WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —A private company that measures faculty productivity has ranked Purdue’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Technology the top program in information security among universities in the nation.
“…forensic code breakers (are) working to go beyond the obvious and familiar…”
“The argument that people trust computers in other places is specious — safety-critical systems have been developed in other contexts using rigorous standards that are not applied to voting machines,” said Eugene Spafford.
Purdue Biometrics Lab featured in ScienceDaily
A study on the cleanliness of biometrics security devices by Christine Blomeke and Stephen Elliot of the Biometric Standards, Performance and Assurance Laboratory has been featured in ScienceDaily.
Spafford quoted on diversity in browser rendering engines
“Why do we want more than one layout engine? It helps to spur innovation and means that if a flaw occurs it won’t necessarily be in every browser at once. Having some different implementations of anything is a good thing,” Gene Spafford, computer science professor at Purdue University, told LinuxInsider.
The work of CERIAS researcher Marc Rogers and graduate student Matt Kiley was featured in a February 19 article in the Lafayette Journal and Courier.
CERIAS Director of Research Elisa Bertino is part of a long-term software research project with I.B.M. and six other universities.
CERIAS affiliates Ninghui Li and Mike Atallah were among the researchers whose projects were named "Best Paper" and "Best Student Paper" at the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS '06).
Professor Edward Delp was one of 24 recipients internationally of Distinguished Professorship from the Academy of Finland.