June 6, 2002

Vol. 12, No. 46

The "8 1/2 x 11 News" is published each week by the Department of Public Relations. News of campus interest should be sent to
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Researchers at the School of Computer Science (SCS) are collaborating with The International Security, Trust and Privacy Alliance (ISTPA) to enhance the ISTPA's new Privacy Framework, which will be the basis for developing products and services that support current and evolving privacy regulations and business policies in domestic and international arenas. The ISTPA (www.istpa.org) is a global association of companies, institutions and technology providers working to clarify and resolve security, trust and privacy issues. SCS researchers will also work with the ISTPA to develop a Digital Privacy Handbook, which will serve as an online research reference for privacy management.

— "We're collaborating with Carnegie Mellon to leverage its multidisciplinary expertise in policy, computer science, business and software engineering while assuring a neutral, independent and unbiased approach to this critical, highly contested and politically charged domain," said ISTPA Executive Director Kevin O'Neil.

— "Executives responsible for implementing a privacy policy face the challenge of converting lofty principles into cost-effective operations," said Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Robert Thibadeau, who co-chairs the ISTPA Framework Working Group. "Lawmakers drafting privacy legislation need to understand what is technically feasible and what is manageable in terms of regulatory enforcement. IT managers need to understand how to develop appropriate technical architectures and select tools that will meet business policy and process requirements. The Digital Privacy Handbook project is essential to those wrestling with these challenges."

HUMAN RESOURCES SPONSORS ONLINE SURVEY FOR STAFF

Human Resources is sponsoring a confidential online survey at http://discovery.skillsone.com/welcomecmu.asp to understand how staff members view Carnegie Mellon as a work environment. The survey, provided by Consulting Psychologists Press (CPP), aims to identify workplace strengths and opportunities for improvement. Individual responses will be held by CPP and will remain confidential. Human Resources will provide a summary of results this fall. The survey will be available through June 14. Questions should be directed to the Human Resources Service Center at 8-4747. WORKSHOP DISCUSSES RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRIVACY AND SECURITY

Carnegie Mellon hosted Mozelle W. Thompson, one of the Federal Trade Commission's five commissioners, plus some of the nation's leading privacy and security experts, academic authorities and Internet security specialists last week at a workshop on "The Relationship between Privacy and Security." The seminar addressed the issues surrounding public perception that any increase in security comes with a corresponding decrease in privacy. Topics included how privacy and security go hand-in-hand; social, technical and usability issues; and global dimensions of privacy, economic issues and standardization. The event was one of a series of security workshops being held at Carnegie Mellon.

STUDENT HEALTH INSURANCE CONTRACT AWARDED

The contract for student health insurance has been awarded to Student Resources, a division of the MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company. Due to many claims post September 11, premium increases for the 2002-2003 school year range from 30% to 66% depending on the plan selected. Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield will provide the vision and dental benefit programs. Enrollment and benefit information will be mailed to students by July 1. Online enrollment will be available on August 1. Questions regarding health insurance should be directed to Student Health Services at 8-2157.

REMEMBER TO NOMINATE DESERVING STAFF FOR ANDY AWARDS

Nominations for this year's Andy Awards are due July 2. The university-wide staff recognition program honors staff for innovation, enthusiasm, citizenship and dedication. Nomination forms and statement of support forms are available on the Web at www.cmu.edu/andyawards. Two one-page statements of support must accompany each nomination. Award winners will be announced at a fall ceremony.

NEWS BRIEFS

• The university community is invited to a celebration honoring Douglas Dunn, dean of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (GSIA), from 4 - 6 p.m., Friday, June 14 in the Schatz Dining Room, University Center. Dunn is retiring after serving as GSIA dean for the past six years. RSVP to the Special Events Office at 8-5052 or send email to pueschel@andrew.cmu.edu.
  
  
• The Dalcroze Training Center of the School of Music will host the 27th Summer Dalcroze Eurhythmics Workshops July 8-26. The summer faculty includes Marta Sanchez, Herbert Henke, Stephen Moore and Annabelle Joseph. Sanchez and Joseph will travel to Asia in August for the Dalcroze Training Center satellite programs in Taiwan and Japan.
  
  
• Instructional Technology will be replacing 12 of the classroom Eiki data projectors during the summer. Departments wishing to purchase these data projectors for classrooms and labs should contact Gregg Mathis or Rich Davenport at 8-2430. The projectors are selling for $2,000, which includes a new lamp.

• Ignacio Grossmann, the Rudolf and Florence Dean University Professor of Chemical Engineering and head of the Chemical Engineering Department, has been named one of the world's top 15 researchers in the field of computer science by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). Grossmann will be honored during the American Society for Engineering Education conference in Montreal on June 17. ISI selected the top 15 researchers in computer science, engineering and physics based on the total number of citations to papers indexed from 1991 through November 2001. Grossmann is recognized as a world leader in the research areas of optimization of process design and operation with mixed-integer optimization techniques. His work has been published in more than 200 professional publications and he has earned numerous awards. In 2000 he was elected into the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions an engineer can achieve.
  
  
• Andreas Waechter, who earned his doctor's degree from the Chemical Engineering Department this past May, has been selected as one of three winners of the 2002 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Student Paper Prize for his paper "Global and Local Convergence of Line Search Filter Methods for Nonlinear Programming." He will receive the award during the society's 50th anniversary celebration and annual meeting, July 8-12, in Philadelphia. For more information visit the Web at www.siam.org/meetings/SIAM50.
  
  
• Psychology Professor Sheldon Cohen has been awarded the American Psychological Society's James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for his work in psycho-neuroimmunology. It is one of the highest honors conferred by the society.
  
  
• Mary L. Pretz-Lawson, assistant director of Computing Services, has been elected to a two-year term as an at-large board member of the Association for Telecommunications Professionals in Higher Education, an international non-profit educational association serving 825 colleges and universities. The association is dedicated to providing leadership in the application of telecommunications technology for higher education.
  
  
• The Board of Trustees approved several faculty promotions at its May 20 meeting. Steven Awody and Peter Vanderschraaf of the Philosophy Department were promoted to associate professor without indefinite tenure. Mimi Lerner, School of Music, was granted tenure at the rank of associate professor. Giovanni Leoni, Mathematical Sciences Department, was appointed associate professor with indefinite tenure. Kenneth B. Dunn, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, was appointed professor with indefinite tenure. Marlene Behrmann, Psychology Department, was promoted to professor from associate professor with tenure.

• Through July 31: The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation presents Order from Chaos: Linnaeus Disposes. Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) devised comprehensive, consistent schemes for classifying and describing plants and animals and for assigning two-word scientific names to all species, thus laying the foundations of modern biological taxonomy. Pages of manuscripts, plant portraits, portraits of botanists and rare books from the institute's archives, art department, and library, including the Strandell Collection of Linneana, highlight the achievements of Linnaeus in the broader context of botany over two millennia. Hours: Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - noon, and 1 - 5 p.m.; Sunday, 1 - 4 p.m. The institute is closed on Saturdays.

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