Verizon recently released its 2014 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, which presents results from an analysis of over 63,000 cyber security incidents that have occurred during the past ten years. Using tools from the rapidly expanding field of Data Science,…
Orwell keeps getting more and more brilliant. A friend of mine asked for some advice for escaping what he referred to as “Google’s all-seeing eye.” He explained that he installed Firefox and added an extension…
An interesting paper (summarized quite well in the MIT Technology Review) presents a new technique for discovering the keys used by popular encryption tools. By measuring the variation in voltage at various points on a computer’s case as it runs…
Summer vacation tends to be a break not only for the kids, but for us parents, too. We spend a lot of time trying to help our children with their homework, and that task usually…
The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science held two summer camps this past week for high school students. The first, Camp Code, introduced students to the programming language Python and taught them how to think like…
In a project that demonstrates perfectly the interplay between Computer Science and Computer Engineering, HP announced that it is working on a new kind of computer architecture designed to meet the hefty demands of the…
With the end of May here, it’s time for the kiddies to let their brains descend into that miraculous vegetative state known as summer vacation. They’ll get to enjoy twelve weeks of forgetting all that book learning,…
The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science is very proud to announce the graduation of its biggest class yet. Twenty-six students are graduating with a degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, or both today. These are…
The final Girls Create with Technology session of the year was held Saturday, May 10, 2014. Dr. Cindy Howard led a session in which she taught the attendees how to write software applications that draw…
Interactive signage has a number of advantages. They can provide visitors to a public space a great deal of information very conveniently. They also bring a lot of “wow factor” to a hallway. Unfortunately, they…