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Russia to spend over half a billion dollars to bolster internet censorship system

Twitter Updated Its AI Chatbot. The Images Are A Dumpster Fire

University of Michigan solar car team wins challenge

Michigan needs quality teachers for universal high school computer science

Artificial intelligence scientists developing tools to decode what your dog’s barks mean

Lynn Conway, 1938-2024: The Computer Architect Who Helped to Revolutionize Digital IC Design

Lynn Conway, microchip pioneer and trans rights advocate, dies at 86

Last Word: Sir Oliver Popplewell, Lynn Conway, Tony Bramwell, Francoise Hardy

Lynn Conway, Computing Pioneer and Transgender Advocate, Dies at 86

Lynn Conway, microchip pioneer and trans rights advocate, dies at 86

AI to interpret meaning of dog barks. University of Michigan professor explains.

WWDC 2024: How Apple’s rollout of AI will matter more than what those features actually are

Scientists enlist AI to interpret meaning of barks

Michigan Commits $10M to Train Semiconductor Workforce

Voxel51 secures $30M to help gen AI understand visual input more accurately

What are scientists teaching AI?

Los Alamos Grants University of Michigan $15M to Fund Computing Collaboration

University of Michigan creates AI tools for campus, students

The Rise Of AI: Key Data Issues To Watch

Remembering David Mills (1938–2024)

How Michigan universities are at the forefront of advancing AI technology

Here’s what we learned during a demo ride in a May Mobility AV

5 Local Women in STEM Share Experiences and Advice

AI Regulation and the finance Industry

Scientists with East Asian and African names get short shrift in news coverage

Meet the women doing groundbreaking AI research at U-M

Blind Spots, Shortcuts, and Automation Bias—Researchers Are Aiming to Improve AI Clinical Models

Everything to Know About OpenAI’s New Text-to-Video Generator, Sora

It Happened at Michigan — ‘I really disliked writing papers’

A Celebrated Cryptography-Breaking Algorithm Just Got an Upgrade

Finding and Lifting Up Diamonds in the Rough: Shaping the Next Generation of AI Researchers

AI expert warns of algo-based market manipulation

Expert shows how to tamper with Georgia voting machine in security trial

Tomorrow’s Quantum Computers Threaten Today’s Secrets. Here’s How to Protect Them

Trial gets underway for constitutional challenge to Georgia’s election system

Behind the wheel of Detroit’s new self-driving shuttle program

Trump allies seek to co-opt coming election-security case to bolster 2020 lie

Is Georgia’s election system constitutional? A federal judge will decide in trial

How May Mobility went fully driverless while avoiding the pitfalls of robotaxis

MIDAS, Michigan AI Lab host interactive generative AI workshop

Quantum computing could trigger either a technological revolution or a nightmare. But scientists aren’t sure which.

AI in society: Perspectives from the field

Automated shuttle planned for Detroit is testing at Mcity

This smartphone tool helps people with visual disabilities us touchscreens

Universities Can’t Accommodate All the Computer Science Majors

BrushLens tech could make touchscreen displays accessible to everyone

Smartphone case workaround

Cloud and consequences: Internet censorship data enters the transformation age

Shining a light in the dark: Measuring global internet shutdowns

University of Michigan partnering with state to prep future semiconductor workforce

The Race to Save Our Secrets From the Computers of the Future

Should I Get a Smart Lock for My House, or Stick With a Deadbolt?

Democrats advance internet voting bill that worries security experts

UM expert testifies on the dangers of AI in banking

U-M gets $17.5M for outbreak response network at SPH

MIDAS gets $2.3M to develop national training program

Voting online is very risky. But hundreds of thousands of people are already doing it.

Making your phone screen blurry could stop people snooping on you

Researchers tout Battery Sleuth technology as disruption in vehicle security

U-M researchers studying ‘Battery Sleuth’ that could protect your car from being stolen

From a lab in Ann Arbor, fighting internet censorship around the world

A Surprisingly Simple Way to Foil Car Thieves

Old-tech solution may protect high-tech car in new ways from auto hacking, theft

The case against allowing internet voting in Michigan

Experts discuss FTC investigation of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI (video)

UMich hosts third annual Juneteenth symposium

Critics blast Georgia’s plan to delay software updates on its voting machines

Court unseals long-awaited election security reports

Georgia won’t update vulnerable Dominion software until after 2024 election

Researchers at UMich find a way to reduce the energy consumed by AI

Princeton awards five honorary degrees

Putting a Teaspoon of Programming into Other Subjects

MIDAS hosts forum on ethics in artificial intelligence

Security concerns raised over internet voting for Michigan military spouses

U-M artificial intelligence experts share ChatGPT lessons with Ann Arbor public

Future is now – this revolutionary device can transform your body or a desk into a touchscreen

2023 Inductee Lynn Conway: Leading a Revolution in Microelectronics

Your Next Fitness Coach Could Be a Robot

Meet the brains behind the world’s first fully remote global censorship observatory

UMich Perspectives: How are we dealing with AI?

I Got Investigated by the Secret Service. Here’s How to Not Be Me

‘Meet Your Class’: UMich students launch website for incoming first-years to find roommates

Learning How U.S. Consumers Perceive and Use VPNs

Advocates seek federal investigation of multistate effort to copy voting software

DeepMind AI topples experts at complex game Stratego

‘Data-rich, resource-poor.’ Why Michigan schools can be a ‘soft target’ for ransomware attacks

Nearly every election-denying secretary of state candidate lost

Will Election Deniers Again Try to Access Voting Systems?

