Collaborative Project: Enriching Security Curricula and Enhancing Awareness of Security in Computer Science and Beyond

这个项目正在建设我们国家的能力，以培养一支在计算机安全方面训练有素的劳动力。来自休斯顿大学、休斯顿市中心大学和德克萨斯南方大学的教职员工正在开发互动课件，并举办研讨会，内容涉及应用于计算机安全的最新机器学习、数据挖掘、自然语言处理和统计技术。还在开发有关无线传感器网络等安全关键领域以及关键社会隐私和安全问题的课程。正在组织讲习班，使安全课程与相关领域和主题相互融合，并就课程内容达成广泛共识。除了安全课程的互动课件外，正在开发材料，在更广泛的计算机科学课程中灌输安全主题，并在计算机科学以外的其他STEM学科中提高对信息保障的认识。一本整合了该课程的超级教科书正在实施中。通过教师工作坊，一个信息保障教育和研究学者的社区正在被创建。这个社区将在信息保障专业人员和相关领域的专业人员之间架起桥梁。这些讲习班正在培训来自不同类型机构的不同群体的教职员工。课程和其他成果可在国家科学数字图书馆以及一个具体项目的网站上找到，该网站还链接到其他地方开发的示范课程。正在对课件和研讨会进行严格的评估。

This project is building our nation's capacity to develop a workforce well trained in computer security. Faculty from the University of Houston, University of Houston-Downtown and Texas Southern University, are developing interactive courseware and conducting workshops on the latest machine learning, data mining, natural language processing and statistics techniques as applied to computer security. Courseware on security-critical domains such as wireless sensor networks, and on key societal privacy and security concerns is also being developed. Workshops are being organized to cross-fertilize security curricula with related fields and topics and to develop a broad-based consensus on courseware contents. In addition to interactive courseware for security courses, materials are being developed to infuse security topics and increase awareness of information assurance in the broader computer science curriculum and, beyond computer science, in other STEM disciplines. A hypertextbook integrating the courseware is being implemented.Through faculty workshops, a community of information assurance education and research scholars is being created. This community will build bridges between information assurance professionals and professionals in related fields. The workshops are training diverse groups of faculty from different types of institutions. Courseware and other results are available in the National Science Digital Library as well as at a project-specific web site which also links to exemplary courseware developed elsewhere. Courseware and workshops are being rigorously evaluated.