Huffington Post (Nov. 2) -- CS/ISE Professor and airline security expert Sheldon Jacobson was interviewed in the wake of the Russian airliner crash in Egypt.
Related articles: WJLA-TV (ABC, Washington, DC, Nov. 11) -- Transportation Security Administration officials have acknowledged that a chaotic scene at a Miami airport recently was the result of officers not following proper procedures at a checkpoint. It was only the latest of several recent headlines that have raised doubts about the agency's effectiveness and spurred some calls for privatization of airport security. "When one overreacts...people start questioning, well, are they really doing their job," said Sheldon H. Jacobson, a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois. Also: WTVC-9 TV (Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 11).
Chicago Daily Herald (Nov. 9) -- The government is enhancing security on flights bound for the U.S. from certain foreign airports, authorities announced. U.S. fliers can take heart that the "TSA has created the most hardened security infrastructure in the world," University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign aviation security expert Sheldon Howard Jacobson said.