US National Science Foundation: $19m security research programme

Abstract

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) plans to set up a research programme for long-term solutions to computer security problems. The NSF – an independent federal agency that supports research and education in science and engineering – expects to provide almost $19 million in funding for the programme over a period of five years. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) plans to fund an IT security research programme worth almost $19 million over a five-year period. The NSF - an independent federal agency that supports research and education in science and engineering - describes the research initiative which will be led by the University of California, Berkeley - as “a major collaborative cybersecurity project”. A new Science and Technology Center will bring together researchers with a strong background in security research from eight academic institutions along with industrial and government partners. Other participants include Cornell University, Carnegie Mellon and Stanford. Industrial partners will include Bellsouth, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and Microsoft. The consortium will be called ‘TRUST’ - Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology - and according to one of the participants, the aim of the research is to create new technologies “and perhaps even new social institutions, that will make it possible to build computer software and networks that are inherently secure”.