SIGCSE's special projects grant program provides small grants to SIGCSE members to carry out computing education projects whose results generalize to the whole computing education community. This session is a "showcase" for five recent grant projects: a MIPS simulator extended into FPGA hardware, a study of informal learning of computing, software engineering learning modules for the visually impaired, a study of student projects in computing, and curriculum resources for computer security.

The topic of this proposed special session is security education with an emphasis on increasing the number of schools and programs that teach it. We will review the current status of security education as it is taught within the CS discipline including funding, curriculum standards and government programs. We will also address misconceptions people may have regarding teaching security and how these views hinder the development of programs and curriculum. Another area we cover which we feel is critical to increasing participation in security education is resources for teaching security including existing curriculum, expert assistance from Centers of Excellence schools and other resources. The format of the session will consist of both presentation periods with at least half the session devoted to participant question and answer. Session participants will be encouraged to share experiences and common concerns to the benefit of everyone attending.

Maintaining some minimum level of biological diversity is critical for the proper functioning of global ecosystems. While there are still many unknowns about the relationships between species within an ecosystem, a number of processes are known to affect diversity. Specifically, predator/prey relationships, competition and extinction plus spatial and temporal disturbances influence the number and distribution of species. Currently, most computer diversity strategies are implemented without any attempt to model the processes that influence diversity. We believe that a broader mapping of diversity concepts which include these processes will present a more complete view of computer security dynamics and perhaps suggest novel defensive approaches.

This panel addressed the use of computer diversity as a strategy for computer security. It is our view that there are significant knowledge gaps in the science underlying diversity as a computer defense mechanism which hinders its usefulness. These gaps include the true cost of diversity, a lack of metrics for diversity and the trade offs between diversity and other defensive strategies. We also wanted to highlight on-going diversity research from other disciplines which could potentially be applied to diversity for computer security.Four panelists were selected based on their experience with diversity within the context of computer security or other research areas. The panelists' backgrounds include biology, software reliability, security and dependable systems. Each panelist presented a statement which was discussed by NSPW participants.The discussion was lively and informative both during and after the panelists' statements and is reported in a later section of this summary.

This paper presents results of an empirical analysis of NATE (Network Analysis of Anomalous Traffic Events), a lightweight, anomaly based intrusion detection tool. Previous work was based on the simulated Lincoln Labs data set. Here, we show that NATE can operate under the constraints of real data inconsistencies. In addition, new TCP sampling and distance methods are presented. Differences between real and simulated data are discussed in the course of the analysis.

A high-level, technical summary of the Trusted Software Methodology (TSM) is provided in this paper. The trust principles and trust classes that comprise the TSM are presented and several engineering investigations and case studies surrounding the TSM are outlined. Appendices are included that highlight important areas of the TSM.