Richard DeMillo
Charlotte B. and Roger C. Warren Chair of Computing
Chair, School of Cybersecurity and Privacy
Chair’s Message | Curriculum is Paramount
Dec. 4, 2020 Dear Cybersecurity and Privacy community, You may have missed it in my message before Thanksgiving week, so it bears repeating: the whole point of a school at Georgia Tech is education. We are used to thinking about education in familiar terms: lectures, exams, grades, credits, degrees, semesters. And curriculum. I hope you noticed the emphasis on the word curriculum. It’s the…
Chair’s Message | Charting the Way Forward
Nov. 20, 2020 Dear Cybersecurity and Privacy community, Only two more weeks left this semester. It seems a little early to think about whether we are on track, but I am inspired by a conversation I just had with Georgia Tech CS 09 alumnus Kabir Barday. Kabir is the founder and CEO of OneTrust, a company he founded in 2016…
Chair’s Message | Governance and Research
Nov. 13, 2020 Dear Cybersecurity and Privacy community, We are nearing the end of the semester. The familiar cadence of academic life at Georgia Tech does not yet have much impact on the new School of Cybersecurity and Privacy. We have no courses, offer no degrees, and enroll no students. Those milestones are still weeks…
Chair’s Message | Forward Momentum, and an Election
Nov. 6, 2020 Dear Cybersecurity and Privacy community, Everything seemed to take a backseat to national politics this week, but the elections were also an opportunity for SCP and our colleagues across the campus to make important contributions to cybersecurity and privacy for voting. McCamish Pavilion served as a polling location for the election and it was completely staffed by students, one of the first locations with that distinction. A unified effort at the institute…
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Chair’s Message | Putting the Pieces for Success into Place
Oct. 30, 2020 Dear GT Cybersecurity and Privacy community, We finished our first full month as a school with a hurricane. Thanks in part to Zeta. I had planned to open this letter by saying “with a flurry of meetings and events,” but I can’t find anyone who thinks this week has been only a flurry. We are on a very fast track to have most of the critical…
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Chair’s Message | Building Community
Oct. 23, 2020 Dear GT Cybersecurity and Privacy community, Forming a new school means enabling the mechanics of an academic unit — committees, budgets, facilities, curricula, hiring faculty and staff — and all of the back-office things that make it work. Those are things that we usually only notice when something goes wrong. Otherwise…
Chair’s Message | What Does It Mean to Be a School?
Oct. 16, 2020 Dear GT Cybersecurity and Privacy community, An academic school represents Georgia Tech’s permanent commitment to students and alumni to build a community of learners and advancing innovation. My hope is that the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy will squarely focus on this vision. A top goal must be to offer degrees and other credentials that map to new careers and roles in the cybersecurity industry. The culture we embrace…
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Chair’s Message | Welcome to a New Type of Academic Unit
Oct. 9, 2020 Dear GT Cybersecurity and Privacy community, The School of Cybersecurity and Privacy (SCP) was announced this September. SCP is Georgia Tech’s newest (and in many ways its most ambitious) academic department. I have the privilege and responsibility of serving as interim chair. We will meet new students and develop new programs even as we build on existing strengths. Georgia Tech’s commitment to cybersecurity predates the term, extending back more than 20 years to the Sam Nunn Forum which…
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