Contact: Sammy McDavid
STARKVILLE, Miss.--The Center for Computer Security Research at Mississippi State is announcing three March presentations by internationally prominent speakers.
Part of the center's 2008 spring Distinguished Computer Security Lecture Series, all programs are free and open to the public. Each begins at 8:30 a.m. in 103 Butler Hall.
Located at the intersection of George Perry Street and Barr Avenue, Butler is home of the center and the university's department of computer science and engineering.
The presentors, their topics and specific dates include:
--Monday, [March 3], Shari L. Pfleeger of the RAND Corp., on "I'll Buy That! Cyber Security in the IT Marketplace."
--Wednesday [the 5th], Seymour "Sy" Goodman of the Georgia Institute of Technology, on "Towards a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace."
--The 24th, James R. Gosler of the U.S. Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratories, on "The Digital Dimension."
Pfleeger is a senior researcher at RAND, one of the nation's oldest "think tanks." She predominately focuses on policy issues to help government and other organizations understand whether and how information technology supports their missions and goals.
Goodman is a professor of international affairs and computing at Georgia Tech's Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the College of Computing. International developments in information technologies and related issues are his primary research areas.
Gosler began work at Sandia in 1979, but left in 1996 to become the Central Intelligence Agency's first director of Clandestine Information Technology Office. He returned to Sandia in 2001 as a senior scientist supporting national information operations, information assurance, critical infrastructure, and terrorism initiatives.
For more information on the March programs, contact center director Ray Vaughn at 662-325-7450 or Vaughn@cse.msstate.edu.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.