The Center for RITES--News Archives

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  • August 2006: Solworth received an NSF Cybertrust grant for techniques to simplify specifying OS security.
  • August 2006: The center has transition to a much more reliable and higher speed networking infrastructure (1GBit/second within the center and 100MBit/second to the outside world). Thanks to those who helped in the transition-- Dave and BobG at ACCC and Doug and Ralph at CS-- as well as DJB's totally excellent DNS and qmail software.
  • Press about Prof. Nelson's SpamAlot project here
  • August 2006: Three computer security courses are being offered in Fall: CS 491, CS 545, and CS 587.
  • August 2006: Usenix security presentations: Mani Radhakrishnan (poster and short talk) and Tejas Khatiwalia (short talk).
  • July 2006: Mani Radhakrishnan, Tejas Khatiwalia, and Raj Swaminathan received Usenix travel grants to attend Usenix Security.
  • May 2006: Jon Solworth become Usenix Campus Representative (Usenix is the society for Unix and has an excellent conference on Computer Security).
  • May 2006: Mani Radhakrishnan gave a talk entitled "KernelSec" at the first Midwest Security Workshop held in Chicago.
  • April 2006: Richard Stallman to speak as Distinguished Lecturer at UIC at 11:00-1:00 on Friday, April 28th. Room 302 Student Center East (a.k.a. CCC)
  • April 2006: National Science Foundatation awarded a Computer Research Infrastructure Grant to the Center for a Security Lab for Research and Instruction.
  • March 2006: Limin Wang defended her Ph.D. thesis JailX: Protecting Users From X Applications on Wed. March 8th at 1:30 in 427 SEO (Adivisor: D. J. Bernstein).
  • February 2006: The National Security Agency's Committee on National Security Systems has certified our program in computer security as meeting the standards for Information Systems Security (INFOSEC) Professionals and for Information Systems Security Officers.
  • December 2005: Center for RITES established in the College of Engineering at UIC.
  • November 2005: Accreditation process begun with the National Security Agency (NSA) for Information Assurance (Computer Security).
  • November 2005: Prof. Robert H. Sloan has been elected to the IEEE-Computer Science Board of Governors for a three year term starting in 2006. Congratulations, Bob!
  • January 2005: Seminar series for computer security created at UIC (organizer Jon A. Solworth).