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 E-Mail IMAGE: Rice University engineer Yingyan Lin has won a National Science CAREER Award to help close the gap between fast "deep learning " algorithm advances and slow accelerator development. view more  Credit: Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 22, 2021) - Yingyan Lin, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice University's Brown School of Engineering, has won a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to make deep learning hardware accelerators more efficient and its development faster. CAREER Awards, among the most competitive offered by the N...

Boffins develop improved image poisoning technique to preserve privacy Share Copy A group of computer scientists has released a privacy-focused web application to poison people's online images so they confuse commercial facial recognition systems. The application, called LowKey, is intended to protect people from unauthorized surveillance. It's based on an adversarial attack technique developed by University of Maryland boffins Valeriia Cherepanova, Micah Goldblum, Shiyuan Duan, John Dickerson, Gavin Taylor, Tom Goldstein, and US Naval Academy researcher Harrison Foley. It alters imag...