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New Lab Supports Info Security The W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University in Tempe has created the Privacy by Design Research Lab (PbD RL), which will be housed in the school's Center for Advancing Business through Infor- the creator of the Privacy by Design concept. "The future of privacy cannot be assured solely by compliance with regulatory frameworks," she says. The objectives of Privacy by Design, she adds, are twofold: To help indi- viduals gain control over their per- sonal data and to help businesses gain a sustainable competitive advantage. Mind Your i's and Apps mation Technology. Faculty members in the new research group will work with industry leaders to conduct research, create guidelines, and hold events to help businesses protect con- sumers' personal data and improve techniques for data protection. "Privacy assurance must ideally become an organization's default mode of operation," says Marilyn Prosch, associate professor and one of the founders of the PbD RL. One of the research group's first areas of interest will be social net- working, because Facebook and other sites are becoming the keepers of exponentially increasing amounts of users' personal data. That reality is opening up unknown territory, according to PbD RL researchers, because no one knows how long that information will remain online or who will share it with whom. The formation of the PbD RL was inspired by Ann Cavoukian, the Information and Privacy Com- missioner of Ontario, Canada, and This semester, the University of California, Irvine Extension, the continuing education arm of UC Irvine, began offering "Mobile Development for Apple iPhone and iTouch." The five-week course targets students seeking the practical skills to develop their own applications. The course provides a general introduction to mobile program- ming; compares strategies from Apple, BlackBerry, and Microsoft; discusses code development; and explores the integration of features such as touchscreen, geopositioning, sound, and Web access. Each class starts with a lecture and concludes with a lab, where stu- dents design their own applications. IBM manager Ralf Brockhaus is the course's creator and instructor. "Market insiders predict that com- panies will make a significant invest- ment in the creation of new smart- phone programs," says Dave Dimas, director of UC Irvine Extension's engineering, sciences, and informa- tion technology programs. The "Mobile Development" course, he adds, is designed to enable students to create the "next big Apple app." NEWSBYTES n TECH CENTER OPENS Last fall, JPMorgan Chase and Syra- cuse University in New York opened the JPMorgan Chase Technology Center, an on-campus facility where students and faculty will work with bank employees to participate in edu- cational experiences and internships, conduct research, and run the bank's global technology operations. Provid- ing workspaces for 125 workers, the technology center is a "paperless" office with minimal paper storage. Center projects involve cybersecurity, risk analysis, and application develop- ment for JPMorgan Chase and its lines of business. n INNOVATIONS IN INDIA The Centre for India & Global Busi- ness (CIGB) at Cambridge Univer- sity's Judge Business School in the United Kingdom has launched a beta version of indovations.net. The site provides information about the cost-effective, sustainable innovations developed in India, featuring innova- tions in five categories: business, soci- ety, science and technology, arts and culture, and energy and environment. n TAKING TECH TO MARKET Johns Hopkins University's Carey Business School in Baltimore, Mary- land, has started Innovate!, a technol- ogy commercialization program fund- ed by a National Science Foundation grant to Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland in College Park. In the 12-month pro- gram, entrepreneurs lead 15 busi- ness professionals and 15 post-docs through an evaluation of the com- mercial viability of a technology. n z BizEd MARCH/APRIL 2010 53