The Institute on Facebook!

Join the Institute of Technology on Facebook! Become a fan and post your own pictures, videos, and comments. Post info about an upcoming student org meeting, pictures from your latest trip to Chalet Bowl, cool stuff you have been learning at your internship, an invitation for getting down to serious business on Rock Band or Halo, or the latest idea you have been pondering.

Alumni of the Institute should join too and let us know what life is like after graduation!

Institute Web site updated!

Hi all! Please take a look at our updated web site for the Institute of Technology! We have made several additions/changes and basically jazzed up the site! What do you think? We plan to do more but any input would be appreciated.

Joe

Local and Regional Information Assurance and Cybersecurity Events

Mark your calendars for a couple of upcoming events if you have an interest in computer and information security. The first is coordinated and produced by and the second is being participated in by the Grey Hat Group, a student organization at the University of Washington, Tacoma dedicated to promoting awareness, education, and research into computer security. The event the group is presenting, now in its second year, is the Northwest Security Symposium. Knows as NWSec, the event features student, academic, and professional presentations on topics ranging from cryptography to computer forensics.

The conference is scheduled for May 7th and 8th, 2008 and will provide a broad perspective and in-depth technical sessions based on leading information assurance and cyber security topics. This event invites local businesses, military personnel, and Fortune 500 corporations to interact with each other, increase awareness of critical issues, and view important academic and industry presentations.

Presentations will be given in the Carwein Auditorium of the Keystone building on the UWT Campus and has a great array of speakers from Dickie George to Kirk Bailey. Check it out on their web site.

The Grey Hats are also competing in the upcoming 1st Pacific Rim Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition on April 26 – 27, 2008 in conjunction with the Center for Information Assurance & Cybersecurity, University of Washington. The event will happen on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond and is similar to the great event that the group held with West Point and Fort Lewis last year.

Hello

Hi all!! My name is Joe Contris and I am the new Program Administrator with the Institute of Technology. My background is in management and behavioral health. I am guitarist that plays around Tacoma in a band called Near the Beat. Check out our Myspace if you would like:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=247186172

It is great to be a memeber of the UW family!

Joe

UPE at UWTECH

Nearly two dozen students, alumni and faculty at the Institute of Technology were recently inducted into the new UW Tacoma chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), the international honor society for computing science, engineering and technology.

“Joining UPE is an honor,” said Associate Professor George Mobus, a longtime member of the organization. “Having UPE here at UW Tacoma is a recognition of the quality of our program and of our students.”

UPE’s mission is to recognize academic excellence at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in the computing and information disciplines. A member of the Association of College Honor Societies, UPE is the only international honor society in the computing and information field.

The charter’s first initiates are: Students Amelia Annest, Alan Boulet, Craig Deitering, Alan Fowler, Pat Kuhlman, Randy McCoy, Michael Munsey, Craig Niyama, Kyle Shanafelt, Erik Sherbon, Ruslan Slobodyanik, Michael Spiz and Jonathan Veilleux. Also initiated were alumni Iyad Alaqrabawi, Daniel Blair, Robert Bunge and Kristen Shinohara, Assistant Professor Dan Zimmerman and Institute of Technology Director Orlando Baiocchi.

The Institute of Technology was launched in 2001 to cultivate a highly educated and knowledgeable workforce to support the state's high-tech sector and spur economic development in the South Sound region. The Institute offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Engineering and Systems and Computing and Software Systems. To learn more about the Institute of Technology, visit www.insttech.washington.edu.

Security Workshop Tomorrow

This Saturday, February 2, at 11:00 in CP105, The Grey Hat Group is putting on a workshop entitled

"Passwords and Bump Keys--How Safe Are You, Really?"

There will be some demos of password auditing/recovery tools (I didn't say
cracking!), as well as a demo of the strength of a physical security device.

All interested people are welcome.

The GreyHat Group at UWT is a student organization at the University of Washington, Tacoma, organized by Computing and Software Systems students, whose mission is to research all aspects of computer security, including network security and information assurance and share that information with the regional community.

Membership is open to any UWT Student who has an interest in computer security regardless of major. Prior knowledge of computers is NOT required for membership. Knowledge is gained through attending meetings and events, talking to other members, and trying things out for yourself.

Cyber Defense Workshop at the UWT

A Cyber Defense workshop will be held at UWT on Saturday, November 17, from 10:00 to 1:00. Anyone is welcome to attend--students, faculty, staff, friends, relatives, anyone interested in the technical aspects of network security. This workshop will be a Network Mapping Challenge.

The group will start in the Embedded lab, Cherry Parks 206D.

Linux experience helpful, but not required. Participants who already have network mapping software on their laptops, will be able to use their own machine.

For more information contact Don McLane (dmclane@u.washington.edu)