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Researchers designed three new systems to speed up code at several key bottlenecks.

The team’s new tool will combine of software and data to make gathering structured data dramatically easier.

Up to this point, no attacks had been discovered targeting a car’s LiDAR system—but a major new finding from researchers at the University of Michigan has demonstrated what that might look like.

Using real-time fMRI readings, researchers linked spatial reasoning with CS problem solving.

Erie provided database repairs that were previously performed exclusively by human programmers.

The research generated a chatbot to help users sift through important details in privacy policies.

The research suggests that common blacklist-based prevention systems are ineffective.

Top Picks is an annual special edition of IEEE Micro magazine that acknowledges the 10-12 most significant research papers.

This is the fifth time that Prof. Chen has been named Professor of the Year by EECS students.

Chen’s dissertation research was dedicated to developing proactive defense approaches to the new security challenges of a hyper-connected world.

Edge Fabric offers providers real-time performance analysis and a way to incorporate this data into routing decisions.

Chowdhury’s work has produced important results that can make memory in data centers both cheaper and more efficient.

Halderman will work to further educate lawmakers, future cybersecurity experts, and the public about how to ensure that election results can relied upon and verified

The meeting began the commission’s review and assessment of election security in Michigan.

The effort seeks to protect the integrity of every vote.

Chowdhury connects all unused memory in a data cluster and treats it as a single unit.

Chowdhury’s lab multiplied the number of jobs a GPU cluster can finish in a set amount of time

In congressional testimony, professor urges $370M in federal funding to replace outdated machines.

Graphs that are customized, stored locally, and able to change over time can enable faster and more accurate searching and digital assistants

Kasikci presents a method to improve a program’s ability to use data in a straightforward, efficient way

Ten years ago, Prof. Westley Weimer set out to shave off time and expenditure sunk into patch fixes.

“Thanks to his tireless support and unparalleled patience, I am now equipped with a fundamental research skill set.”

McDonald works to develop better privacy and security tools for marginalized communities

Censored Planet could provide new insight into the flow of online information

Jagadish will help lead MIDAS into its next stage and further expand data science efforts across disciplines.

SkyCore is a complete software solution to deploying mobile networks on unmanned drones

A team of researchers unearthed new data on geographic denial of access to web content in a new paper.

A new special topics course on election cybersecurity gives students an examination of the past, present, and future of US elections.

Researchers have implemented a new way to diagnose software failures with a high degree of accuracy and efficiency.

“The work is an important step towards understanding how to make tradeoffs between usability and security.”

Patches can provide protection.

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Foofah is a tool that can help to minimize the effort and required background knowledge needed to clean up data.

Jie Song devised a method to combine summarized datasets that group information by incompatible units.

Ozay is one of four U-M faculty members selected to receive a Henry Russel Award for 2019. The Award is one of the university’s highest honors for junior faculty members.

When it comes to their smartphones, immigrants struggle to apply instinctive caution, according to a study by a team of University of Michigan researchers.

This award is given to the VLDB paper published ten years earlier that has had the most influence since its publication.

The day when cars can talk to each other – and to traffic lights, stop signs, guardrails and even pavement markings – is rapidly approaching.

A new approach recreates the power of a large server by linking up and pooling the resources of smaller computers with fast networking technology.

U-M profs weigh new business model, European-style regulation

Profs. Jia Deng, Roya Ensafi, and Manos Kapritsos have been selected to receive Google Faculty Research Awards.

Professor Alex Halderman and the New York Times staged a mock election to demonstrate voting machine vulnerability.

The vulnerability allows an attacker to manipulate a new intelligent traffic control algorithm and cause severe traffic jams.

In this video, CSE PhD Student Matt Bernhard weighs in on the matter Facebook data harvesting, such as that done by Cambridge Analytica.

Automated chatbot uses artificial intelligence to weed through fine print

The researchers, including Prof. Harsha Madhyastha and CSE graduate students Vaspol Ruamviboonsuk and Muhammed Uluyol, received prize for their paper, “Vroom: Accelerating the Mobile Web with Server-Aided Dependency Resolution.”

A long-standing tenet of the internet was overturned today.

How much can your cellphone reveal about where you go?

On Dec. 14, the FCC will vote on the rules that today ensure internet service providers treat all web content equally.

Their paper introduces a new programming language and tool called Vale that supports flexible, automated verification of high-performance assembly code.

Verdict can make databases deliver answers more than 200 times faster while maintaining 99 percent accuracy.

New Vroom software could double its speed.

His remarks focused on vulnerabilities in the US voting system and a policy agenda for securing the system against the threat of hacking.

The gift supplemented the Computer Science and Engineering Special Projects Fund.

New software finally makes ‘memory disaggregation’ practical.

On the faculty since 1998, Noble was most recently associate dean for undergraduate education.

Jack has enjoyed involvement in research across diverse domains within the College of Engineering.

Researchers have for the first time characterized a widespread vulnerability in the software that runs on mobile devices.

Chen investigates how to develop defense approaches that can fundamentally address security challenges in existing and future smart systems.

Prof. Mozafari is passionate about building large-scale data-intensive systems that are more scalable, more robust, and more predictable.

Prof. Madhyastha seeks to enable the cloud provider to monitor traffic on behalf of all the web services hosted on its platform.

Andrew’s research creates cluster-scale systems that allow developers to quickly understand and debug programs.

Prof. Flinn has been an active researcher in the field of mobile computing for a number of years.

Prof. Madhyastha’s recent research has focused on enabling latency-sensitive web services to optimize user experience.

The USENIX Test of Time Awards recognizes papers presented at its respective conference from at least 10 years ago that have had a lasting impact on their fields.

Still, it’s not guaranteed, as seen in Amazon’s same-day delivery service. Algorithm designers may not even realize a problem has crept in.

DROWN allows attackers to break encryption used to protect HTTPS websites and read or steal sensitive communications.

In order to bring HTTPS to everyone, Prof. Halderman joined forces in 2012 with colleagues at Mozilla and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to found Let’s Encrypt, a non-profit certificate authority with the mission of making the switch to HTTPS vastly easier.

The Big Data Summer Bootcamp is a six-week interdisciplinary training and research program at the University of Michigan.

The annual SIGKDD doctoral dissertation award recognizes excellent research by doctoral candidates in the field of data mining and knowledge discovery.

One of the paper describes and demonstrates a malicious hardware backdoor. The other demonstrated security failings in a commercial smart home platform.

Klotski seeks to improve users’ perceptions of how quickly a page loads by maximizing the amount of important content on the page that is fetched and displayed within the user’s attention span.

Prof. Chowdhury bridges the gap between application-level performance and network-level optimizations through the coflow abstraction.

New security ramifications exist when laptops and smartphones configured for enterprise systems are used outside the enterprise in the realm of the wider web.

Not all online traffic is the same; should we treat it the same anyway?

A weakness believed to exist in Android, Windows and iOS operating systems could be used to obtain personal information from unsuspecting users, research at the University of Michigan has shown.

Congratulations to Profs Bertacco, Flinn, Narayanasamy, Olson, Rais-Zadeh, and Zhong.