On October 16, 2023, the Uptane community officially released a new and improved version of its website. This somewhat radical reinvention was introduced because, while users affirmed that the existing website contained a lot of useful information, they felt it was not particularly easy to navigate. Uptane, an open source secure software update system for...
Figure Caption: An illustration of two countermeasures to address material-level attacks on microfluidic biochips. On the left, an ML-based material authentication scheme where a simple punch test (F), coupled with a load cell, can authenticate whether the material’s composition is correct. On the right, a laser shining UV light (λ) on the dye-doped microvalve, provides...
Photo courtesy of Governor Hochul’s webpage at https://www.flickr.com/photos/govkathyhochul/sets/72177720310362995/ On August 9, Governor Kathy Hochul introduced New York State’s first plan to protect digital infrastructure in a special presentation at NYU Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn. According to an article by Jada Camille that appeared in Brooklyn Paper.com (https://www.brooklynpaper.com/hochul-statewide-cybersecurity-strategy/), the plan “outlined how the state...
In the spring of 2022, NYU announced receipt of a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant covers the work of three teams of researchers at NYU Tandon, including CCS affiliated faculty Dr. Ramesh Karri and Dr. Siddharth Garg. According to an NYU Research Brief released when the grant was announced (see...
Pictured (from l to r): Kylie Watson, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation; Jason Harrell, Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC); Edward Amoroso, TAG Cyber; and Joel Caminer, NYU Center for Cybersecurity. Anyone who signed up to hear keynote speaker Jason Harrell from The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) at the 13th AIG-Sponsored Cyber Security Lecture might...
Photo Caption: (Left to Right): Phil Venables, Chief Information Security Officer of Google Cloud; Shih-Fu Chang, Dean of Columbia Engineering; Greg Morrisett, Dean and Vice Provost Cornell Tech, Cornell University; Kurt Becker, Vice Dean of Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, NYU; Joshua Brumberg, Dean for the Sciences at The CUNY Graduate Center. Photo courtesy of Google...
Dr. Nasir Memon, Vice Dean for Academic and Student Affairs and Professor of Computer Science at NYU Tandon, and department head of NYU Tandon Online, is taking on a new challenge this fall. On June 9, 2023, NYU announced that he would be assuming the post of Interim Dean of Computer Science, Data Science, and...
Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay Are important issues regarding the use of artificial intelligence tools getting lost in a swirl of speculation about their emerging “personalities”? A recent article in Popular Science suggests that “humanizing” generative AI chatbots could be distracting programmers and designers “from more serious and immediate dangers of the developing technology.”...
In April, 2023, Intel announced its list of outstanding academic researchers for the previous year. Among the seven individual honored was Ramesh Karri, an NYU Tandon Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and co-founder and co-chair of NYU’s Center for Cybersecurity. The annual award program recognizes “exceptional contributions made through Intel university-sponsored research.” Karri was selected for his...
In September of 2022, New York University and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced a historic partnership that would, among other things, “lay the groundwork for a joint presence in New York City—KAIST’s first campus in the United States.” On February 23 and 24, representatives from both institutions gathered at 370...