Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon Welcomes National Cyber Experts to InfraGard Pittsburgh's 2007 Safe Schools Conference

October 4, 2007

Contact: Chriss Swaney
Carnegie Mellon
(412) 268-5776

EVENT: Mary Beth Buchanan, the U.S. attorney for Western Pennsylvania, will join a handful of national and local cyber experts to discuss ways of protecting America's youth from online predators and other cyber-bullying activities at InfraGard Pittsburgh's 2007 Safe Schools Conference, a collaboration between the FBI, the private sector and public industries connected to the nation's critical infrastructure.  

Event highlights will include a demonstration of a new interactive MySecureCyberspace portal for home users, a cyber game for children created by Carnegie Mellon's Information Networking Institute (INI) and Carnegie Mellon CyLab, and a bomb-squad robot demo by the Allegheny County Police Department. Other speakers include cybersecurity experts from the FBI, area law firms, the Pittsburgh Public School District, the Hampton School District, the Hampton Police Department and the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Child Predator Unit.

The event is sponsored by Carnegie Mellon's INI and its Master of Science in Information Security Technology and Management program, the Master of Science in Information Security Policy and Management program (MSISPM) at the university's H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Allegheny County Emergency Services and the Pittsburgh Regional Business Coalition for Homeland Security. For additional event information please see http://www.infragard-pittsburgh.org.

WHEN: 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m., Friday, Oct. 5.

WHERE: Rangos Ballrooms 1 and 2, University Center, 5000 Forbes Ave., Carnegie Mellon University.

About Carnegie Mellon: Carnegie Mellon is a private research university with a distinctive mix of programs in engineering, computer science, robotics, business, public policy, fine arts and the humanities. More than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions for real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration, and innovation. A small student-to-faculty ratio provides an opportunity for close interaction between students and professors. While technology is pervasive on its 144-acre Pittsburgh campus, Carnegie Mellon is also distinctive among leading research universities for the world-renowned programs in its College of Fine Arts. A global university, Carnegie Mellon has campuses in Silicon Valley, Calif., and Qatar, and programs in Asia, Australia and Europe. For more, see www.cmu.edu.