The airline industry has had a number of incidents lately in which its operations have come to a halt because of a computer glitch. This past July, United Airlines delayed and canceled several flights because…
I was in graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on August 24, 1995, working on my Ph.D. research. I stopped into my advisor’s office to have a meeting about one of our…
Sometimes design mistakes are so dumb that, if you’re conspiracy-minded, you wonder if they were made on purpose. Here’s an example. HTC, makers of the One Max smartphone, decided to leave users’ fingerprints in a world-readable,…
Two students in the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (CaMS) at Lewis University participated in the University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) this summer. Betsy Langland and Michael Korzon, both of Downers Grove, presented…
It turns out that Microsoft has been right all along, at least when it comes to software updates. Android has it very, very wrong. And Apple, in its quest to rule everything, got it right out…
The Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (CaMS) participated in Joliet’s eleventh annual Kidzfest on Saturday, August 1. The event, which gives kids a chance to learn and have fun at the same time, was…
An article in The Washington Post today presented some scary but unsurprising news about recent advances in hacking into automobiles to take control of them remotely. From several miles away, an attacker could break into the…
July 8, 2015, was not a good day for tech. First, United Airlines suspended flights for two hours due to a computer network problem . A few hours later, financial markets ground to a halt…
Here’s a really interesting report on the traffic accidents and other incidents Google’s self-driving car has experienced in one million miles of driving. Thirteen accidents have been reported, but none of them appear to be the…
The future of computing centers on the operating system. So does its past. That is the message of an interesting article featured on Gizmodo today. The operating system of a computing device is the software…