Kurose and Towsley in ground-breaking consortium

Distinguished Professors Jim Kurose and Don Towsley are involved in the newly formed IBM-led International Technology Alliance (ITA) in Network and Information Sciences. The consortium, funded by the U.S. Army Research Labs and the U.K. Ministry of Defense, will undertake a research program exploring advanced technology for secure wireless and sensor networks, over a potential 10 year period, with a value of up to $135.8 million.

The ITA brings together leading U.S. and U.K. commercial and academic organizations in four interconnected areas of research: network theory; security across a system of systems; sensor information processing and delivery; and distributed coalition planning and decision making. The program will provide open collaborative research cutting across national, institutional and technical area boundaries, and, with 25 partner institutions from academia and industry, is one of the world’s largest collaborative technology programs.