University of Michigan to Ramp Up AI Research Over Next 6 Years

The Vulnerabilities of our Voting Machines, and How to Secure Them

Are virtual private networks actually private?

Apps can pose bigger security, privacy threat based on where you download them

‘Absolutely terrifying prospect’: How the midterms could weaken U.S. election security

Democratizing Automation: UiPath and University of Michigan Join Efforts

GOP operatives’ troubling trend of copying election systems

Computer Graphics Innovator Paul Debevec to Receive Emmy for Lifetime Achievement

Alum Paul E. Debevec awarded the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award

Can a Teaching Track Improve Undergraduate Education?

How ‘Stop the Steal’ Captured the American Right

AMAISE: a machine learning approach to index-free sequence enrichment

Perceptron: Risky teleoperation, Rocket League simulation and zoologist multiplication

No evidence of exploitation of Dominion voting machine flaws, CISA finds

Opinion: We’ve developed a digital education model that works

Cyber agency: Voting software vulnerable in some states

AI models in health care are not colour blind and we should not be either

Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

Don’t Call Tony Fadell an Asshole—He Prefers ‘Mission Driven’

The Elegant Philosophy of Ones and Zeros

Using AI for good

Dan Huttenlocher ponders our human future in an age of artificial intelligence

Plot to Overturn the Election

LG opens AI research center in Michigan

Tracked and Traced: You are the product, thanks to surveillance capitalism

New legislation could bring mobile voting to the District

New legislation could bring mobile voting to the District

Geo-exchange system to generate renewable heating, cooling

Feds oppose immediate release of voting machine report

Sony’s new AI beats humans in Gran Turismo racing game

Unicorn-Bound

Are voting machines too vulnerable to hacking? Georgia’s having that debate

Toyota AV-Shuttle Bet May Mobility Raises $83 Million

The Catch-22 of Addressing Election Security

Keeping hackers out of our medical devices

Quantum Cyberattacks Are Coming. This Math Can Stop Them

A New Report on VPNs Shows They’re Often a Mixed Bag for Privacy

2021 Precision Health Investigators Awards

Computer Science was always supposed to be taught to everyone, and it wasn’t about getting a job: A historical perspective

Could Ordinary Household Objects Be Used To Spy On You?

Governments are finding new ways to squash free expression online

Russia Is Censoring the Internet, With Coercion and Black Boxes

$25M gift to help fund computer science, information building

Ransomware attacks put availability of medical devices at risk: FDA cyber chief

Election Security Problems Still Must Be Addressed | Opinion

CHEPSter to CHEPSter the Computer Science Edition

May Mobility to launch AV shuttle in Ann Arbor

This magic room charges your phone as soon as you walk in

Experts call for rigorous audit to protect California recall

G.O.P. Election Reviews Create a New Kind of Security Threat

$2M ‘robot assistants’ project aims to reinvent construction industry

The Role of Computer Science in Elite Higher Education: Seeing the Expert Blind Spot

Evolution now accepted by majority of Americans

This entire room has been turned into a giant wireless charger

Experts: False claims on voting machines obscure real flaws

Computer security personnel need tools, training to assist survivors of intimate partner violence

Hacker lexicon: what is a side channel attack?

‘Move fast and break things’ won’t work for autonomous vehicles

Trump Says More Countries Should Ban Twitter: ‘Perhaps I Should Have Done It While I Was President’

Experimental Morpheus CPU is ‘mind-bogglingly terrible’ to crack

How the Ford F-150 Lightning’s Chief Engineer Linda Zhang Brought the World an Electric Pickup

Jamaican engineering genius leads US team to make World Wide Web more global

Ransomware, other cyber threats mount as medtech industry tries to adapt

Researchers Are Trying to Create an Unhackable Computer Processor

Shape-shifting computer chip thwarts an army of hackers

Free ‘A2GO’ autonomous shuttle service coming to Ann Arbor this fall

Mythic Raises $70 Million in Series C Funding Led by BlackRock and Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Putin Finds Ally in China’s TikTok in Crackdown on Critics

University of Michigan Combines Tech and Twilio to Support a Continuous Learning Environment for Thousands of Low-income Students

Did UM team build an unhackable computer chip? Nobody has beaten it

SambaNova Raises Eye-Popping Series D Funding

Academics: Russia deployed new technology to throttle Twitter’s traffic

Michigan expert debunks infamous report on Antrim County election as ‘meaningless’

U of Mich. computer science prof: no fraud in Antrim Co. 2020 election

U-M Computer Chip MORPHEUS Defeats 500+ Hackers

Building a Preeminent Research Lab in the Arab Region: The Case of QCRI

Experience as a Woman in STEM at the University of Michigan

U-M Africa Week engages audience in conversations on development and growth of Africa

Examining the intersection of natural language processing and social sciences

The Scramble for Post-Quantum Cryptography

Solving for Equity

XR internships create new reality for Ann Arbor tech ecosystem

Traveling beyond Moore’s Law – together

SambaNova Emerges From Stealth With Record-Breaking AI System

Northeastern Names Usama Fayyad to Lead Institute of Experiential Artificial Intelligence

Finding Gaps in Your Grad School Apps

Winner of NSA’s 8th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Research Paper Competition

IBM fired U-M professor Lynn Conway for coming out as trans in 1968. 52 years later, the company apologized.

Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are?

52 Years Later, IBM Apologizes for Firing Transgender Woman

IBM Apologizes For Firing Computer Pioneer For Being Transgender…52 Years Later

Human error, Dominion voting equipment fuel false fraud claims in Michigan

PROGRESS Out of the Blue

Leading Cybersecurity Expert Applauds Michigan Election Security Measures

How Election Tech Could Create a Recount Nightmare

Michigan elections vulnerable to hacks but not as much as others, report says

How secure are Michigan elections? Quietly released report shines light

Will Georgia’s new voting machines solve election problems — or make them worse?

US blocks Hong Kong users from some government websites

With time short, judge mulls Georgia voting system changes

The contest to protect almost everything on the internet

Lawyers spar over Georgia voting machine glitch, planned fix

COVID-19 app built at U-M helps businesses stay open

Is Your Vote Secure in Michigan? Cybersecurity Expert Alex Halderman is Cautiously Optimistic

Study: Pa. benefits screening tool may be telling potential applicants they don’t qualify

Customizable Curricula Available from U-M Center

3 Proposals to Change How We Teach Computing In Order to Reduce Inequality

Humans Take a Step Closer to ‘Flying Cars’

Who Gets to Vote in Florida?

Relying on electronic voting machines puts us at risk, security expert says

Covid-19 Is Dividing the American Worker

Before we put $100 billion into AI…

Censys, a search engine for internet devices, raises $15.5M Series A

The Cybersecurity 202: DNC’s email voting plan limits hacking risk but can’t eliminate it

How To Create An AI (Artificial Intelligence) Model

Voting amidst a pandemic

Delayed Election Results Could Test Social Media Companies as Never Before

MIT Alumni Profile: Edwin Olson ’00, MEng ’01, PhD ’08

Hacker Lexicon: What Is a Side Channel Attack?

Delaware Quietly Fielded An Online Voting System, But Now Is Backing Away

A Q&A with David Fouhey

Game Playing meets Game Theory with Professor Michael Wellman

The Cybersecurity 202: Georgia’s primary debacle should sound alarm bells for November

Online Voting System Used in Florida and Elsewhere Has Severe Security Flaws, Researchers Find

The Cybersecurity 202: DARPA wants hackers to try to crack its new generation of super-secure hardware

Amid Pandemic and Upheaval, New Cyberthreats to the Presidential Election

5 Women You Should Know Working in AI

Probing tech’s soft underbelly

HBO Documentary Shows The Value Of Cybersecurity In Election Security

Nvidia makes its GPU-powered genome sequencing tool available free to those studying COVID-19

Why I Chose to Attend Michigan Engineering

Duo Security founder donates $1M to Washtenaw County small business fund

Cybersecurity Experts Say Hacking Risk Is High for Mobile Voting

‘Alexa, let’s chat!’: U-M among 10 student teams worldwide advancing conversational AI

Buggy Iowa Caucus App Is Buggy, Security Experts Say

“It’s total amateur hour,” Prof. J. Alex Halderman says of a vulnerable app used in the Iowa Caucuses.

Here’s why NSA rushed to expose a dangerous computer bug

Hackers could have used vulnerabilities in the IowaReporterApp to intercept or even change passwords, vote totals, and other sensitive information, with commentary from Prof. J. Alex Halderman.

How Multiple System Failures Produced Debacle in Iowa Caucus

Prof. J. Alex Halderman spoke about how the spectacle in the Iowa Caucuses should serve as a cautionary tale about electronic and internet voting.

App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequately Tested

Prof. J. Alex Halderman provides commentary on the vulnerabilities of app used in the Iowa Caucuses.

Puerto Rico’s Internet Voting Plan Threatens Election Security: ACLU

Puerto Ricans could be casting their ballots online only in the next eight years, and Prof. J. Alex Halderman provides criticism.

Intel Is Patching the Patch for the Patch for Its ‘Zombieload’ Flaw

University professors discuss artificial intelligence’s influence on the financial world

ROBOTS: Time to think about laws?

‘Chaos Is the Point’: Russian Hackers and Trolls Grow Stealthier in 2020

While American election defenses have improved since 2016, many of the vulnerabilities exploited four years ago remain. Comments by Prof. J. Alex Halderman.

Research undercuts arguments from ballot-marking device advocates

Ballot-marking devices are still vulnerable to hacks, according to a study from EECS-CSE professor Alex Halderman.

Voting machines touted as secure option are actually vulnerable to hacking

Voters fail mock election, exposing vulnerability to hackers

Breaking Into a Smart Home With A Laser – Smarter Every Day 229

Graduate student Ben Cyr demonstrates how his lab was able to hack into smart speakers with a laser.

Scholar Stories: Gu Doing What She Loves at Michigan — Dance, Computer Science

Allison Gu keeps busy: a senior in CS with an entrepreneurship minor, she’s also tri-captain of the U-M Dance Team.

Toyota leads $50 million investment in autonomous shuttle startup May Mobility

‘U’ researchers find way to hack into virtual assistants with lasers

How UM degrees propelled careers in T-shirts, robots and photo archives

Expensive, Glitchy Voting Machines Expose 2020 Hacking Risks

Paper ballots may be safer and cheaper, but local officials swoon at digital equipment. Remarks from J. Alex Halderman.

