Lueny Morell

This invitation comes from my HP Labs colleague (an editor of this special issue) Bill Horne.

Please consider submitting something to the following Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. Example topics include but are not limited to:

* Privacy Enhanced Technology: privacy preserving data mining, publishing, and disclosure;  access control, anonymity, audit, and authentication; applied cryptography, cryptanalysis,  and digital signatures in PET; abuse cases and threat modeling; theoretical models and  formal methods; application of physical security for privacy enhancement.

* Trust and Reputation Management: trust management architectures and trust models; quantitative metrics and computation; security of trust management protocols/systems;  evaluation and test bed; trust related privacy enhancement solutions.

* Privacy and Trust in Emerging Complex Systems including: social networking; cloud  computing; power grid systems; sensor networks; Internet of Things; multimedia surveillance networks.

* Other Related Topics such as trust and privacy policies; human factors and usability; censorship; economics of trust and privacy; behavior modeling.

 For submission criteria and procedure go to  http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/publications/periodicals/forensics/forensics-authors-info/

This comes from SEFI headquarters in Brussels and looks mighty interesting.

A one-day conference focusing on the challenges in building and sustaining successful cross-sectoral partnerships between academic, business and public agencies to support regional innovation.

http://www.eu-drivers.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=90

A US National Research Council Report on discipline based research shows what works to improve science, engineering and math undergraduate education, but points that findings have not yet prompted widespread changes in teaching practice. 

What would it take to change how we teach engineering and science? To me, this is the most  critical issue to increase both the interest in and the retention of students in SMET disciplines! We know the problem, we understand the solution… What is keeping us? In spite of decades of individual investments, the issue will not be solved unless all stakeholders (government, industry and universities)  join efforts, ideas and resources.

To read more and download full report go to http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=13362&utm_medium=etmail&utm_source=National%20Academies&utm_campaign=05292012WhatsNew&utm_content=Web&utm_term=

From the Chronicle of Higher Education: born in Venezuela from a poor family, PhD from Stanford, former director of MIT’s online education program. This appointment certainly evidences the start of a new era for higher education. Felicidades, L. Rafael! I am proud to be Latinamerican.  

http://chronicle.com/article/MIT-Names-Its-Provost-Who-Led/131896/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

From the CCC blog:

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced their second webinar on Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science and Engineering (BIGDATA) program – the centerpiece of the Administration’s $200 million Big Data R&D Initiative.

Presentation (pdf) from first webinar: BIG-Data-Webinar-Honavar-Final-May8with508

For more information email: bigdata@nsf.gov or go to: 

http://www.cccblog.org/2012/05/08/nsf-nih-hold-joint-webinar-on-bigdata-solicitation/

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504767

Worth reviewing!

Results of the US National Bureau of Economic Research’s first systematic study of the mobility of scientists engaged in research in a large number of countries. Switzerland has the largest percent of immigrant scientists working in country (56.7); Canada, and  Australia trail by nine or more percent; the U.S. and Sweden by approximately eighteen percent. India has the lowest (0.8), followed closely by Italy and Japan.

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18067?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/05/15/study-examines-migration-patterns-scientists

Picked from the ASEE e-newsletter.

Collaboration and multidisciplinarity to augment and accelerate reserch and development.

The Washington Post (5/9, De Vise) “College Inc.” blog reported, “A team of University of Michigan professors have created a new model for funding academic research that potentially eliminates months of delay from when an idea is born till the money arrives to put it in play. They hope the rapid-funding approach will help their peers at Michigan compete in an increasingly fast-paced research community.”

        Inside Higher Ed (5/10) reports, “When three faculty members decide to ‘cube’ their tokens and work together on a project, they will receive — on a first-come, first-served basis — $60,000 to hire one graduate student, undergraduate student, or postdoctoral researcher to begin work on the idea. Thirty faculty members could cube together and get funds for 10 such positions. The idea is to let researchers quickly move toward testing their projects, rather than going through the long peer review process to receive an initial planning grant. Michigan officials hope these ‘cubed’ grants will let researchers move quickly into position to apply for much larger outside grants.”

From the Globalist – amazing how these two countries have followed similar paths.

http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?storyid=9609

HP Institute is an academic partnership program that provides students with the business-ready IT skills that industry needs.  Through the HP Institute program, HP makes it easy for academic institutions to enhance their degree programs with industry context and practical experience that will differentiate their graduates as they enter the workforce.  The HP offering includes a complete curriculum, a practice test that prepares students for an industry recognized certification, and hands-on lab experiences that enable a student to design and implement an entire end to end IT solution for a small or medium business company.  HP has packaged the complete learning solution into an ATA (Accredited Technical Associate) certification.  There are four academic courses available: 

• Connected Devices provides the ability to discover a company’s business objectives and design a multi-device, connected client solution incorporating PCs, tablets, mobile internet clients.
• Networks provides the ability to translate the business objectives of a company into a technology strategy and design a secure wired and wireless network solution.
• Servers & Storage provides the ability to discover a company’s business objectives and to design a design an appropriate server, storage and application solution.
• Cloud provides the ability to translate a company’s business objectives into a technology strategy and to design end-to-end IT solutions that include on-site, hosted and cloud based solutions in a small and medium business environment.

HP is the first IT vendor to provide an IT architecture certification including practical experience and job-ready skills into an academic setting.  Working with education enables HP to ensure continuous availability of talent that has precisely the skill and expertise that IT and business leaders need to achieve their business objectives.

For more information and a free 30-day trial visit: www.hp.com/go/institute and www.certiport.com/hp30 

Youtube video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwIHncvmLJs 

Contacts: Lueny Morell (lueny.morell@hp.com) and Brian Beneda (brian.beneda@hp.com)

This new venture, following others recently announced, certainly points to a new era in higher education, one that could reach millions around the globe shifting paradigms.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/education/harvard-and-mit-team-up-to-offer-free-online-courses.html?_r=1&hpw