TRUST EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
OVERVIEW
TRUST education focuses on the integrating trustworthy technologies,
systems, and policy into learning opportunities for a broad range of
community participants. Our programs drive curriculum reform and training
to teach the next generation of computer scientists, engineers, and
social scientist. TRUST activities are focused at undergraduate, graduate
and community partners.
OBJECTIVES
Education and outreach is a core value for all TRUST initiatives.
Our goal is to:
- Drive curriculum reform and training to teach the next generation
of computer scientists, engineers and social scientists;
- Develop science and technology that will radically transform the
ability of organizations to design, build, and operate trustworthy
information systems for critical infrastructure;
- Partner with educational institutions serving under-represented
populations;
- Increase the participation of underrepresented students in undergraduate
and graduate research in the field of Trusted Systems.
EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES
TRUST Academy Online (TAO)
The TRUST Academy Online (TAO) Portal supports online community outreach for TRUST, an NSF Science and Technology Center. TAO Project Profiles share the stories of individual TRUST projects and provide access to related resources. TAO Courseware Profiles disseminate sets of learning materials contributed by TRUST investigators, institutions, and partners.
The TAO Portal implements the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. This protocol enables metadata harvesters to catalog and maintain record data from our repository.
The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. OAI has its roots in the open access and institutional repository movements. Continued support of this work remains a cornerstone of the Open Archives program. Over time, however, the work of OAI has expanded to promote broad access to digital resources for eScholarship, eLearning, and eScience.
The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is a low-barrier mechanism for repository interoperability. Data Providers are repositories that expose structured metadata via OAI-PMH. Service Providers then make OAI-PMH service requests to harvest that metadata. OAI-PMH is a set of six verbs or services that are invoked within the Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
The TAO portal offers a convenient set of metadata. This change has been put in place to better accommodate the need of our authors. Some metadata vocabularies have been shortened for easier understanding and editing, also some metadata tags have been retired.
The site also features live news feed from the TRUST website. This feature has been added to the news page and to the left navigation bar.
Women's Institute in Summer Enrichment – WISE 2008
WISE is a one-week residential summer program on the Cornell
University campus that brings together graduate students, post-doctoral
fellows, and professors from all disciplines that are interested in
Ubiquitous Secure Technology and the social, political, and economical
ramifications that are associated with this technology. Applications
for this program are due April 15, 2008.
[learn more: see the 2007 program]
Summer 2008 Speakers include:
- Annie Anton: Computer Science, NC State
- Ruzen Bajcsy: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley– TRUST
- Judy Cardell: Computer Science, Smith College– TRUST
- Maryanne Davidson: Oracle
- Wendi Heinzelman: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University
of Rochester
- Sheila Hemami: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University
- Susan Landau – Sun Microsystems Laboratories
- Deirdre Mulligan/Maryanne McCormick, UC Berkeley– TRUST
- Christine Shoemaker: Environmental and Civil Engineering, Cornell
Univeristy
- Yuan Xue: Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University–TRUST
Project Lead: Kristen Gates/Steve Wicker (Cornell University)
Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley
Information Technology -- SUPERB-IT
The Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST) is sponsoring
eight undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds and cultures,
to participate in the Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research
at Berkeley during the summer of 2007 (SUPERB-IT). Applications for
this program are due January 31, 2008. [learn
more]
The Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley
- Information Technology (SUPERB-IT) in the Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences (EECS) Department offers a group of talented undergraduate
engineering students the opportunity to gain research experience. The
program's objective is to provide research opportunities in engineering
to students who have been historically underrepresented in the field
for reasons of social, cultural, educational or economic barriers. SUPERB-IT
affirms students' motivation for graduate study and strengthens their
qualifications through strong faculty mentoring and challenging research
projects. These students work with graduate student mentors throughout
the summer performing research and supporting activities in the area
of information technology and TRUST related topics.
Project Lead: Kristen Gates
SECuR-IT: Summer Experience, Colloquium and Research in Information Technology
at Stanford University and San Jose State University The
Summer Experience, Colloquium and Research in Information Technology
(SECuR-IT) is a ten-week residential program with paid internship co-located
at Stanford University and San Jose State University. SECuR-IT will
run from June 2, 2008 until August 8, 2008. SECuR-IT is a collaboration
between TRUST and our industry/academic workgroup and is a new TRUST
program. The topic for the intern experience is network security. The
ten-week Summer 2007 program will be a cohort of 20 graduate students
selected from a national pool of applicants. The internship experience
will be with leading Silicon Valley network security companies, such
as eBay, SUN, Symantec, Yahoo, Cisco, SalesForce.com
Weekly seminars will bring a variety of UC Berkeley, Stanford and San
Jose State University faculty together in an exciting lecture format.
