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USENIX Test of Time Award

Prof. Peter Honeyman, CSE alumnus Niels Provos, and Markus Friedl have received the USENIX Test of Time Award for their paper on privilege separation, an approach that lets parts of an application run with different levels of privilege.

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The Problem with eVoting

Prof. J. Alex Halderman appeared on C-SPAN to discuss vulnerabilities associated with electronic voting and to answer viewer questions. It's worth watching this 40-minute video segment of the C-SPAN airing.

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Six New Faculty in CSE

CSE welcomes six new faculty to Michigan: William Arthur, Hector Garcia, Manos Kapritsos, Baris Kasikci, Andrew Lukefahr, and Arunesh Sinha. We look forward to their contributions to our growing Division.

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Shadows in the Dark Web

Secrets lurk in the dark web, the 95 percent of the internet that most of us can't see. Prof. Michael Cafarella is bringing some of those secrets to light, and in the process making the digital and the real world a little safer.

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TRI and UM Team Up On Autonomy

Toyota Research Institute is partnering with the University of Michigan on research related to artificial intelligence, robotics, and autonomous driving. CSE faculty are playing key roles at TRI's new Ann Arbor research facility.

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Robots That Reach Through Clutter

Prof. Chad Jenkins has been awarded an NSF National Robotics Initiative grant to improve the ability of robots to manipulate and interact with objects in cluttered environments, such as when assisting people. 

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Downvote on Security Report

Michigan researchers including Prof. Kevin Fu recently reproduced experiments alleging security flaws in St. Jude Medical's pacemakers and other life-saving medical devices and concluded that those claims were questionable.

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A Kickstart Into Computing

About 25 Freshman women got a hands-on introduction to CS through CS Kickstart, a new week-long program that encourages women without prior programming experience to consider studying computer science.

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NSF, Seed Funding for AI Startup

Intelligent personal assistant startup Clinc, founded by Profs. Jason Mars and Lingjia Tang along with current and former CSE students, has announced an NSF grant and $1.2M in seed funding.

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Sony Invests in AI Startup

Sony has partnered with Cogitai, a startup cofounded by Prof. Satinder Singh Baveja. A continual learning company, Cogitai develops technology that allows AIs to learn and get smarter from interactions with the real world.