ASPIRE: An SFS Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education

跨学科(99)纽约理工大学的项目ASPIRE培养了一批SFS学者，他们能够将技术、法律、财务和行为方面整合到人们可以依赖的实用、经济高效的解决方案中；能够帮助制定与信息安全和隐私相关的法律和公共政策，以正确反映技术的能力、限制和影响。ASPIRE项目的毕业生能够在深刻理解社会、经济、行为和公共政策的影响和要求的基础上，将安全和隐私的基本原则转化为信息技术。为了确保这一愿景的成功，ASPIRE包括：跨学科的教育和研究议程；从技术、法律、道德、政策和商业角度识别和解决安全和隐私问题的培训；通过伙伴制度、季度新兵训练营和每周会议产生的社区意识；以及指导中学生和帮助非营利组织解决IT安全问题的社区服务。ASPIRE团队由来自纽约大学保利分校和纽约大学其他学校的研究人员组成，他们在计算机科学、电气和计算机工程、公共政策、法律、伦理和政治、经济和商业以及心理学等领域拥有不同的专业知识。纽约大学有大量(60%)的女学生，并希望与当地和全国性的少数族裔机构合作，招聘高素质的研究员。合作伙伴包括全国工程少数民族行动委员会、全国黑人工程师协会、西班牙裔专业工程师协会和女性工程师协会。

Interdisciplinary (99) The project ASPIRE at the Polytechnic University of New York prepares a cadre of SFS scholars who can integrate technical, legal, financial, and behavioral aspects into practical, cost effective solutions that people can depend on; who can help develop laws and public policies relating to information security and privacy that properly reflect the capabilities, limitations, and implications of technology. A graduate from the ASPIRE program is able to translate the foundational principles of security and privacy into information technologies based on a deep understanding of societal, economic, behavioral and public policy implications and requirements. To ensure success of this vision, ASPIRE includes: an inter-disciplinary education and research agenda; training to identify and solve security and privacy problems from technical, legal, ethical, policy, and business perspectives; a sense of community by means of a buddy system, quarterly boot camps and weekly meetings; and a community service to mentor middle school students and to help non-profit organizations with their IT security problems. The ASPIRE team consists of researchers from NYU-Poly, and other schools in NYU with diverse expertise in areas that include Computer Science; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Public Policy; Law, Ethics and Politics; Economics and Business; and Psychology.NYU has a large number (60%) of women students and ASPIRE partners with local and national minority institutions to recruit high quality fellows. The partners include the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, National Society for Black Engineers, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and the Society for Women Engineers.