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A Message from the Executive Director
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Dear <<First Name>>,
The creativity that drives cybersecurity was on full display Nov. 4-5 at the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Va.
About 560 people toured CCI’s first Cyber Arts and Design Exhibit! It was fun, inventive, and insightful and showed how cybersecurity is interwoven into our daily lives in surprising ways. Check out our Flickr account to see photos.
The five funded projects featured artists:
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Michael McDermott, assistant professor, art, George Mason University
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Kevin Moberly, program director, Game Design, Development, and Criticism, Old Dominion University
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Kate Sicchio, assistant professor, dance and media technologies, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Tanner Upthegrove, an immersive audio specialist, Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) and the Center for Human-Computer Interaction, Virginia Tech
Ben Knapp, founding director of ICAT, and Allison Schumacher, director of academic alchemy at VCU’s da Vinci Center for Innovation, helped guide this research program.
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Securing the future of cyberspace
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We were honored to host the 2022 Summit of the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine in October in Washington, D.C. CCI students presented their work in a lively poster session. The summit brought together experts to discuss securing cyberspace. A photo album captured the main highlights of the event.
The summit included:
- Bob Kahn, known as one of the “fathers of the internet”
- Kiersten Todt, chief of staff, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
- Debra Jordan, bureau chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, Federal Communications Commission
- Charles Clancy, chief futurist, MITRE Labs
- Daniel Bono, vice president, cyber mission operations, CACI International
- Tom Dingus, distinguished fellow, Virginia Tech Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science
- Eric Burger, CCI research professor of NextG security
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INNOVATE Cyber 2023
is open for applications!
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Students from across Virginia can learn real-world skills in the successful INNOVATE Cyber program. The application process is open now. I encourage students from Virginia’s colleges and universities to apply. Every year, I’m impressed by the projects. Learn more and apply.
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Paper abstracts due Jan. 20, 2023,
for CCI Symposium 2023
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Planning is well underway for the annual CCI Symposium, our all-hands meeting, held on April 17-18 in Richmond, Virginia. CCI researchers, who want to present a paper, must submit an abstract by January 20, 2023. You’ll be notified by Jan. 27 if your abstract is accepted.
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Smart farm cybersecurity is an international concern
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Universities from the CCI Southwest Virginia Node welcomed representatives from the Brazilian National Service for Industrial Training (SENAI) Innovation Institute this month to learn more about collaboration opportunities in smart farm cybersecurity.
“The Brazilian team was very interested in CCI projects — especially ones that involved 5G, smart farm, and IoT security,” said Prem Uppuluri, a Radford University professor and director of the Center for Information Security. “We knew that they would be interested in connecting with the Virginia Tech Center for Advanced Innovation in Agriculture, which is also part of the CCI community.”
Uppuluri and his Radford team are headed to the Pernambuco area of Brazil in January to talk to startups.
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The active fall semester is drawing to a close, and I want to take the opportunity to wish everyone a great Thanksgiving! In CCI, we have much to be thankful for, including the CCI community’s creativity and dedication to expanding the cyber frontier.
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Luiz DaSilva
Executive Director
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