The seminars will be designed to support the network security topics
germane to our industry sponsor internship activities. Industry guest
speakers will also be invited to speak at the seminars. [learn
more: see the 2007 program]
Project Leads: Kristen Gates, Sigurd Meldal & John Mitchell
Curriculum Development in Security and Information Assurance (CDSIA)
On April 18, 2008 TRUST will organize the first annual Workshop on Curriculum Development in Security and Information Assurance (CDSIA 2008) at San Jose State University.
The objectives were to (1) reach out to the many universities of the California State University system and to other universities whose mission is focused on work-force preparation and undergraduate education, (2) to share with faculty members of these institutions material and support structures developed by the TRUST partners, (3) to strengthen the TRUST-related community of educators, and (4) to facilitate the education of members of underrepresented communities in the domain of secure technologies.
The CDSIA 2008 had 35 participants registered, from 16 universities (14 of the 23 universities of the CSU), half of these universities are HSI institutions, and the remainders are all Associate members of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU).
Four TRUST partner institutions (San Jose State (host), Stanford, UC Berkeley and Vanderbilt) participated in CDSIA 2008.
The workshop topics included:
• Security, information assurance and policy in the general education curriculum
• Tools support for teaching IA and security curriculum components
• Sharing and delivering curricula through the TRUST Academy Online (TAO)
• What preparation does industry require?
• Certification and accreditation - where are we with respect to security?
• What role (if any) should the teaching of “malware” play in the curriculum?
Contact Dr. Sigurd Meldal for more information about this program.
Project Lead: Sigurd Meldal
Information Assurance Capacity Building Program (IACBP) and Information
Assurance Capacity Symposium (IACS)
- The objectives of the Information Assurance Capacity Building program
are to:
- Help build new capacity or expand existing capacity of minority
serving institutions to offer Information Assurance (IA) courses and
programs at institutions not currently designated as Center of Excellence
in Information Assurance Education (CAE/IAE).
- Expand the number of institutions that are CAEs in Information Assurance
- Expand the number of Ph.D. level researchers in Information Assurance.
Participants are faculty members at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).
They will spend four weeks of intensive training at Carnegie-Mellon
University, return to their home institutions and then participate in
a follow-up symposium at San Jose State University one year later.The
project is funded by NSF directly as well as through TRUST partners.
Information Assurance Capacity Symposium is outreach to HSI and HBSC
faculty members, to work with them to introduce and strengthen the Information
Assurance components of their curriculum. They first attend a one-month
summer school at CMU, then we do a follow-up symposium at SJSU the summer
after. Summer 2007, all participants in the 2005 and 2006 summer schools
are invited.
The symposium will (1) showcase the participants' achievements after
the summer school, (2) further update their expertise, and (3) bring
them into closer touch with industry.
Project Lead: Sigurd Meldal
Education Community Building – A Security Curriculum Consortium
This year the outreach component has been strengthened by bringing in 10 minority serving institutions of the CSU system. The focus is to provide infrastructure support for the transformation of research material into usable learning material at the undergraduate and graduate level, and to reach broadly out to the education communities through education conference participation and through a collaboration with institutions that have education as their primary mission. The mechanism is to join faculty members from 10-15 CSU campuses in a commn effort to bring TRUST material into the IT curricula, and into the broader educationcurricula of minority serving institutions.
Of particular note for year four is the plan to conffirm the relationships established in year three with minority serving institutions within the California State University System through the Security Curriculum Consortium of institutions co-developing and adopting TRUST-based education material.
Through this effort the TRUST center will engage in a broad out-reach process, engaging faculty at minority serving (and in particular Hispanic-serving) institutions.
The project thus serves as a vehicle for knowledge transfer from TRUST to faculty members of profession-oriented institutions of higher education.
Project Leads: Sigurd Meldal
Details about the education workgroup
Membership in the education workgroup is available to members of our partner
Universities, Corporations and Government Institutions. If you meet
the membership criteria, please feel free
to request an account in the education workgroup.
If you do have a Trust web site account, please request
to be added to the education workgroup.
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