Study: Russia’s web-censoring tool sets pace for imitators

The smart speaker in your home may not be as secure as you think

Researchers, including EECS-CSE associate professor Kevin Fu, have discovered an exploit that made home assistants vulnerable to lasers.

Hackers can use lasers to ‘speak’ to your Amazon Echo or Google Home

Researchers, including EECS-CSE associate professor Kevin Fu, have discovered an exploit that makes home assistants vulnerable to laser attacks.

With a laser, researchers say they can hack Alexa, Google Home or Siri

EECS-CSE associate professor Kevin Fu’s research has found a vulnerability in home assistants, reports the New York Times.

Siri, Alexa, and Google Home can be controlled with lasers, new research shows

Five Components Of Autonomous Car Security

The Market for Voting Machines Is Broken. This Company Has Thrived in It.

Jana Pavlasek – PhD Student in Robotics

If We Want Women to Persist in Computing, Teach Them Programming – At Any Age

University Professors talk using AI technology for bipolar disorder

Interspeech 2019 — Machine Learning-enabled Creativity and Innovation In Speech Tech

11 unexpected ways universities are using the Microsoft HoloLens

Dr. Dave Chesney and his students have found medical applications for the HoloLens, including providing realtime remote emergency care.

U-M experts to weigh in on artificial intelligence, mental health in Ann Arbor Sept. 27

Event to take place at Ann Arbor District Library’s downtown branch

In an era of distractions, Microsoft wants AI to be your coworker

The company is aiming to adapt its productivity suite to a short-attention-span world, with remarks by Prof. Walter Lasecki

Trump’s Plan to Stop Violence Via Smartphone Tracking Isn’t Just a Massive Privacy Violation

Prof. Emily Mower Provost spoke with Slate about the new HARPA proposal. She and her colleagues were skeptical.

Jason Mars and Lingjia Tang – 40 Under 40

Profs. Lingjia Tang and Jason Mars co-founded Clinc AI, developing personal assistants for a variety of applications.

Yes, tech companies may listen when you talk to your virtual assistant. Here’s why that’s not likely to stop

Prof. Jason Mars weighs in.

Yes, tech companies may listen when you talk to your virtual assistant. Here’s why that’s not likely to stop

EECS-CSE professor Florian Schaub explains privacy concerns that stem from assistants like Alexa.

How to Defraud Democracy

Prof. J. Alex Halderman writes a worst-case cyberwarfare scenario for the 2020 American presidential election.

Researchers wrote an algorithm that can undetectably change scanned ballot images

Digital images of scanned-in paper ballots can be easily modified to change the results of an election, according to research published by Prof. J. Alex Halderman.

Michigan co-launches competition to help build the next generation of AI-driven dialog systems

IBM Research AI and the University of Michigan are spearheading the development of algorithms that can learn goal-oriented dialog interactions effectively from human-to-human chatlogs by organizing a public competition to inspire and evaluate novel approaches that will lead to the next generation of AI-driven dialog systems.

Overcoming Challenges in Building Enterprise AI Assistants

U-M researchers including Prof. Walter Lasecki, postdoc Jonathan Kummerfeld, and PhD student Sai Gouravajhala partnered with IBM research to address one of the main challenges in existing state-of-the-art AI assistants. Their paper works to disentangle conversations that are mixed together in a single stream of messages.

To foil hackers, this chip can change its code in the blink of an eye

EECS-CSE professor Todd Austin explains how Morpheus’ rapid churning can thwart potential hackers.

Harvard’s Tiny, Solar-Powered Flying Robot

EECS-CSE assistant professor Shai Revzen shares his thoughts on Harvard’s flying robot and predicts the future of micro-flying air vehicles.

Hold ’Em or fold ’em? This A.I. bluffs with the best

Michael Wellman, the Lynn A Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, explains how AI-playing Texas Hold ‘Em could drive cybersecurity advancements.

Elizabeth Warren just released a plan to protect American elections

EECS-CSE professor Alex Halderman explains what it would take to protect elections in the United States.

GitHub Releases New Tools to Report Vulnerabilities

The new features came out the same day as a study by Prof. Atul Prakash that found many open-source projects lack a clear way to report security problems.

Analog AI Accelerator Startup Raises $30m

AI accelerator chip start-up Mythic, founded in 2012 at U-M by EECS alumnus Mike Henry and Dave Fick, has raised $30 million in a B1 funding round.

Google Stadia has kicked off a new age of gaming data harvesting

John L Tishman Professor of Engineering John Laird tells Wired computer games are a valuable tool for analyzing human behavior and decision-making skills.

Privacy policies are too complicated to understand, new analysis confirms

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Florian Schaub explains how many privacy policies are unfair to consumers.

Researchers use Rowhammer bit flips to steal 2048-bit crypto key

Researchers use Rowhammer bit flips to steal 2048-bit crypto key

Clinc raises over $50 million to bring conversational AI to cars, banks, and kiosks

Clinc, a four-year-old AI startup based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, today announced that it’s secured $52 million in series B financing

New speculative execution bug leaks data from Intel chips’ internal buffers

Voting tech creates growing concern for local officials

EECS-CSE graduate student instructor Matt Bernhard explains the risks of not addressing voting security concerns.

Top universities in U.S. targeted by Chinese hackers

Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer and Clinical Professor of EEC-CSE Ravi Pendse explains the unique cybersecurity risks universities face, Inside Higher Ed reports.

