Collaborative Research: Stimulating Wide Interest in Computer Science using Computer Security

计算机科学（31）这个项目开发了一个创新的，引人入胜的，计算机安全课程称为数字线程。本课程设计的一个主要区别是，与其他安全课程相比，如在国家安全局认证的信息保障学术卓越中心开发的课程，是本课程先决条件的显着减少。参加本入门课程的学生将了解提供安全可靠的计算服务的基本原理和技术。项目目标包括：定义和满足未来技术管理人员和政策制定人员的计算机安全教育需求;确定需要教授的概念，以及如何有效地向新手教授计算机安全;探索利用服务学习吸引和吸引来自高校各个角落的学生。该项目制定了一项高中推广方案，以激发早期对计算机科学和信息技术领域的兴趣，预期成果包括：为计算机科学专业学生提供更好的安全教育，这将改善商业计算机安全市场，并刺激这些毕业生进行更多的学术研究;提高高中学生对计算机科学和信息技术领域的兴趣;并增加了女性和少数民族计算机科学学生的保留率。拟议的方法教育未来的技术政策领导者和管理人员;增加提供计算机安全课程，目前缺乏这样的产品在大学;提高认识，跨学科，需要计算机安全;并吸引学生的兴趣，从计算机科学系以外。

Computer Science (31) This project develops an innovative, engaging, computer security course called Digital Threads. A principal difference in the design of this course, when compared to other security curricula such as those developed at the National Security Agency certified Centers for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance, is the significant reduction in prerequisites for the course. Students taking this introductory course will gain an understanding of the foundational principles and technologies for providing secure and dependable computing services.The project objectives include defining and satisfying the computer security educational needs of future technology managers and policy developers; determining what concepts need to be taught, and how computer security can be effectively taught to novices; and exploring of the use of service learning to attract and interest students from all corners of colleges and universities. The project develops a high-school outreach program to spur early interest in the computer science and information technology field.Anticipated outcomes include better security education for computer science majors, which will improve the commercial computer security marketplace as well as stimulating more academic research by those graduates; increased interest, by high-school students, in the field of computer science and information technology; and increased retention of female and minority computer science students. The proposed approach educates future technology policy leaders and managers; increases offering of computer security courses at colleges that currently lack such offerings; improves awareness, across the disciplines, of the need for computer security; and attracts interest from students outside computer science departments.