Fwd: PhD in Privacy & Security

[Allison Dolan <adolan () MIT EDU>]

In case of interest;  Alessandro Acquisti, whose name has come up in
various contexts (e.g. phishing) is one of the core faculty.

......Allison  Dolan (617-252-1461)



Begin forwarded message:

> PhD in Privacy
> Carnegie Mellon University will establish a PhD program in usable
> privacy and security. The  National Science Foundation awarded the
> university's CyLab a five-year, $3 million grant to create the
> CyLab Usable Privacy and Security (CUPS) Doctoral Training Program.
> Carnegie Mellon Associate Professor Lorrie Cranor says the program
> will "offer PhD students a new cross-disciplinary training
> experience that helps them produce solutions to ongoing tensions
> between security, privacy and usability." Cranor is part of
> Carnegie Mellon's Institute for Software Research and its CyLab,
> which is one of the world's largest university-based cybersecurity
> education and research centers.
> Full Story