Dr. Ram Dantu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, will chair the VoIP security workshop on December 3, 2004, in conjunction with Globecom, an IEEE conference to be held in Dallas at the Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion Hotel. The event will facilitate the exchange of key issues and solutions between universities, government agencies, service providers and equipment manufacturers, and may result in the publication of a book on the topic.

Colonel Gibson, Project Director of DARPA, will deliver the keynote speech: "Protecting the Telecom Infrastructure." Dr. Dantu and Prakash Kolan from UNT will present "Detecting SPAM in VoIP Networks."