In the News: UI gets NSA grant to improve cyber-security
05/21/2014 - 5:19am UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS -- Some sharp minds at UI will try to change the country's cyber-security problem. The NSA gave the school a grant worth about $2 million. 18 professors and 18 graduate students will try to come up with long-term solutions to the problem. The UI is one of four universities to get the grant; Carnegie Mellon, the University of North Carolina and the University of Maryland are the other three.
Illinois receives $2.1 million from NSA to help advance security of cyber systems
05/19/2014 - 4:57am The NSA awarded $2.1 million to Illinois' Information Trust Institute to create the Science of Security for Systems Lablet. The Illinois Lablet will focus on security at the systems level, with the ultimate goal of providing methodologies for end-to-end security analysis of systems ranging from the power grid to the Internet.
In the News: TCIPG, other institutions use Minecraft environments to teach
05/01/2014 - 4:23am The Chicago Tribune consulted with Jana Sebestik, TCIPG's Education Coordinator and College of Education Assistant Director of STEM Curriculum Design, on a feature about the use of the Minecraft video game in K12 education.
ARMORE project works to create safer grid for utility companies
03/20/2014 - 4:18am Due to advancement in cyber attack methodology, many companies are being encouraged to employ thorough security measures to combat the increasingly widespread attacks. This is evident in the release of cyber security frameworks such as the NIST Cyber Security Framework that was created from Presidential Executive Order 13636. For instance, utility companies, in particular, need to go beyond just guarding their networks at the edge, and begin protecting at deeper network levels as well. The current edge-based firewall approach, as well as the lack of widely deployed security protections in existing protocols, presents problems that require new, resilient and intelligent protection schemes.
Educational program to advance electric power microgrid engineering curriculum
03/14/2014 - 6:17am If Alexander Graham Bell came back today and saw the improvement technology has made on his first telephone, he would be astonished. But according to CSL Professor Peter Sauer, if Thomas Edison came back, he wouldn't be all that surprised at what has developed in the power industry. Electric power grid utilities have been criticized for being old and decrepit and stodgy and in a way, that's true, Sauer said. So the smart grid is a way of advancing the technology of the power system by using computers, cell phones, etc. The industry is changing and whether we help it or not is up to us. We could sit back and teach the same old stuff we always teach or we could get out and push the edge.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign central to new, $320-million Digital Lab for Manufacturing
02/26/2014 - 9:05am Representatives from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign stood alongside President Obama yesterday, February 25, as he announced a new Chicago-based public-private partnership called the Digital Lab for Manufacturing.
Champaign-Urbana recognized as one of Techie.com's most promising tech hubs to watch in 2014
01/08/2014 - 7:04am Where are the country's most innovative and creative tech hubs? The answer to that question used to be easy.
Illinois receives $4.2 million to train students in cyber security
12/16/2013 - 6:47am From financial to medical information, our most private data is increasingly online -- and so are the cyber criminals who seek to sabotage the information systems that support the data. But while the number of cyber crimes has steadily risen over the years, the number of cyber security experts needed to stop them has not kept pace.
Virtual time development allows for flexibility in simulations and emulations
11/18/2013 - 10:24am The term virtual time typically conjures up images of space age time machines and Back to the Future movies, but the reality of virtual time within computer systems isn't just something of the future. Rather, it's an old concept in computer science, with new applications that researchers at the Information Trust Institute have been developing.
Navy-funded research to integrate security and real-time embedded systems
10/14/2013 - 6:37am ITI Research Scientist Sibin Mohan was recently awarded a three-year, $600,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research to work on integrating security into embedded real-time systems in a fundamental way.
In the News: Sanders speaks to Illinois Business Journal on TAC opening
10/09/2013 - 4:09am The Ameren center will provide opportunities for collaboration between the utility and Illinois cyber security researchers.
Nahrstedt to be inducted in German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
10/08/2013 - 9:03am CSL Acting Director Klara Nahrstedt, the Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor of Computer Science, will be inducted in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Germany's foremost academic society, in March 2014. Nahrstedt's selection to Leopoldina's membership is in recognition of her scientific achievements and impact on science.
Bashir delivers invited talk about digital forensics to Board of Trustees
10/02/2013 - 7:58am ITI and CSL Assistant Professor and GSLIS Assistant Professor Masooda Bashir was recently invited to give a presentation to the University of Illinois Board of Trustees at their September meeting.
Mitra receives oustanding teaching award
09/26/2013 - 8:26am Mitra has been awarded the C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award by IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu, a national recognition given each year to a single electrical engineering professor.
Security tool to help predict, prevent cyber attacks
09/13/2013 - 5:40am When designing, operating and maintaining complex cyber security systems for large companies, it is challenging to make sound security decisions that will keep the companies safe from attackers.
International Computer Science Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign lead project to improve cybersecurity of industrial control systems
09/04/2013 - 4:15am The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of almost $1.6 million to a team of cybersecurity experts from the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid (TCIPG) project. The three-year effort will focus on improving the security of critical infrastructure such as electrical grids and other utilities.
ITI researchers win NSF Frontier Award to enhance cybersecurity of clouds and mobiles in healthcare
08/26/2013 - 4:36am ITI researchers Carl Gunter, Roy Campbell and Klara Nahrstedt have been awarded a $10M NSF Frontier Award to fund a project entitled Trustworthy Health and Wellness (THaW).
UI to collaborate with Ameren in new Technology Applications Center
08/21/2013 - 5:23am Ameren Illinois today opened a new $3.3 million testing facility that will help facilitate research and development of smart grid technologies and support the state's economic development and job creation goals. The Technology Applications Center (TAC) will offer collaborative opportunities between ITI researchers and the utility.
Barth and Pilawa make a ripple in solar power
08/19/2013 - 10:04am Shade almost always creeps into conversations about solar power. What happens on cloudy days when a rooftop array isn't producing enough energy for someone's solar-equipped bungalow? What about the mobile devices that might be operated in remote, wooded research stations where consistent sunlight is never available?