As 2020 nears, pressure grows to replace voting machines

EECS-CSE professor Alex Halderman stresses the importance of the federal government funding new technologies to improve the security of U.S. elections, as reported by New York Times.

Are our voting systems secure?

Diane Rehm interviewed EECS-CSE professor Alex Halderman to discuss election security risks ahead of 2020 presidential primaries.

What the U.S. can learn about electronic voting from this tiny Eastern European nation

EECS-CSE professor Alex Halderman discusses the risks of online voting in Estonia with Time Magazine.

Ann Arbor’s May Mobility raises $22 million to deploy driverless shuttles across US

May Mobility secures $22 million investment amid expansion

Can ‘air traffic control’ make self-driving cars cheap and safe?

EECS-CSE assistant professor Walter Lasecki explains how new research can help driverless vehicles make decisions during times of uncertainty.

Self-driving cars could deploy sooner using ‘air traffic control’ technique, U-M researchers say

EECS-CSE assistant professor Walter Lasecki explains how new research will allow driverless vehicles to make decisions during times of uncertainty.

The first driverless spin

EECS-CSE Associate Professor Matthew Johnson-Roberson discusses on-going driverless vehicle research and testing going on around the country.

Research team investigating Internet censorship with tracking system

EECS-CSE research assistant professor Roya Ensafi explains how Censored Planet monitors censorship online.

A poker-playing robot goes to work for the Pentagon

Michael Wellman, the Lynn A Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, discusses how AI might help in military decision-making with Wired.

The elite intel team still fighting Meltdown and Spectre

Self-driving cars keep tapping the brakes

Matthew Johnson-Roberson, an EECS-CSE and NAME associate professor and co-director of the University of Michigan’s Ford Center for Autonomous Vehicles, discusses the growing pains of self-driving vehicles with Bloomberg.

Parabricks finds a niche to target its computing power

University of Michigan spinoff company Parabricks is featured in Crain’s Detroit Business.

Online censorship in Saudi Arabia soared after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder

Censored Planet, an internet censorship project lead by EECS-CSE research assistant professor Roya Ensafi, detected a sharp uptick in censorship following the killing of Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi.

The Malware of the Future Will Have AI Superpowers

Research delving into neural network vulnerabilities done in part by EECS-CSE professor Atul Prakash and U-M graduate students is discussed in Gizmodo.

People Who Buy Smart Speakers Have Given Up on Privacy, Researchers Find

A U-M study that included EECS-CSE assistant professor Florian Schaub looked at smart home devices like Alexa and users opinion of privacy after owning one.

A moral code for computer scientists

In an interview with Stateside, EECS-CSE Professor H. V. Jagadish says that businesses should do more to incorporate data ethics into their practices.

This is the most important moral question about self-driving cars

EECS-CSE professor Benjamin Kuipers discusses self-driving cars’ decision-making process with Vox.

J. Alex Halderman on Election Systems and Vulnerabilities

Alex Halderman discusses election systems and vulnerabilities ahead of midterm elections with C-Span.

Don’t kid yourself, U.S. enemies are trying to hack our elections

EECS-CSE professor Alex Halderman discusses election hacking and vulnerabilities ahead of midterms.

Parabricks finds a niche to target its computing power

EECS-CSE professor Scott Mahlke and U-M spin-off Parabricks are featured.

The internet security company Dug Song is betting on

Internet security company Censys is detailed by Crain’s Detroit Business.

A look at the election security charges in Georgia’s governor’s race

EECS-CSE professor Alex Halderman discusses election vulnerabilities ahead of the midterms with PBS.

How to hack an election

EECS-CSE professor Alex Halderman discusses voting machine vulnerabilities ahead of midterm elections.

Here’s how an AI lie detector can tell when you’re fibbing

EECS-CSE professor Rada Mihalcea discusses her research and how they trained an algorithm to detect lies.

Should You Be Afraid of Election Hacking? Here’s What Experts Say

EECS-CSE professor Alex Halderman discusses election security ahead of midterms.

The midterms are already hacked. You just don’t know it yet.

EECS-CSE professor Alex Halderman and grad student Matt Bernhard discuss election security risks with Vox.

Self-driving cars will have to decide who should live and who should die. Here’s who humans would kill.

EECS-CSE professor Benjamin Kuipers discusses a new study that delves into the decisions automated cars could make in the future.

The campaign for mobile-phone voting is getting a midterm test

EECS-CSE professor Alex Halderman discusses election security ahead of midterms.

How hackable are American voting machines? It depends who you ask

EECS-CSE professor Alex Halderman discusses voting machine vulnerabilities ahead of the midterm elections.

Facebook hack: What to do if you’re affected

EECS-CSE professor Kevin Fu suggests security measures Facebook users should implement after the latest hack.

Stateside: Wisconsin’s suspect water diversion, UM orchestra gives sci-fi film a live soundtrack

Alec Gallimore, Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering, talks about the twin roles that music and science play in Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi classic “2001: A Space Odyssey.” The film was shown with accompanying live orchestra and chorus at Hill Auditorium Friday, September 21.

How to hack an election—and what states should do to prevent fake votes

EECS-CSE professor Alex Halderman presented his election hacking findings at MIT Technology Review’s EmTech conference.

Judge weighs whether Georgia must switch to paper ballots

EECS-CSE professor Alex Halderman says election meddling has gone from an internal interference to interference from outside governments; particularly Russia.

