The University of Connecticut’s Comcast Center of Excellence for Security Innovation recently hosted CyberSEED 2016. Speakers from around the country shared perspectives on cybersecurity issues and the importance of strengthening online defenses in vital areas. Complete article is here.
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UConn Establishes Synchrony Financial Center of Excellence in Cybersecurity
We are delighted to announce that UConn, with the investment of $2.2 million over the next five years from Synchrony Financial, is establishing the Synchrony Financial Center of Excellence in Cybersecurity. Through its partnership with UConn, Synchrony Financial will provide an endowment for a Synchrony Financial Chair in Cybersecurity to advance education and research in […]
Phillip Bradford speaks at the First Northeast JavaScript Conference, Future of Software Panel
Future of Software Panel at the First Northeast JavaScript Conference, Stamford, CT 2016-09-15. Panelists: Jeff Fox, Ed Faulkner, Phil Bradford, Prabal Ghosh, Isaac Sacolick We were given this sentence a few days in advance: “Wired magazine: the future software developers won’t need ‘code’ per se.” Phillip G. Bradford’s Discussion Position The demand for coding or […]
REGISTER NOW for CyberSEED 2016
Emerging Cybersecurity Trends in Cloud, IoT and Beyond, October 10-11, 2016, at UConn Hosted by the Comcast Center of Excellence for Security Innovation at the University of Connecticut (CSI), CyberSEED brings together top information security professionals and business leaders to discuss emerging cybersecurity trends and formulate best strategies for tackling current and future threats. In […]
Graduate Students Compete in CS Trivia Game
The Computer Science and Engineering department welcomed its new graduate students for the fall semester. Students and faculty got to know each other over ice cream from the UConn Dairy Bar and a rousing game of computer science trivia. Graduate students formed teams and answered computer science trivia. Questions ranged from the basic, such as […]
CT Skills Challenge Programming Contest
Registration is closed. PREPARE FOR THE CT SKILLS CHALLENGE
Gift to The Cigna Graduate Assistant Fund for Computer Sciences
We would like to thank Mr. Nicholas Wagner for his generous contribution to The Cigna Graduate Assistant Fund for Computer Sciences to establish two graduate assistantships. Graduate assistants divide their full-time efforts between study and assistantship responsibilities. The support shown by Nicholas enables our students to become leaders, problem solvers, and innovators who will shape […]
Professors Khan and Gokhale Receive Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grant
Congratulations to Professor Mohammad Maifi Khan and Professor Swapna Gokhale for receiving an Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant entitled: Performance Analysis and Diagnosis of Cloud-based DDDAS Applications. This project focuses on optimal resource allocation, tuning and troubleshooting of system performance in cloud settings, especially for DDDAS applications, which can be challenging for several […]
Professor McCartney Receives Best Paper Award
Robert McCartney was recognized along with seven other authors for his outstanding work on his paper, A Multi-institutional Study of Peer Instruction in Introductory Computing. Peer Instruction (PI) is a student-centric pedagogy in which students move from the role of passive listeners to active participants in the classroom. Over the past five years, there have […]
Hacking 101: UConn students crack codes for the greater good
In 2015, 288,012 complaints of internet crime resulting in $1,070,711,522 in financial losses were reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Center of the Federal Bureau of Investigation[i]. A staggering 80% of the claims came from the United States. The daunting task of staying ahead of hackers has led to a full-on cyber war across hardware […]