Prof. Sean Smith recently talked to USA Today, pointing out that many of the same security vulnerabilities exploited in phones, TVs and computers outlined by WikiLeaks apply to IoT devices.
Read the full story over at USA Today.
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Dartmouth CS is a co-sponsor for HackDay II, which will take place on April 8th, 2017. From the website:
[more]HackDay is a 12-hour learning-based, beginner focused event. It’s a great way to get a taste of our traditional 24-hour hackathon, as well as gain new skills as a beginner developer! We’re dividing the prizes into beginner and intermediate levels, so everyone has a chance to win something! We’re also excited to...
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Back in the early 2000s, the internet had a problem with child pornography. For its part, the United States hadn’t anticipated the explosion of illegal images that had come online in the early days of the internet. Tracking these illegal activities became much more difficult, and removing all trace of the images from the World Wide Web seemed nearly impossible. So...
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Congratulations to Jessica Fan '17, who received the Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mention for PhD-granting institutions. This award program recognizes undergraduate students in North American universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.
Jessica Fan worked together with Professor Tom Cormen on the...
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From Dartmouth News:
Hany Farid, the Albert Bradley 1915 Third Century Professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
NAI fellow status is granted to academic inventors “who have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in...
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Be it sand, snow or a bowl of spices, rendering massive aggregations of granular materials is a challenge for animators. A new method developed by researchers from Disney Research, ETH Zurich and Dartmouth's very own Prof. Wojciech Jarosz, proposes a method to handle this problem with unprecedented accuracy and computational efficiency. The technique makes it possible to show fine detail - the varying shapes and colors of grains and glints of...
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Since 2012, the Dartmouth Computer Science department has been an academic sponsor of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. In 2016, Dartmouth was well represented by 16 undergraduate women and Professor Tom Cormen. Among the many who stopped by our booth were several alumni of our undergraduate and graduate programs.
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In the aftermath of the Oct 21 Internet attacks, the New York Times writes of "A New Era of Internet Attacks Powered by Everyday Devices." One observer noted that society needs an "Unsafe at Any Speed" for this new era of the Internet of Things. Fortunately, Dartmouth Professor Sean Smith (Director of ISTS) has just written that—building on the work he and Prof Sergey Bratus have done on the smart grid, and on the Living/Learning course Smith taught in Summer 2015 in collaboration with DEN...
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Smartwatches can be handy—perhaps too “handy,” given that they require both hands to operate. That can be a problem if your other hand is full, nonfunctioning or missing.
Researchers have tried a variety of approaches to help smartwatch users who lack a free hand, such as putting acoustic sensors on the watchband to capture inputs from finger-tapping. These efforts have concentrated mostly on enabling discrete commands, such as moving down a list of songs one at a time. Voice commands...
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