Design and deployment of COVID-19 technology responses and finding ways to make things

As governments try to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, many are turning to contact tracing, including apps that track your location and electronic check-in QR codes. But with that technology come questions of personal safety, privacy, trust, control and collective…

UTSA and Dell partner to spur innovation in cybersecurity and data science

(SAN ANTONIO, February 4, 2020) – The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) received a technology grant via special discounts from Dell Technologies to support advanced technologies and a new research infrastructure platform at the university. Through the substantial…

‘Zoombombing’ research shows legitimate meeting attendees cause most attacks

BINGHAMTON, NY — Most zoombombing incidents are “inside jobs” according to a new study featuring researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York. As the COVID-19 virus spread worldwide in early 2020, much of our lives went virtual, including…

INL researchers publish book to prevent cybersecurity disruptions, train workforce

Two cybersecurity researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have published a new book to help train employees at public utilities to recognize cybersecurity vulnerabilities and develop measures to defend their networks from increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. Countering Cyber Sabotage: Introducing Consequence-Driven, Cyber-Informed…

Team to develop automated-driving tech for people with cognitive impairments

LAWRENCE — A research team based at the University of Kansas School of Engineering is one of 10 semifinalists in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Inclusive Design Challenge , which seeks to make self-driving cars accessible to people with disabilities.…

Bentham Science launches new journal, ‘The Chinese Journal of Artificial Intelligence’

Bentham Science is pleased to announce the launch of new subscription-based journal, The Chinese Journal of Artificial Intelligence . The first issue of the journal will be available online by the start of the year, 2021. Dr. Dunwei Gong is…

New transistor design disguises key computer chip hardware from hackers

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A hacker can reproduce a circuit on a chip by discovering what key transistors are doing in a circuit – but not if the transistor “type” is undetectable. Purdue University engineers have demonstrated a way to…

New cyberattack can trick scientists into making toxins or viruses — Ben-Gurion University researchers

BEER-SHEVA, Israel…November 30, 2020 – An end-to-end cyber-biological attack, in which unwitting biologists may be tricked into generating dangerous toxins in their labs, has been discovered by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev cyber-researchers. According to a new paper just published…

Mason to lead regional hub for national cybersecurity advanced manufacturing innovation partnership

George Mason University is poised to be named a managing member in the Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII), a $111 million public-private partnership led by the University of Texas at San Antonio. CyManII will have a five-year corporative agreement with…

Tiny device enables new record in super-fast quantum light detection

Researchers have developed a tiny device that paves the way for higher performance quantum computers and quantum communications, making them significantly faster than the current state-of-the-art.

New control architecture defends complex interconnected systems against cyberattacks

Researchers have developed a novel control architecture that defends complex, interconnected systems previously vulnerable to cyberattacks. Details were published in IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica . Distributed systems are becoming more and more essential in everyday life. From power plants…

Research to bring more secure software for autonomous battlefield operations

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Drones and other unmanned machines can save human lives on the battlefield, but adversaries could hack into their artificial intelligence software. Purdue University will be leading research in partnership with Princeton University on ways to protect…

Fellow at Sandia Labs appointed to National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories Fellow Gil Herrera has been appointed to the newly established U.S. National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee. Herrera is one of two committee members representing the Department of Energy national laboratories. He joins 20 others…

Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum – Experiment to Experience

Over the past week, the diverse program of the Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) materialized one session at a time. Many aspects of the actual Forum were mirrored and though replicating the depth of in-person exchanges is impossible, compelling alternatives…