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The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) is ranked number one in information security programs among universities in the United States. The ranking was determined by a private company partially funded by the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Academic Analytics LLC. CERIAS came out on top when Academic Analytics reviewed the scholarly output of faculty members in 8,182 doctoral programs and 387 universities nationwide.

Prof. Eugene Spafford, executive director of CERIAS and professor of Computer Science stated, "It's always nice when your work is recognized. We're very pleased that the report cited work by CERIAS faculty in eight different academic departments of study as the issues of infosec are not limited to computer science and engineering alone."
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Computer Science students earned top honors at the 21st Annual Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition. Computer Science PhD candidate Murali Krishna Ramanathan, with teammates Sirsha Chatterjee (PhD candidate in Economics), Prof. Ananth Grama, and Prof. Suresh Jagannathan placed first in the Gold Division of the competition. Computer Science undergraduate John Bohlmann, along with Amit Pahwa and project team leader Daniel Poynter, took second place in the Black Division.

Purdue students competed on Tuesday, April 8 for $100,000 in cash and in-kind services in two categories -- Black and Gold Divisions. The annual competition started with 47 executive summary submissions describing innovative product and service offerings. Five undergraduate (Black Division) and five graduate (Gold Division) student-led teams then were invited to make 30-minute presentations on their business plans.

Ramanathan and SmartAn Inc. won the $40,000 first prize, along with $5,000 in legal and consulting services from Ice Miller LLC. SmartAn Inc. represents a concept for automated software testing and development based on Ramanathan's dissertation.

Bohlmann and his group ranked second in the Gold division with their Digital Literacy Contest (DLC) project. With their placing the group received a $7,000 prize. The DLC is a 30-minute contest in which scores of students compete in computer labs to search for difficult to find answers on the Internet.
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