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May 07. 2012
ITI's Han Honored for Teaching Excellence
Jiawei Han has received the Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching.
May 07. 2012
A Minute with Jay Kesan, Expert on Technology Law
Jay P. Kesan, a professor of law and ITI researcher, spoke with the Illinois News Bureau's business and law editor, Phil Ciciora, about what steps the government should take to improve the cybersecurity infrastructure in the U.S.
Apr 25. 2012
Qatar Funds Research to Coordinate Networked Vehicles
ITI researchers Petros Voulgaris and Dušan Stipanović have received a 3-year grant from the Qatar National Research Fund to develop methods for safely coordinating networked vehicles.
Apr 23. 2012
Nahrstedt's QoS Routing Achievements Honored by IEEE Computer Society
ITI's Klara Nahrstedt has been named the winner of a prestigious IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award for 2012. 
Mar 27. 2012
Deadline to Apply for ICSSP Scholarships Extended to April 15
Following student requests, applications for ITI's ICSSP undergraduate scholarships starting with the Fall 2012 semester will now be accepted through April 15, 2012. See the Illinois Cyber Security Scholars Program (ICSSP) page for details or to apply! 
Mar 21. 2012
ITI's Mitra Wins AFOSR Young Investigator Award
ITI professor Sayan Mitra has just won a prestigious Young Investigator award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). Mitra's winning proposal was entitled "Verification Engines for Hybrid Networks."
Mar 20. 2012
Langbort Receives NSF CAREER Award for Information Cloaking Project
ITI researcher Cedric Langbort has just received an NSF CAREER Award that will support the design of control algorithms that will manage the flow of information made available to a potential hacker.
Mar 20. 2012
Best Paper Award for Work on Regenerating Codes
A paper on reliable storage co-authored by ITI professor Brighten Godfrey received a Best Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Data Storage. The work described in the paper created a new sub-area of coding theory called "regenerating codes," which can make reliable storage in data centers more efficient. 
Mar 20. 2012
Researchers to Improve Efficiency, Reliability of Networked Systems
Networked systems often are not as efficient or reliable as they could be, largely because they are informationally decentralized, comprise many nodes carrying disparate information, and are subject to constraints on energy, data storage and computational capabilities. ITI researchers and their collaborators aim to address the problem by developing a general theoretic framework and tools to help optimize these sensing systems. 
Mar 20. 2012
ITI's Roth Named ACM Fellow for 2011
ITI's professor Dan Roth was named a 2011 ACM Fellow for his “contributions to machine learning and natural language processing.”
Dec 08. 2011
ITI's Sarita Adve Named an IEEE Fellow
Sarita Adve has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She was selected for her "contributions to shared memory semantics and parallel computing." Her research in computer architecture and systems, parallel computing, and power and reliability-aware systems focuses on a full-systems view and is notable for its multidisciplinary collaborations. 
Nov 30. 2011
Apply now for a Fall 2012 ICSSP undergrad scholarship from ITI!
Applications for ITI's ICSSP undergraduate scholarships starting with the Fall 2012 semester will be accepted through April 2, 2012. See the Illinois Cyber Security Scholars Program (ICSSP) program page for details or to apply!
Nov 28. 2011
ITI's Shaw: Cloud Computing a Game-Changer for Business
Cloud computing is a game-changer for businesses, which now face the choice of adapting to the demand for ubiquitous access to data or losing customers to tech-savvy competitors, says an ITI expert in e-business strategy and information technology management.
Oct 31. 2011
Science of Security "Lablet" Established at the University of Illinois
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, and North Carolina State University are each receiving an initial $1 million in grant funds from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to stimulate the creation of a more scientific basis for the design and analysis of trusted systems.
Oct 10. 2011
2011 Winners of ITI Undergraduate Scholarships Announced
The Information Trust Institute (ITI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the 2011 recipients of scholarships under its Illinois Cyber Security Scholars Program (ICSSP), which supports undergraduate students at Illinois who are U.S. citizens working towards careers in information trust.
Jun 27. 2011
Active Self-Defense Strategy Best Deterrent Against Cyber-Attacks
ITI professor Jay P. Kesan warns that an active self-defense regime, which he terms "mitigative counterstriking," is a necessity in cyberspace.
Jun 22. 2011
Valdes to Direct "Smart Grid @ Illinois" Research
Alfonso Valdes, a longtime leader of national cyber security efforts in the electricity sector, is set to become the first managing director of the expanding "Smart Grid @ Illinois" research efforts housed in the Information Trust Institute (ITI) at the University of Illinois.
Jun 20. 2011
Hacking the Lights Out: The Computer Virus Threat to the Electrical Grid
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN ARTICLE: 6/20/11
Jun 16. 2011
2011 ITI Summer Internship Winners Announced
Twenty-one undergraduate students from around the world have been selected to receive research internships from the Information Trust Institute (ITI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for the summer of 2011.
Jun 15. 2011
Can Health Privacy, Electronic Medical Records Coexist?
MILLER-MCCUNE ARTICLE: 6/15/11