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A primer on the proliferation of offensive cyber capabilities Issue Brief by Winnona DeSombre, Michele Campobasso, Dr. Luca Allodi, Dr. James Shires, JD Work, Robert Morgus, Patrick Howell O’Neill, and Dr. Trey Herr Executive summary Offensive cyber capabilities run the gamut from sophisticated, long-term disruptions of physical infrastructure to malware used to target human rights journalists. As thes...

Categorized features of dashboards to recognize the open challenges for general visualization communication.

SHARE Lacework Inc., a security and compliance platform for cloud generation, today announced an expansion of its leadership team that includes key executive hires, including the surprise appointment of David “Hat” Hatfield as chief executive. Other hires in addition to Hatfield (pictured) include former Chief Executive Dan Hubbard, who will become Lacework’s chief product officer; security and machine learning researcher Ulfar Erlingsson, who joined as chief architect; and industry veter...

Yom-Tov, Rothschild) "Nudging people towards vaccination is an important public health goal which has received significant attention over the years. Here we focused on methods for finding people to whom vaccine ads should be shown..." One way to increase vaccination coverage is through online advertising that is designed to raise awareness of vaccines and inform people of their necessity. In internet marketing, search advertising is a method of placing online advertisements on web pages that sh...

Posted on Swamit Tannu, new assistant professor specializing in computer architecture and quantum computing, joins UW-Madison Computer Sciences from Georgia Tech, where he completed his PhD. His research focuses on “architecture and compilation techniques to mitigate hardware error to enable quantum computers that can solve practical problems,” such as designing better drugs, more efficient batteries, and inexpensive fertilizers. Tannu was attracted to UW-Madison CS in part because th...

Microsoft is hosting a virtual research summit at the end of the month to discuss tons of topics on gaming: including AI, development, allowing creativity, and more. Speakers from all kinds of places will be present.

Without a new ethics to match the new methods of big tech research, Gray said, scientists risk losing the public’s trust.

The team-up with Hewlett Packard Enterprise will be centered around delivering Azure capabilities to space through HPE's Spaceborne Computer-2, which is set to be launched this month.

HPE Accelerates Space Exploration with In-Space Commercial Edge Computing, AI Capabilities Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced it is accelerating space exploration and increasing self-sufficiency for astronauts by enabling real-time data processing with advanced commercial edge computing in space for the first time. Astronauts and space explorers aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will speed time-to-insight...

The Association for Computing Machinery last month announced it has named 95 members ACM Fellows, among whom are more than a dozen Indian Americans. The Fellows were chosen for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, computer graphics, computational biology, data science, human-computer interaction, software engineering, theoretical computer science, and virtual reality, among other areas, according to an ACM news release. Among th...