The “What would you fight for?” commercial played in the opening home football game this season featured the CDT cybercrime internship program (https://fightingfor.nd.edu/2019/fighting-to-uncover-the-evidence/). The CDT Director (Chuck Crowell) and colleagues (Jarek Nabrzyski, CRC Director, Mitch Kajzer, St, Joe County Cybercrimes Unit Director and CDT prof., and Eric Tamashasky, Chief Deputy Prosecutor for St. Joe County and CDT prof.) just won a million dollar grant from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to build upon and enhance this effort.  The grant will span a two year period and will support a project entitled "Improving Cybercrime Knowledge and Forensic Skills Through a Unique University-Law Enforcement Partnership."…

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Four CDT students recently passed the Magnet Certified Forensics Examiner test in Cyber Crimes.  This certification has a failure rate of approximately 75%. These students prepared for this rigorous test  by taking the CDT courses in Intro and Advanced Digital Forensics and then by working in the Cyber Crimes unit. …

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University of Notre Dame senior Gregory Serapio-García has been selected for the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a full-time postgraduate degree at the University of Cambridge in England.

A psychology major and Idzik Computing and Digital Technologies Program…

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FIRST PLACE

VOTEBUDDY

A WEBSITE AND APPLICATION THAT GIVES VOTERS INFORMATION ON LOCAL, STATE, AND NATIONAL ELECTIONS.

Audrey Kurz, First Year of Studies, Liberal Studies, College of Arts and Letters, now a CDT student
Kelly Moran, First Year of Studies, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering 

See this link…

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The unit recently relocated to Hammes Mowbray Hall, home of the Notre Dame Security Police department, to provide the county with expanded working space and greater access to a larger group of student interns. The Notre Dame students chosen this year are studying in a variety disciplines including economics, political science, and film, television and theater, as well as computer science and information technology management. Four of the students also have a minor in the Arts and Letters interdisciplinary Idzik Computing and Digital Technologies Program.

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Now in its third year, the College of Arts and Letters' Idzik Computing and Digital Technologies Program is helping students supplement their education with technological and programming skills. The program was endowed and renamed this year in honor of its generous benefactors, Paul and Ruth Idzik. Designed to help students obtain skills needed for success in the modern digital world, the CDT minor can be extremely appealing for prospective employers who are already attracted to the communication, organization, and analytical skills honed through the liberal arts.

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Says an article in the Harvard Business Review, July-August 2017.     …

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CDT is organizing a Fall, 2017 Speaker Series as a precursor to a new required 1-credit professionalization seminar, entitled “Technology as a Profession.”  This new professionalization seminar course will be offered each semester starting in Spring, 2018 and does not have pre-requisites.  All CDT students who declare the minor after August 22, 2017 must take the new seminar once prior to their graduation.  This course, along with the two required programming courses, will constitute the core course requirements for CDT.   …

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The CDT program announced a new internship program in Cyber Safety and Security.  This program is jointly sponsored by the CDT program and St. Joseph County Law Enforcement.  Interns will work along side County Cyber Crime Unit personnel to identify, investigate, and prosecute cybercriminals.  The application process for this internship is now open.  Please see the document at the link below for more details and information about this internship program.…

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