University at Buffalo - The State University of New York

Published: June 15, 2006

Capen Garden Walk set for July 8

The fifth annual Samuel P. Capen Garden Walk will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 8 in the Eggertsville, University Park and University Heights areas near the South Campus.

Guides to four dozen gardens will be available at 246 Capen Blvd. on the day of the walk or online at http://www.uci.buffalo.edu—click on UCI Events—after June 30.

Past years' events have drawn more than 300 walkers.

The Capen Garden Walk is sponsored by the UB University Community Initiative (UCI), the Eggertsville Community Organization (ECO) and the Gloria J. Parks Community Center.

UCI unites UB with public and private-sector stakeholders in the City of Buffalo and in the towns of Amherst, Cheektowaga and Tonawanda in efforts to promote and revitalize neighborhoods surrounding the UB South Campus.

Intellectual property rights symposium to be held

Ever-expanding use of the Internet by individuals around the world is continually increasing cyber threats, such as the theft of intellectual property, to the United States. Intellectual property rights violations include the theft of trade secrets, copyright infringement, trademark infringement and signal theft.

To better examine the issue, the UB Center of Excellence in Information Systems Assurance Research and Education (CEISARE) will host an Intellectual Property Rights Symposium from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.

Co-sponsors of the symposium are FBI's Buffalo Cyber Task Force and InfraGard, an FBI-sponsored association of businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and others dedicated to sharing information and intelligence to prevent hostile acts against the United States.

Keynote speaker will be Leslie Bryant, chief of the Intellectual Property Rights Unit in the FBI's Cyber Division, who will discuss the strategy of the Cyber Division and emerging trends in intellectual property rights matters. Others scheduled to speak represent Microsoft Corp., the Entertainment Software Association, the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry of America and the Business Software Association.

For more information or to register for the conference, which is free of charge, go to http://www.hilbert.edu/infragard/.