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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: April 7, 2008
Professor Seymour (Sy) Goodman, jointly appointed to the College of Computing and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, testified April 1 before the House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities. The subject of the hearing was “Holistic Approaches to Cybersecurity Enabling Network Centric Operations.” Goodman, who also is Chair of the National Research Council Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the U.S., has recently given five invited briefings on Capitol Hill. Also testifying at the April 1 hearing were: Dr. James Lewis, director and senior fellow in the Technology and Public Policy program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Mr. Franklin Kramer, distinguished research fellow at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy. For more information about the hearings and to read Goodman's testimony, please click here.