Is Trump taking on Russia? President authorizes sanctions on countries that interfere in elections

EECS-CSE professor Alex Halderman says if Russia plans to interfere in U.S. midterms, they’re probably already in our election systems.

To cripple AI, hackers are turning data against itself

EECS-CSE researcher Kevin Eykholt discusses machine learning with Wired.

Cuba’s “sonic attack” on the U.S. Embassy could have been merely sounds emitted by a listening device

EECS-CSE professor Kevin Fu’s research done in collaboration with Zhejiang University researchers is referenced in Scientific American.

Security upgrades are too little, too late for 2018 midterms, and race is already on for 2020, experts say

EECS-CSE professor Alex Halderman discusses election security with Newsweek.

New system can detect fake news better than humans

EECS-CSE professor Rada Mihalcea and her fake news detector research are highlighted in New Indian Express.

Algorithm beats humans for sniffing out fake news

Futurity shares the fake news detector research story done in collaboration with Electrical Engineering and Computer Science professor Rada Mihalcea.

This fake news detection algorithm outperforms humans

The Next Web delves into the fake news detector research done in collaboration with Electrical Engineering and Computer Science professor Rada Mihalcea.

Researchers claim new algorithm beats humans at spotting fake news

Research led by EECS-CSE Rada Mihalcea highlights a new method for detecting fake news.

Fake news detector algorithm works better than a human

University of Michigan develops fake news detector to fight misinformation

Why election security experts really like paper records

EECS-CSE professor Alex Halderman talks election security with Marketplace Tech host host Tracey Samuelson.

​Microsoft: Here’s how to limit ‘Foreshadow’ attack impact

Your PC might need an update to fight ‘Foreshadow’

‘Foreshadow’ attack affects Intel chips

EECS-CSE professor Thomas Wenisch explains how Foreshadow was discovered and the implications of the security risk.

Three more data-leaking security holes found in Intel chips as designers swap security for speed

Spectre-like flaw undermines intel processors’ most secure element

University of Michigan professors are quoted in Wired.

Sounding the alarm on the dangers of electronic voting

EECS-CSE professor J. Alex Halderman discusses electronic voting and hacking vulnerabilities with Bloomberg News.

People are bad at spotting fake news. Can computer programs do better?

EECS-CSE professor Verónica Pérez-Rosas and colleagues studied real and fake news with the hopes of building programs that can spot it more effectively.

Drone dreams engineered into reality

AERO and EECS professor Ella Atkins discusses the benefits of U-M’s M-Air facility in North Campus.

Net Neutrality is officially dead. Here’s how the changes could affect you, according to experts

Florian Schaub, assistant EECS professor, is quoted.

From accident prevention to bike parking, Ann Arbor’s 100 mobility companies cover plenty of ground

Read about the Jason Corso’s company Voxel51, Ed Olson’s company May Mobility, alumnus Ansgar Strother’s company Movatic, and many more.

Our democracy is broken. Why can’t technology fix it?

J. Alex Halderman, EECS professor, proved that voting software was vulnerable to security threats.

Duo Security: Upstarts

A company founded by two CSE alumni and headquartered in Ann Arbor recently sold for $2.35 billion. (Yes, billion.) What did they do right?

Self-driving car industry confronts trust issues after Uber crash

Matthew Johnson-Roberson, assistant EECS professor, is quoted.

The self-driving Uber in fatal crash didn’t have a vision problem

Matthew Johnson-Roberson, assistant EECS professor, is quoted.

How May Mobility is spearheading autonomous driving in the form of shuttle services

Edwin Olson, associate EECS professor, is the CEO of May Mobility.

Study: Malfunctioning surveillance gear, not sonic weapons, could explain Cuba embassy ‘attack’

Kevin Fu, EECS assistant professor, believes that the sounds could have been caused by improperly placed Cuban spy gear.

UM prof floats new Cuban sonic attack theory

Kevin Fu, EECS assistant professor, does research on the use of ultrasonic waves to interfere with computer devices.

BMW, Toyota back a driverless startup that wants to start small

Edwin Olson, associate EECS professor, is the CEO of May Mobility.

BMW and Toyota are investing in a start-up that makes self-driving shuttles

Edwin Olson, EECS associate professor, is May Mobility’s founder and CEO.

How artificial intelligence is going to affect the financial industry in 2018

Jason Mars, assistant EECS professor and CEO of Clinc, has developed a conversational AI platform for financial institutions.

Pacemakers, defibrillators are potentially hackable

Kevin Fu, Associate EECS professor, is quoted.

SRC’s new R&D centers

The new $32 million center will develop new ideas in computing frontiers, such as autonomous control, robotics and machine-learning. Semiconductor Engineering reports.

Could algorithmic accelerators spur a hardware startup revival?

Valeria Bertacco, EECS professor, directs the ADA center. TheNextPlatform reports.

DARPA funds six centers working on computer design alternatives

Valeria Bertacco, EECS professor, leads the project. TechRepublic reports.

May Mobility steers to market with new tech licenses, plans to double workforce

Edwin Olson, May Mobility’s founder and CEO, is an associate professor of computer science and engineering.

6 months in business, autonomous vehicles on the road: Meet Ann Arbor’s May Mobility

Edwin Olson, May Mobility’s founder and CEO, is an associate professor of computer science and engineering. Benzinga reports.

