Carnegie Mellon's Information Networking Institute (INI) celebrated 15 years of innovation and excellence in education on April 14, 2005. The institute was created in 1989 as a cooperative endeavor of the College of Engineering , the School of Computer Science , the Heinz School and the Tepper School of Business .
Under current Director Dena Haritos Tsamitis, the INI has expanded its programs, increased enrollment and outpaced the competition with a successful mix of internship programs in a variety of industry sectors, including telecommunications, cybersecurity and information technology.
At the celebration, Carnegie Mellon University announced that it will partner with i-SAFE America , a nonprofit foundation focused on making students cybersafe to expand outreach of MySecureCyberspace into i-SAFE's nationwide SAFE Schools Education Initiative and Outreach Campaign.