FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 14, 2008

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CERT Program's Nancy R. Mead to Be Recognized at IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training

Pittsburgh, PA, March 14, 2008 - Nancy R. Mead, a senior member of the technical staff in the CERT Program at the Carnegie Mellon® Software Engineering Institute (SEI), will receive special recognition at the upcoming IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET).

Mead's contributions to software engineering education and training will be acknowledged with a track devoted to her. Mead will also give a keynote speech, Software Engineering Education: How Far We've Come and How Far We Have to Go, which will trace the history of software engineering education and examine the challenges that lie ahead.

The CSEET will be held April 14-17, 2008, in Charleston, South Carolina. The SEI's Watts Humphrey will also be leading a session at the CSEET called Teaching Industrial Strength Software Engineering. For more information about the conference and to register, please visit http://www.csc2.ncsu.edu/conferences/cseet/index.php. Discounted early registration ends March 14, but standard registration continues until the conference.

About the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute CERT Program
The CERT Program is part of the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense. CERT is a center of enterprise and network security research, analysis, and training within the SEI. For more information, visit the CERT Web site at www.cert.org and the SEI Web site at www.sei.cmu.edu.

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