In recent months, the media have been buzzing with talk about the "Smart Grid," especially since then-President-Elect Barack Obama featured the need for new Smart Grid technology in a January 2009 speech on the economy.
The Information Trust Institute (ITI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the first recipients of scholarships under its new Illinois Cyber Security Scholars Program (ICSSP), which supports undergraduate students at Illinois who are U.S. citizens working towards careers in information trust.
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has announced a renewal of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's status as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE).