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Google wants your phone number — should you provide it?

Damon McCoy, professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon and Ph.D. student Periwinkle Doerfler contributed to the research cited in the this article. … The reading in question being a posting on the Google security blog by researchers Kurt Thomas and Angelika Moscicki. They looked at research conducted by Google in association with...

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Your Guide to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU

Following on the heels of DockerCon SF, the team is packing their bags and heading to Barcelona for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU from May 20- 23. … KubeCon will also provide a great opportunity to learn from industry experts and hear from those working with Kubernetes for their production applications: Intro: TUF / Notary –...

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How Trump is outspending every 2020 democrat on Facebook

Article cites research by Damon McCoy, assistant professor of computer science and engineering and Laura Edelson, a doctoral student, at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. President Trump’s re-election campaign has spent far more than any single Democratic presidential candidate on Facebook advertising, reprising a strategy that was central to his 2016 victory.

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Notable women in technology [Jelena Kovačević]

In 2018, Jelena Kovačević became the first woman to head NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering since its founding in 1854. She has also taught at Columbia University and at Carnegie Mellon University, where she headed the Electrical and Computer Engineering department and taught biomedical engineering. From 2008 to 2012, Kovačević served as a regular member...

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NYU Engineering offers a MicroMasters in Integrated Media on edX

The NYU Tandon School of Engineering joined the edX Consortium, and its first offering will be a MicroMasters in Integrated Media. This program, which is open for enrollment, consists of three courses followed by a capstone project (for a total of $900). “Our partnership with edX allows us to offer yet another pathway to becoming...

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Artificial Neural Network: Artificial Neural Network Approach to Predict the Elastic Modulus from Dynamic Mechanical Analysis Results (Adv. Theory Simul. 4/2019)

In article number 1800131, Xianbo Xu and Nikhil Gupta report on combining an artificial neural network and viscoelastic theory to recover the elastic modulus of graphene‐reinforced composites from dynamic mechanical analysis results. Instead of conducting numerous tensile tests, the method can predict the elastic modulus over a range of strain rates and temperatures from a...

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STEM programs in US still working towards gender parity

Fei Chen is a Ph.D student at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, developing methods to make 3D printing technology more secure. … Fei is among a growing cohort of women, working under Professor Nikhil Gupta of NYU Tandon’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department. … NYU Tandon said it leads the curve when it...

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Has the World's First Unhackable Chip Arrived?

Ozgur Sinanoglu is a Research Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Ozgur Sinanoglu is obsessed with computer chips — a passion born at age 10 when his father brought home a Commodore 64. Now 42 and the associate dean of engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi, Sinanoglu...

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Desperate Rental Market Leads to Housing Scams

Features research led by Damon McCoy, professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon. As the summer season approaches, a proliferation of housing scams in the form of false online rental advertisements has caused headaches, dashed hopes and, in some cases, led to substantial loss of money for desperate workers and vacationers already saddled...