March/April 2018

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Preventing deadly hospital infections with machine learning

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Researchers including Prof. Jenna Wiens have developed a tool to help identify those patients at highest risk for C. difficile infections and to aid hospitals in focusing prevention and treatment efforts.

 

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New computing system to enable deep space missions

A new radiation-hardened, multi-processor, Arm-based spacecraft processor is being developed at Michigan in a project led by Boeing and funded by NASA.

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"Sonic attacks" in Cuba: a covert accident?

The "attacks" that sickened U.S. and Canadian government workers in Cuba last year could have been an accidental side effect of attempted eavesdropping.

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Vulnerabilities found in next-gen connected vehicle technology

The flaws allows an attacker to manipulate a new intelligent traffic control system that uses real-time traffic data to cause severe traffic jams.

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Duplicate text detection system in use by conferences

The system is integrated with Softcon's START V2, a web-based solution for managing peer-reviewed conferences and workshops.

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Master's program in data science launched

Developed and taught collaboratively by four units on campus, the Data Science master's program is accepting applications for Fall 2018.

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Chat tool simplifies tricky online privacy policies

At your fingertips: an automated AI chatbot will weed through the fine print of privacy policies so that you will know what you're agreeing to.

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CSE PhD student Matt Bernhard comments on the Facebook data breach

50 million Facebook profiles were harvested by Cambridge Analytica as part of a major data breach, unearthing ethical questions of users' privacy and who is responsible for protecting it.

XPLORE, DISCOVER & MORE

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Summer engineering camps for alumni and kids – sign up today!

College of Engineering alumni are encouraged to visit campus this summer – and bring the next generation of engineers! Learn more about the College of Engineering's Xplore and Discover summer camps.

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