of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the National Security Agency. The B.S. in Applied Network- ing and System Administra- tion program is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET, and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies has teamed with the Rochester Institute of Technology to offer cross disciplinary degrees featur- ing cyber security, CBRNE (chemical, biological, radio- logical, nuclear and high- yield explosives) defense and counterterrorism.


 Rensselaer Poly- technic Institute


engineering principles that underlie the Web, enhance the Web’s reach beyond the desktop and laptop computer, and develop new technologies and languages.


 Syracuse University, L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Com- puter Science


 Tennessee State University


Rensselaer is America’s oldest technological research university. The Computer Science Department at RPI confers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees. Currently there are about 450 undergraduates and about 85 graduate students. Major research areas include bio-informatics, com- putational science and engi- neering, computer vision, da- tabase systems, networking, parallel computing, pervasive computing, robotics, semantic web, software design, and theoretical computer science. RPI’s Tetherless World Constellation addresses an emerging area of web sci- ence, focusing on the World Wide Web and its future use. Faculty in the constellation will explore the research and


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This October, Syracuse University announced that it had received a two-year $760,000 grant from the Na- tional Science Foundation to fund U.S. citizens interested in studying cyber security and information assurance. The money will fund six graduate students a year for two years through the Scholarships for Service program. The SFS scholarship provides one-year or two-year scholarships that fund 18 credit hours per year of tuition costs and a yearly stipend of $12,000 in return for working for a government agency after graduation. The program is designed to increase and strengthen the cadre of information security professionals in the federal, state, and local agencies in the United States. Since 2003, SU has graduated nearly 50 SFS scholars who are already working in government agen- cies with skills that enable them to work in a range of information assurance man- agement, policy, and systems development positions.


As of January 1, 2010 the Pilot Center for Academic Excellence in Intelligence Studies became The Center for Academic Excellence in Intelligence Studies @ Tennessee State University. This marks the successful completion of the pilot phase and entrance in the continuity phase as an Intelligence Com- munity Center of Academic Excellence.


 University of the District Of Columbia


In


October 2009,


the D.C. School of


Engineering & Applied Sciences faculty received a $300K federal competitive grant from the National Science Foundation to develop the Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education designation from the National Security Agency. The Computer Science and Information Technology Department at UDC is the only producer of master’s degrees in computer science at an urban land-grant university in the United States.


CSIT is one of the largest computer science


and information technology departments in the D.C. area, and with about 200 students. CSIT students work with the department’s faculty on in- teresting research challenges in various areas spanning da- tabases, algorithms, artificial intelligence, networking and security, software engineer- ing, GIS, and informatics.


 University of Mary- land, College Park


Researchers at the


University of Maryland are developing new technolo- gies and security strategies to help establish broad-based cyber security assurance. The new Maryland Cyber Security Center (MC²) will help “connect the dots” in the region’s burgeoning federal and private cyber sector. MC² will draw on exten- sive cyber security research already underway at the university, including wire- less and network security, cryptography, secure pro- gramming, ensuring citizens’ privacy in social networks, cyber supply chain research, attacker behavioral analysis, cyber security policy and economics, and multimedia forensics.


The center’s work will also have special relevance for healthcare IT, as well as the utility, telecommunica- tions and banking sectors. University of Maryland stu-


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