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Carnegie Mellon University has signed a $3 million agreement with the Taiwanese government, establishing a new research program and educational outreach initiative. Research at the government-sponsored International Collaboration for Advancing Security Technology (iCAST-Carnegie Mellon) will focus on a wide variety of security issues, including developing software assurance tools, metrics to measure the effectiveness of intrusion-detection systems and secure video surveillance networks, according to Tsuhan Chen, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and co-director of iCAST-Carnegie Mellon. Twenty Taiwanese researchers are scheduled to visit Carnegie Mellon to begin work on a variety of security-related projects designed to significantly improve both U.S. and Asian advanced security technologies. "Signing this agreement reaffirms our ongoing relationships with Taiwan," said Carnegie Mellon Provost and Senior Vice President Mark S. Kamlet. "We will work closely with Taiwanese officials to identify key research opportunities."