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Promoting Security and Privacy in the 21st Century




Dr. Andrew Burt, Co-Director

Dr. Burt (Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science) is a Research Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Denver (DU) specializing in computer and network security. He was the editor of the Unix Security Newsletter (a precursor to CERT). He is the founder of the world's first free Internet Service Provider (Nyx.net), which presented numerous security challenges by allowing open access in a non-open access environment. During 1997-2002 he co-founded a company to automatically extract newspaper articles from hundreds of top-tier newspapers and provide them to Internet portals along with zip-code targeted advertising. He chairs the Electronic Piracy Committee for SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc.), which he has led to prominence in the fight against e-piracy. He has made security enhancements to Unix kernels, has three patents pending and has several papers published and forthcoming on security related matters.

Dr. Ramki Thurimella, Co-Director

Dr. Thurimella has over twenty years of experience designing algorithms, especially graph algorithms as they apply to connectivity. Dr. Thurimella is an author or a co-author of several best-known algorithms on graph connectivity. In addition to these academic projects, he has hands on product-development experience in the software industry. This includes his work (1999-2001) at Petroleum Place, Inc., where he was responsible for the development and deployment of two auction engines: a real-time streaming engine based on Java networking and an http-based auction. Both these applications are in production. At DU, Dr. Thurimella regularly teaches courses on computer security, programming languages, algorithms, object oriented programming, and Java. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, master's and doctoral degrees in computer science.

Dr. Roger Salters, Co-Director, Center for Digital Security Education

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
PhD, University of New Mexico
Specialties include robotics, controls and systems.