AFCEA (Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association) Educational Foundation

Department of Homeland Security: Who Does What, With What, For What? Dates: Jun-22-2011 - Jun-24-2011

The AFCEA Educational Foundation is an independent, non-profit, tax-exempt public charity dedicated to providing educational opportunities and assistance for people engaged in information management, communications and intelligence efforts and fostering excellence in education particularly in the hard science disciplines of Command and Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) and Information Resource Management (IRM).

ASIS International

• Classroom Programs - 20 industry-specific programs annually
• Certification Review Courses
• Webinars
• Online Courses
• Wharton/ASIS Program for Security Executives
• Business Concepts for the Effective Security Manager
• Effective Management for Security Professionals
• ASIS Foundation Scholarships and Awards
• Continuing Education
• Education for Military and Law Enforcement PractitionersConferences 

Annual Seminar - 150 sessions (approximate)                 European Conference - 44 sessions (approximate)

Asia-Pacific Conference - 25 sessions (approximate)      Middle East Conference - 33 sessions (approximate)

California University of Pennsylvania - Master of Science in Legal Studies: Homeland Security Track

Master of Science in Legal Studies: Homeland Security Track
The threat of terror and the posture to withstand its onslaught can only be described as a very serious business. Trained, educated and intellectually sophisticated specialists compose the front lines of defense in the ongoing resistance to those forces, which undermine the American way of life. Day to day, dedicated civil servants serve the needs of so many so often that the additional variable of terrorism cannot always be the primary consideration.

The homeland security online program delivers graduate education with three primary objectives in mind:

• Develop strategies, plans and programs to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and reduce America's vulnerability to terrorism.
• Build the organizational arrangements needed to strengthen homeland security, including local/state/federal, civil-military and interagency cooperation.
• Help government leaders make immediate as well as longer-term improvements in homeland security preparedness, by having our graduates conduct policy development work on real world, actionable opportunities for progress.

Computer Vision at the University of Dundee School of Computing

 Research topics include:

- Analysis of human motion
- Vision for assistive and healthcare technologies
- Interacting with image archives
- Computer vision for the built environment

Idiap Research Institute – Switzerland - Independent Research Institution in Information Technology

Non-profit foundation specialized in the management of multimedia information and man-machine multimodal interactions. Idiap was founded in 1991 by the town of Martigny, the state of Valais, EPFl (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), the University of Geneva and Swisscom, and is autonomous but connected to EPFL by a joint development plan. Idiap’s main research areas; perceptual and cognitive systems, social / human behavior, biometric person recognition, information interfaces and presentation, machine learning information, scalable inference and decision systems. 2010 Budget 9 million; 2 professors, 13 permanent and senior researchers,15 postdoc,38 PhD Students,14 support & development engineers, 8 internships (average/year) Scientific activities; 39 research programs leadership role in 9 research consortiums, 188 scientific publications, 3 doctoral theses.

IEEE Certified Biometrics Professional® (CBP) program.

• enhance professional credibility;
• increase opportunities for career advancement;
• set you apart from your peers;
• demonstrate commitment to the profession;
• result in greater respect from employers; and
• increase confidence on the job.

Long Island University's Homeland Security Management Institute

Long Island University's Homeland Security Management Institute offers an accredited, 15-credit Advanced Certificate in Homeland Security Management as well as a 36-credit Master of Science in Homeland Security Management, both delivered fully online. These two programs are available to professionals working in law enforcement, Emergency Management, the military, fire fighting or HazMat operations, corporate or private security, the intelligence community, or any other Homeland Security field, as well as to those who aspire to pursue management careers in various homeland security fields. Designated by Act of Congress as a DHS Homeland Security Center of Excellence

Security Industry Association (SIA) Education and Training

SIA professional and technical programs include project management and central station operator training, online courses, and skills assessment tools for members and their channel partners.

University at Albany - Faculty of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics offers full and part-time M.S., M.P.H., Dr.PH and Ph.D. degree programs in the areas of epidemiology and/or biostatistics. In addition, we have a new and exciting area of Bioinformatics in which students can take electives.

University of Florida Forensic Science Masters Degree

University of Florida Forensic Science Masters Degree is the world’s largest forensic science program, with over 500 graduates. This MS program has earned the Award of Excellence Winner in Distance Education from the American Distance Education Consortium in 2006 and program director Dr. Ian Tebbett, Ph.D., was awarded the 2010 Outstanding Leadership Award by the U.S. Distance Learning Association.
 

University of Wisconson - M.S. in Biometry

The Program is interdisciplinary, providing formal coursework in statistics and biology, consulting experience, and supervised research combining the two areas. Students completing the Program will understand biological processes and have the ability to apply and extend a broad range of statistical concepts and techniques to biological problems. This integration of statistics and biology is the distinguishing feature of the Program. The Biometry Program is distinct from the M.S. Statistics Program in its interdisciplinary emphasis and corresponding reduced depth in statistics. (Students interested in training with statistical consulting as the primary focus should apply for the M.S. in Statistics through the Statistics Department.)

Virginia Commonwealth University - Department of Biostatistics

The Department of Biostatistics at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) offers the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biostatistics. It is part of the School of Medicine on the university's Medical College of Virginia (MCV) Campus. The Schools of Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy are also located on this campus. While committed to excellence in biostatistical research and in its graduate program, the department also collaborates in biomedical research with other departments on the MCV campus. Its faculty are nationally recognized for their biostatistical work in the areas of clinical trials, pharmacology and toxicology. The department continues to emphasize scholarship and graduate education, and its graduates are in demand for jobs throughout the country in government, academia and the private sector.

West Virginia University - Bachelor of Science in Biometric Systems

Biometric identification is a highly interdisciplinary field mixing traditional engineering with the forensic sciences. As a result, the engineering design and development of biometric systems requires knowledge of the biometric as well as the engineering disciplines. Designers work with the physics of the sensor to obtain measurements of the biometric defined by human physiology. Signal and image processing techniques are applied to the sensor signal to extract features usable for identification. Databases combined with artificial intelligence enable rapid storage, retrieval, and pattern matching while decision theory supports the mechanisms whereby systems can provide the needed identification results. Underlying the entire system is a foundation of statistics and mathematics which provides the language for implementing and evaluating biometric technology and systems.