On June 11, 100 Computer Science undergraduates and 37 graduate students received their degrees. Here are some of the graduates, with their families, along with a few Computer Science faculty members.
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Jessica Fan won the Gazzaniga Family Science Award, which is given to a graduating senior in the sciences for scientific accomplishments. Jessica had two published papers by the time she graduated, and she will be presenting her paper, “Dense Gray Codes in Mixed Radices,” this week at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), in Aachen Germany.
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Watch the interview here.
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Online video serves the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations as a powerful tool for recruiting new members and inciting violence. A potential fix remains curiously in limbo.
For more, head over to the full Scientific American article.
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Professor Sergey Bratus gave a lengthy interview to the Concord Monitor about the recent wave of ransomware attacks that started on Friday the 12th of May. While these attacks indiscriminately targeted non-updated MS-Windows systems, hospitals, particularly in Britain seemed to bear the brunt of the malfeasance. Professor Bratus noted, "Ransomware in hospitals is already routine. Perhaps for this...
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Congratulations to Emily Greene ’17, who just received Honorable Mention for the NCWIT Collegiate Award from the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT).
Emily received a cash prize and a expense-paid trip to the NCWIT Summit on Women and IT in Tucson, Arizona on May...
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David Kotz and Kobby Essien received mobile computing's most prestigious award for their technical paper: "Analysis of a Campus-wide Wireless Network".
From the SIGMOBILE website:
[more]This paper was the first to systematically demonstrate how to measure and understand a production-scale wireless network, which was previously considered an impenetrable black box. This led to an incredible amount of...
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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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