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Hank Lab: Can your smartphone stop you from getting hit by a car?

"What Kearney’s studying—known as V2P (vehicle-to-pedestrian) technology—already exists between cars.

Can Warnings Help Texting Pedestrians Safely Cross Roads? Pooya Rahimian on BBC World Service

"In the US alone last year more than 5000 pedestrians were killed on the roads and there were 70,000 pedestrian injuries involving motor vehicle collisions.

UI researchers use AI to block ads better than today's ad-blockers

Wednesday, May 30, 2018
"Brave’s Chief Scientist, Dr.

Jones on "Not Just Ballots: Tennessee Hack Shows Election Websites Are Vulnerable, Too"

Thursday, May 17, 2018
'Malicious cyber actors shut down the county website and broke into the web server, according to county officials and a report done by the cyber security firm Sword and Shield. [..

CS Faculty Joe Kearney Named Interim Dean of CLAS

Kearney is a successful researcher in the Hank Virtual Environments Lab. [...

Chowdhury on Daily Iowan's "University of Iowa students not about to delete Facebook"

UI Assistant Professor Omar Haider Chowdhury, whose research includes computer security and privacy, said that although Facebook is making strides to be more transparent, he believes it could improve.