The People’s Liberation Army (PLA), China’s armed forces, embedded a tiny microchip in servers manufactured by SuperMicro, one of the largest manufacturers of server-class motherboards. Once installed in a server, the rogue chips, which resembled…
Did you have to re-login to Facebook this week? You’re not alone. Some fifty million people were impacted by a new data breach in Facebook that could have given hackers access to user profiles. Facebook’s…
In 2004, The Department of Homeland Security designated October National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. And with each passing October since, as the leaves turn gold and the air turns crisp, we are reminded of our shared…
I loved A.P. English in high school. It was, by far, my favorite subject. The teacher did a good job preparing us for the A.P. English test, but that isn’t what made the class so…
With the release of the most recent college rankings by Money, US News and World Report, Time/Wall Street Journal, The Princeton Review, Colleges of Distinction and many others, I often wondered how families of college-bound…
In recent years, Illinois has become one of the largest exporters in the country of college-bound students. According to the Illinois Board of Higher Education, in 2016 a staggering 23,304 Illinois public high school graduates…
I was quite amused this week by an article on The Onion website entitled “Young Girls Creeped Out By Older Scientists Constantly Trying to Lure Them Into STEM”. The article concludes with the observation that so…
A colleague in the Humanities shared a provocative article in Wired magazine with me today about a new initiative called the Ethical OS. “OS” means “operating system”, which, in computerspeak, is the software that enables your…
When I was kid, my parents stressed to me that there were certain topics you just didn’t talk about in public: religion and politics. You never knew whom you would offend if you brought up…
Many graduate students struggle with time management and dealing with competing priorities.Balancing graduate school, work, and social obligations is often difficult and can lead to burnout. Burnout is a feeling that you can’t, or don’t…