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**CPS-Ed 2013 Submission Deadline Extended**

At the request of several authors, we have given a one-time extension to the submission deadline.Papers may be submitted up to midnight PST on Friday, February 15th, 2013.

CPS-Ed 2013 Call for Participation

The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has published this report to the President and the Congress on the progress in the NIT R&D program since 2010. The current study finds that important NITRD investments responsive to the 2010 recommendations have been made, with notable progress in the multi-agency investments in "big data," NIT-enabled interaction with the physical world, health IT, and cybersecurity. Furthermore, significant progress has been made in creating infrastructure for network scaling and testbeds.

NSF and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) have a shared interest in advancing basic and applied research in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), which are systems in which physical processes are tightly intertwined with networked computing. Please see Dear Colleage Letter: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13034/nsf13034.pdf

The latest issue of The Next Wave; The National Security Agency's review of emerging technologies, centered around building a national program for cybersecurity science.

This Request For Comments (RFC) is issued by the Cyber Security and Information Assurance Research and Development Senior Steering Group (SSG) of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program. The SSG is preparing a report to provide an update on technological developments in Federal cybersecurity research and development since the release of the 2011 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan (the strategic plan).

UCL Cyber Security Research Institute is the UK's first academic research institute to put cybersecurity on a scientific basis. The institute is focused on giving organisations more evidence, to allow them to make better decisions, aiding to the development of cybersecurity as a science.

This is the site of the Science of Security Virtual Organization.

Review the results from the first SaTC ONLINE Cyber Cafe, designed to identify critical issues in cybersecurity and encourage collaborative research between computer science and the social sciences. See this link for more information.

*** MODELS 2012  - Early Registration Deadline is September 7th *** 

            ACM/IEEE 15th International Conference on 

         Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems 

Main Conference, Workshops, Tutorials, Doctoral Symposium, Educator's Symposium, 

The National Security Agency is pleased to announce the first annual Science of Security (SoS) Community Meeting on November 29-30, 2012 at the Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.

North Carolina State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Carnegie Mellon University are each receiving an initial $2.5 million in grant funds from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to stimulate the creation of a more scientific basis for the design and analysis of trusted systems.

The co-principal investigators for the NC State Science of Security Lablet are Dr. Laurie Williams, professor of computer science, and Dr. Michael Rappa, director of the Institute of Advanced Analytics and professor of computer science.

The January 2012 Special Issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE focuses on Cyber-Physical Systems. The issue includes 19 research articles covering new research and technology advances, open problems, and technical challenges. The papers are organized into three categories: theoretical foundations, small-scale applications, and large-scale applications.