>From Edupage via Dave Farber's "Interesting People" list: The National Security Agency on Tuesday announced that seven universities had been selected as Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education. NSA, which has broad influence on U.S. encryption policy, is responding to a Clinton administration directive to seek non-governmental research and information on critical infrastructure issues. NSA says the centers will become "focal points for recruiting, and may create a climate to encourage independent research in information assurance." The seven universities--James Madison, George Mason, Idaho State, Iowa State, Purdue, Idaho, and the University of California at Davis--will be formally named at an IBM information security systems conference on May 25-29. (EE Times Online 05/12/99)
