paper award at the First ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (ACM CODASPY 2011) [http://129.115.57.149/codaspy/2011/index.html]
- The following paper by LERSAIS group won the Best Student paper award at the 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS (ACM SPRINGL) on November 1st, 2011, Chicago, IL, USA : Anonymizing Geo-Social Network Datasets Amirreza Masoumzadeh (University of Pittsburgh), James Joshi (University of Pittsburgh)
Newsletter notes: http://www.modap.org/sites/all/themes/modap/vol_3_issue_2.pdf (page 3)2009
- U.S. scrambles to develop cyber defenses to fight Internet hacking ( featured in local Newspaper: Pittsburgh Tribune)
2008
- October 28 - NSF offers grant to Tipper
- July 8 - Pitt is designated as a “National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research”
- June - ARO Funded Research Project
- June - James Joshi Promoted
- June - Faculty Edit Information Assurance Publication
2007
- June 28 - $1 Million Awarded to LERSAIS
2006
- January 24 - Joshi Receives NSF-CAREER Award
2005
2004
- July 8 - LERSAIS Receives NSF Grant
- June 9 - Dean Larsen and Prof. Joshi Accept NSA CAE/IAE Certification
- April 15 - Prof. Krishnamurthy Attends CNSS Conference; Accepts CNSS Certificates
- April 13 - LERSAIS Efforts Earn Pitt CAE/IAE Designation
- February 15 - SAIS Program Receives CNSS 4012 Certification
- February 6 - LERSAIS Initiates New Seminar Series
2003