May Mobility is a self-driving startup with a decade of experience

Edwin Olson, May Mobility’s founder and CEO, is an associate professor of computer science and engineering.

Bedrock to test May Mobility autonomous shuttle this week

Edwin Olson, May Mobility’s founder and CEO, is an associate professor of computer science and engineering.

May Mobility steers itself to $11.6M

Edwin Olson, May Mobility’s founder and CEO, is an associate professor of computer science and engineering. Global University Venturing reports.

Ask AI: How not to kill online conversations

Qiaozhu Mei, EECS professor, and colleagues trained a machine-learning program on about 63,000 Reddit threads to learn what dialog-ending responses look like.

U of M team developing ‘unhackable’ computer

Todd Austin, CSE professor, led the research.

How to create the unhackable computer

Todd Austin, CSE professor, led the research. Healthcare News Analytics reports.

DARPA takes chip route to ‘unhackable’ computers

Todd Austin, CSE professor, led the research.

A new type of computer could render many software hacks obsolete

Todd Austin, CSE professor, led the research.

US military backs project to create unhackable ‘Morpheus’ computer that can thwart hackers ‘like a Rubik’s cube’

Todd Austin, CSE professor, led the research.

DARPA backs development of “unhackable” Morpheus computer system

Todd Austin, EECS professor, lead the research. New Atlas reports.

Too late to upgrade election defenses?

J. Alex Halderman, EECS professor, is quoted.

Local experts weigh in on net neutrality as FCC considers new regulations

Harsha Madhyastha, EECS associate professor, is quoted.

The time to hack-proof the 2018 election is expiring — and Congress is way behind

J. Alex Halderman, EECS professor, is quoted.

Ann Arbor cements its status as a tech hub to watch with first unicorn

Dug Song, Michigan Engineering alum, is CEO and co-founder of Duo Security, an Ann Arbor-based startup.

Tony Fadell’s next act? Taking on Silicon Valley—from Paris

Alumni Tony Fadell (BSE CE 1991) searches for investments with his venture firm Future Shape while he continues to build roots in Paris.

VAuth tech feels your voice in your skin

Kang Shin, EECS professor, has developed a wearable device that can take the form of a necklace, ear buds or a small attachment to eyeglasses. New Atlas reports.

U-M to study flexible STEM classrooms

NSF funding will help EECS associate professor Cindy Finelli and AERO research fellow Aaron Johnson continue their research.

Phone browsing could become faster, may use less data with smart code

Harsha Madhyastha, EECS assistant professor, is one of Vroom’s developers.

Smart code helps your phone browse the web twice as quickly

U-M researchers have found a way to boost performance without security compromises.

Many county election officials still lack cybersecurity training

J. Alex Halderman, EECS professor, is quoted.

Why India needs a paper trail for free and fair elections

J. Alex Halderman, EECS professor, led a group of scientists in hacking an electronic voting machine to reveal vulnerabilities.

Our voting system is hackable by foreign powers

J. Alex Halderman, EECS professor, says that he and his students could have changed the results of the November election.

Professor who urged an election recount thinks Trump won, but voting integrity still concerns him

J. Alex Halderman, EECS professor, continues to seek data from the states — Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — that could help him determine if anything improper affected the election results. Story in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Clinc raises venture capital round of $6.3 million

Jason Mars and Lingjia Tang, EECS research professors, co-founded Clinc. The company whose open-source intelligent assistant and machine learning research platform is involved in research programs with Intel Corp., IBM Corp. and the National Science Foundation.

Why some apps use fake progress bars

Eytan Adar, EECS professor, describes this “benevolent deception” used by sites and apps. In a paper he published in 2013 with a pair of Microsoft researchers, Adar described a wide range of design decisions that trick their users—but end up leaving them better off.

Not the time to make voting less secure

J. Alex Halderman, EECS professor, and other computer scientists have demonstrated repeatedly that voting machines are susceptible to hacking. He has also expressed doubt in the security of elections.

How powerful AI technology can lead to unforeseen disasters

Benjamin Kuipers, EECS professor, explains that although humans typically program AI-powered robots to accomplish a particular goal, these robots will typically make decisions on their own to reach the goal.

Johnson: Michigan may boost post-election audits

Alex Halderman, EECS professor, said routine audits of the state’s paper ballots would help ensure the results are accurate and safe from hackers.

Five things that got broken at the oddest hacking event in the world

J Alex Halderman, EECS professor, and Matt Bernhard, EECS graduate student, discuss attempts to prove that the U.S. election wasn’t hacked.

Vesper grabs $15M to build a durable low-power mic that listens forever

Vesper’s technology, which emerged in part from U-M, is constantly listening, but it is doing so with an incredibly low-power draw as it seeks out the frequencies characteristic of a human voice.

U-M researchers create helpful tool for Flint residents during ongoing water crisis

University of Michigan researchers have developed a new app aimed at helping Flint residents during the ongoing water crisis in the city.

Blaming Russia to overturn the election

Exhibit A in Stein’s petition is an affidavit from Professor J. Alex Halderman, a professor of computer science at the University of Michigan, who alleges that Russia hacked the election.

Trump allowed to join fight against Pennsylvania recount

According to an affidavit in the earlier state case filed by J. Alex Halderman, a professor of computer science at U-M, hackers could have easily infected Pennsylvania’s voting machines with malware designed to lay dormant for weeks.

