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University Of Arizona Awarded Cyberdefense Designation

Published: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - 5:12pm
Updated: Thursday, August 31, 2017 - 2:12pm
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The U.S. Homeland Security Department and National Security Agency have given the University of Arizona a new designation.

It's called CAE-R, and stands for Center of Academic Excellence in Cyberdefense Research.

That makes UA one of about 70 or so schools with that designation.

To explain what that means, I spoke with Hsinchun Chen, director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab in the Eller College of Management at the UA.

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