NSF Advancing the Science of Cybersecurity

The National Science Foundation awards $76 in cybersecurity research. It was part of their Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program to study the scientific, engineering and socio-technical aspects of cybersecurity.

Within this award 3 projects were award $3 milion each.

• Living in the Internet of Things. L. Jean Camp, Indiana University; Tadayoshi Kohno, University of Washington.
• Verifiable Hardware: Chips that Prove their Own Correctness. Abhi Shelat, University of Virginia; Siddharth Garg, New York University; Michael Taylor, University of California, San Diego; Mariana Raykova, Yale University; Rosario Gennaro, CUNY City College.
• Computing Over Distributed Sensitive Data. Yaacov Nissim Kobliner, Harvard University; Marco Gaboardi, University of Buffalo.

NSF Press Release: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=190444&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1

News Article: http://www.executivegov.com/2016/12/nsf-awards-76m-in-cyber-study-research-grants/