TRUST Summer Study Programs
Ruzena Bajcsy, UC Berkeley
Kristen Gates, UC Berkeley
TRUST NSF Site Visit, Berkeley, March 19-20, 2007
Summer Academic Programs
TRUST summer programs provide students with a rich academic and research
experiences. BFOIT computer science with college success preparation for
middle and high school students. SUPERB-IT and SIPHER are undergraduate
research experience in preparation for graduate school. WISE and Trustworthy
Computer Curriculum are advanced topics seminars directed at graduate, post
doctorate and junior faculty that promote cross-disciplinary research, new
course development and faculty promotion and retention.
Ruzena Bajcsy & Kristen Gates
TRUST NSF Site Visit, Berkeley, March 19th – 20th, 2007
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WISE at UC Berkeley 2006
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Women’s Institute in Summer Enrichment (WISE): A one-week
residential summer program in 2006 at Berkeley campus to bring
together women (but it is not restricted to women only!) from all
disciplines interested in TRUSTed systems
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Format has professors from across the country come to Berkeley
to teach power courses in several disciplines, including computer
science, economics, law, and electrical engineering.
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Speakers included: Feigenbaum (Yale), Irvine (Naval
Postgraduate School), Wright (Stevens), Xue (Vanderbilt),
Fahmy (Purdue), Lerner (Berkeley Law), Wing (CMU), Sastry,
Raghavan (Berkeley).
Ruzena Bajcsy & Kristen Gates
TRUST NSF Site Visit, Berkeley, March 19th – 20th, 2007
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Recruitment and Composition 2006
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Tuition fee $1,500
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20 Fellowships + travel expenses
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20 participants was selected from a nationwide
applicant pool of young women and men who have
demonstrated outstanding academic talent
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19 out of the 20 participants in 2006 were women
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13 graduate students (11 PhD + 2 MD), 4 Asst. Profs.,
3 Assoc. Profs. 2 Af Am + 1 Hispanic Am.
Ruzena Bajcsy & Kristen Gates
TRUST NSF Site Visit, Berkeley, March 19th – 20th, 2007
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WISE 2007 at UC Berkeley
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WISE 2007 will follow the same format as 2006
One-week residential program on the Berkeley campus
20 participants selected from a nationwide applicant pool
Tuition $1,500
20 Fellowships + travel expenses
Speakers have cross-disciplinary emphasis: computer
science, economics, law, policy and electrical engineering
Speakers: Terry Benzel (USC), Deborah Estrin (UCLA),
Stephanie Forrest (U. of New Mexico), Jennifer Hou
(U. of Illinois), Priya Narasimhan (CMU), Diana Smetters
(PARC), Dawn Song (CMU), Yuan Xue (Vanderbilt),
Deirdre Mulligan (UCB), Maryanne McCormick (UCB),
Ruzena Bajcsy (UCB)
Ruzena Bajcsy & Kristen Gates
TRUST NSF Site Visit, Berkeley, March 19th – 20th, 2007
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WISE 2007 Program Schedule
Ruzena Bajcsy & Kristen Gates
TRUST NSF Site Visit, Berkeley, March 19th – 20th, 2007
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Summer Program for Smith Undergraduate:
Discovering Sensor Networking
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Summer research experience for Smith College undergrads.
One-week residential program
20 Fellowships
Use of TRUST learning materials
Learning Modules: Prominent researchers from universities in
the northeast will give tutorials on telecommunications,
networking, and the growing role of sensor technology in industry
and national defense.
Discovery Module: Hands-on experiments with sensors and
wireless sensor platforms.
Graduate Experience Module: Tour research laboratories on
the Cornell campus, meet and talk with graduate students.
Information session with the graduate admissions office of the
Cornell College of Engineering.
Ruzena Bajcsy & Kristen Gates
TRUST NSF Site Visit, Berkeley, March 19th – 20th, 2007
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Workshops, Symposium, Communities…
TRUST workshops, symposium and learning communities cross a variety
of subjects and domains but all a principal theme– security. The crossdisciplinary symposium Unblinking explored issued of security camera
technology and policy issues through the lens of artist, engineers, lawyers
and policy makers. TIPPI, in its 3rd year, is a community of academics and
industry professionals seeking answers to the problems associated with
information security and password protection. Information Assurance
Capacity Symposium is a learning community of academics all alumni of
the CMU Information Assurance Capacity Building Program.
Ruzena Bajcsy & Kristen Gates
TRUST NSF Site Visit, Berkeley, March 19th – 20th, 2007
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EL Alliance (2007)
Empowering Leadership: Computing
Scholars of Tomorrow Alliance (EL Alliance)
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Increase retention of minority undergraduate
students from freshmen year through the Ph.D.
at tier one research Universities.
Program Leadeship: Richard Tapia of Rice
University, Roscoe Giles of Boston University,
Ruzena Bajcsy UC Berkeley and Cynthia
Lanius of Drexel University.
Program kickoff meeting March 14-15, 2007
Ruzena Bajcsy & Kristen Gates
TRUST NSF Site Visit, Berkeley, March 19th – 20th, 2007
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Summer Immersion and Internship
Resulting from the Silicon Valley Industry-Academic group collaboration,
the Summer Experience Colloquium and Research in Information
Technology (SECuR-IT) is an innovative learning experience for graduate
level (Masters and Ph.D.) students in computer security topics.
The program framework includes:
• Learning community of 20 students at San Jose State University
• Seminars in Computer Security at Stanford University
• Industry experience with Silicon Valley technology firms
-- Symantec, Xilinx, Visa, SUN, Cisco, Yahoo
Ruzena Bajcsy & Kristen Gates
TRUST NSF Site Visit, Berkeley, March 19th – 20th, 2007
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CONCLUDING REMARKS
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We have several very successful outreach
programs to build on: SUPERB, BFOIT,
SIPHER, HBCU/HSI capacity building
program, WISE, EL Alliance …
We will increase their offerings and scope at
the partner campuses.
More evangelizing and recruiting at national
level meetings.
SJSU will reach into the Cal state and
community college community
Ruzena Bajcsy & Kristen Gates
TRUST NSF Site Visit, Berkeley, March 19th – 20th, 2007
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