INCOSE 2003 Needs Volunteers!

Non-students check here for information: http://www.incose-wma.org/info/is2003volunteers.htm

Students check here for information: http://www.incose-wma.org/info/is2003students.htm

And for everyone, be sure to visit us in University Row!

Dr. John Baras has been awarded by the Army Research Office $264,000 for a high-speed modeling and simulation testbed for networked systems that will be used by the Systems Engineering and Integration Laboratory.
The DURIP program supports the purchase of state-of-the-art equipment that augments current university capabilities or develops new university capabilities to perform cutting-edge defense research.

This award is one of 125 granted nationwide through the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP).

The Systems Engineering Advanced Lecture Series, presented by John Baras, Director of the SEIL lab. The kickoff seminar will take place April 10, 2003.

Click here for more details.

RSA Security held a presentation to Faculty and Students, presented by Paul Townsend, Intel Strategic Account Manager.

This meeting focused on the various tools available from RSA Security and how those tools may be used in a wireless environment.

The following topics were covered:

Authentication Solutions:
RSA SecurID® - two-factor authentication using time-synched tokens & smart cards
RSA® Mobile - two-factor authentication for a mobile world
RSA Passage - smart badging: smart cards + physical access

Web Access Management Solutions:
RSA ClearTrust® - policy-based access to Web applications

Developer Solutionss:
RSA BSAFE - encryption
RSA e-Sign - digital signature solution

For more information on these tools, please see
http://www.rsasecurity.com/products/.

Best Paper Award:

John Baras, Alvaro A. Cardenas and Vahid Ramezani won the Best Paper Award in IT/C4ISR (Information Technology, Information Technology/Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) at the 23rd Army Science Conference in Orlando, Dec. 2-5, 2002.

Their paper was titled, "On-Line Detection of Distributed Attacks From Space-Time Network Flow Patterns."

Here is the link to the ASC website.

This paper is based upon work supported by the U.S. Army Research Office under Award No DAAD 190110494.