CIO Magazine published an article yesterday that identifies seven of the most effective and favorite attacks of cyber attackers. Some of these are quite simple and therefore easy to perpetrate on unsuspecting users. Others require a…
No doubt about it: the most fun I’ve had today is typing the words of the this post’s title, because I can only imagine the look of indignation on the face of one of our…
One of the themes we academicians constantly preach is the value of lifelong learning. Learning is a virtue, and a life that celebrates it is one worth living. Lasallian institutions like Lewis place particular emphasis…
Charles “Guy” Thier was honored tonight at Lewis University’s Annual Alumni Awards Dinner. Guy, who received a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science in 1983, won the Alumni Achievement Award in the Sciences for his…
Earlier this week, I wrote about singularity, the point at which computers will be able to “out-think” humans. Estimates of if and when that will happen depend right now on whether Moore’s Law will continue…
An underground cyber criminal ring has stolen the personal records of over 4 million Americans and has been selling them to other cyber criminals. The group, called SSNDOB for “social security number / date of…
We reached a milestone in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science today. We now have 100 Computer Science majors. Not bad for a program that had just 39 Computer Science majors at one point…
An article published on September 23 in Information Week provides great news to Computer Science students: almost all of the eight hottest opportunities in information technology are careers uniquely suited to their skills and knowledge.…
Computer Science pioneer John Von Neumann, who designed the architecture that characterizes nearly every computer in use today, long ago coined the term singularity to describe the moment in time when artificial intelligence would exceed…
A Google software engineer named Tom Murphy recently created a program that learns how to beat various classic video games like Super Mario Bros. and Tetris. He explains his work, which he submitted as a…