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Rector awarded NSF grant to improve access to trainer-led aerobic exercise for people who are blind

Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Assistant Professor Kyle Rector was recently awarded an NSF Grant entitled "Novel technology for improving access to trainer-led aerobic exercise for people who are blind."...

Bianchi Co-PI in $11.7 Million DARPA CHESS grant

Wednesday, March 20, 2019
DARPA recently awarded a Computers and Humans Exploring Software Security (CHESS) grant entitled "CHECRS: Cognitive Human Enhancements for Cyber Reasoning Systems"...

Nithyanand receives 2018 Google Faculty Research Award

Friday, March 15, 2019
Assistant Professor Rishab Nithyanand has received a 2018 Google Faculty Research Award for his proposal that seeks to "...

Bianchi awarded NSF grant to improve mobile security and privacy

Thursday, March 7, 2019
Assistant Professor Antonio Bianchi was recently awarded an NSF Grant entitled "Vetting and Improving the Usage of Trusted Execution Environments for Authentication in Mobile Devices."...

UI faculty tout benefits of working with media to promote research

Kearney [Hank Lab co-director] says the benefits of publicity are both long-term and short-term. In the short term, publicity can help a researcher secure grant funding.

Ethereum Foundation Grant to Support Aaron Stump's Research

Thursday, February 28, 2019
The Ethereum Foundation has given $25,097 to The University of Iowa to support the research of Prof. Aaron Stump, Computer Science.

Chowdhury et al.: New flaws in 4G, 5G allow attackers to intercept calls and track phone locations

Friday, February 22, 2019
"The paper [... ] details the attacks: the first is ToRPEDO, which exploits a weakness in the paging protocol that carriers use to notify a phone before a call or text message comes through.

CS Alumna featured in "Iowa ‘Grows Its Own’ to Fill the HPC Workforce Pipeline"

UI Research Services Director Ben Rogers accepts the fact that Iowa’s specialists are courted by corporate recruiters.

AMCS Alum/Segre Advisee: From a Church in Philadelphia, Sports Reference Informs the World

Sports Reference’s seven websites are usually updated automatically, mostly from official feeds of statistics that the company pays for.

Jones on "Georgia voting irregularities..." - Politico

"It's the Catch-22 that's been around forever where you can't get any legal support [to investigate] unless you've got proof that something went wrong.