http://www.tribstar.com/opinion/local_story_201220549.htmlBy Stephanie Salter
The Tribune-Star
July 19, 2008
TERRE HAUTE — Purdue computer science professor Eugene Spafford had the
best line about media coverage of Barack Obama’s extensive national
security seminar in West Lafayette last week:
“Good thing Angelina Jolie gave birth earlier in the week or the summit
wouldn’t have even made the press.”
“Spaf,” as he is known by his students, colleagues, associates and
fellow experts in international cyber security, is always good for a
humorous, big-picture observation that lasers in on the truth.
As director of Purdue’s CERIAS program — the Center for Education and
Research in Information Assurance and Security — he has served on
numerous national research teams, testified before Congress and advised
presidents. His name is synonymous around the world with cyber security.
Who better to summon to the invitation-only Obama security summit at
Purdue. Ah, but no one thought to invite Spaf until the night before.
“The press was told that Purdue was chosen because of the leading role
our researchers have in various areas of public safety and national
security — including the leading program in cyber security …” Spaf wrote
on his long blog entry about the summit (
http://snipurl.com/obpugs). “I
found it rather ironic that security would be given as the reason … and
yet those of us most involved with those security centers had not been
told about the summit or given invitations.”
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