Tech advances leave society open to mass-murdering computer geeks

Dr. Kevin Fu, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, said hackers could target multiple hospitals and cause a “massive, nation-wide healthcare outage.”

GOP files federal appeal but Mich. recount continues

Alex Halderman, a computer science professor from the University of Michigan explains how a Michigan recount filed by Jill Stein’s campaign could reveal tampering with voting machines.

Russia weaponized social media in U.S. election, FireEye Says

Alex Halderman, a professor of Computer Science at U-M, said hackers could have infected Pennsylvania’s voting machines with malware designed to lay dormant for weeks, pop up on Election Day and then erase itself without a trace.

Vote recount push advances, but reversing Trump’s win is unlikely

The Stein campaign is seeking to answer the question of whether the vote was hacked by introducing malicious software into voting machines. The possibility was raised by J. Alex Halderman, a computer science professor at U-M.

The election probably wasn’t hacked. But Clinton should request recounts just in case.

“Were this year’s deviations from pre-election polls the results of a cyberattack? Probably not,” Halderman writes. “I believe the most likely explanation is that the polls were systematically wrong, rather than that the election was hacked.”

Alex Halderman: we will never know if the Wisconsin vote was hacked unless we check now

Alex Halderman, professor of Computer Science at UM has clarified his earlier remarks about the integrity of the Wisconsin election: in a nutshell: voting machine security sucks, hackers played an unprecedented role in this election.

Hacked or not, audit this election (And all future ones)

On Wednesday, University of Michigan computer security researcher Alex Halderman published a blog post arguing that Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania should perform recounts due to risks that the election was hacked.

Trump election: Activists call for recount in battleground states

According to a CNN report, a group of scientists including J Alex Halderman, director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society, has privately told the Clinton campaign it believes there was a “questionable trend”.

Want to know if the election was hacked? Look at the ballots

UM Computer Science Professor Alex Halderman: a skilled attacker’s work might leave no visible signs–though the country might be surprised when results in several close states were off from pre-election polls.

Vulnerable connected devices a matter of ‘homeland security’

“In the short term, consumers are pretty much up a creek without a paddle,” says Kevin Fu, associate professor in the electrical engineering and computer science department at the University of Michigan.

Regulate cybersecurity or expect a disaster, experts warn Congress

“I fear for the day every hospital system is down,” Kevin Fu, who teaches computer security at the University of Michigan, told the hearing. “This will require some kind of governmental mandate.”

How you speak to Siri & Alexa matters more than you think — here’s why

“If we want the computers to behave differently, we have to actually pay attention to how we build them so we don’t just create mirrors of what society does,” says Rada Milhacea, a professor of computer science at U-M.

Evolving technologies pose challenge for medical device security

“A Brief Chronology of Medical Device Security” is the result of THaW, which is funded by the NSF. A.J. Burns, professor at UT–Tyler, and P. Honeyman, research professor of CS at U-M, collaborated on the article.

How safe is your smart home?

Atul Prakash is a computer science professor at the University of Michigan. He specializes in computer security. “I would be cautious, overall,” Prakash advises. “The technology is relatively new.

The network standard used in cars is wide open to attack

According to research presented last month at the ACM Conference, courtesy of computer scientists at U-M, the (CAN) protocol implemented by in-vehicle networks has a new and potentially quite dangerous vulnerability.

A lot of voting machines are broken across America (but it’s totally normal)

And this year is no different, as voting machines have always been vulnerable, said Matt Bernhard, computer science Ph.D. student at U-M and an expert on the security of electoral systems.

US election: Experts keep watch over ‘hack states’

“Unless the election is extraordinarily close, it is unlikely that an attack will result in the wrong candidate getting elected,” suggest Matt Bernhard and Professor J Alex Halderman, security experts from U-M.

The security challenges of online voting have not gone away

Matthew Bernhard, second-year computer science Ph.D student at U-M, and J. Alex Halderman, director of U-M’s Center for Computer Security and Society, emphasize online voting’s longstanding security challenges and setbacks.

Forget rigged polls: Internet voting is the real election threat

It was the office of Alex Halderman, a computer science professor at U-M. The hackers were graduate students, proving a point about Washington, D.C.’s fledgling voting system: that internet voting is vulnerable.

This is why we still can’t vote online

J. Alex Halderman, professor of CS at U-M, welcomed the opportunity to try to legally break into government software with his students. Within 36 hours, they found a tiny error that gave them full control of the system.

Notion raises $9.5M for a smarter email app, now live on mobile and soon, Alexa

“We have focused on building a great engineering team and also tapped the resources in our network, like U-M’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, and Computer Science professor Jason Mars as an advisor.”

Experts: State should audit election results

“It should be done routinely in order to provide a strong degree of confidence,” said U-M cyber-security expert Alex Halderman. “That’s an opportunity for Michigan to improve its election procedures. You should audit every election.”

Why can’t we vote online?

During the pilot, folks were invited to try and hack the system. At U-M, Professor J. Alex Halderman and his students took up the challenge. It took them about 36 hours to change votes.

U-M data science projects explore connection between student achievement, well-being

Security risks in the age of smart homes

University of Michigan joint institute gets $10M gift

John Wu, EECS alum, and his wife, Jane Sun, have given U-M’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute is getting a $10 million donation.

Utah is correct to both be at the front of online voting, and cautiously study security

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