Damon McCoy’s research on spyware is on the front page the New York Times and jumps to all of page 11. His student, Periwinkle Doerfer, is quoted.
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Frequently Published Tandon Materials Scientist Takes to Editing
Nikhil Gupta, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has seen his research on 3D printing of syntactic foams, cybersecurity in 3D printing, surgical applications for magnesium, and much more published in premier scholarly journals like the prestigious Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (JOM). Now he is editing two special issues of...
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NYU Center for Cybersecurity Intern Captures Prestigious Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Prize
At the 2018 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), the world’s largest international pre-college science competition, high school student Suha Hussain took home a second-place prize of $1,500 in the Systems Software category for her project “A New Method for the Exploitation of Speech Recognition Systems,” which she completed under the direction of...
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Tandon Grad Student Wins Awards for His Computer Science Research
How can we identify minute, confusing snippets of code to make programming more efficient? Dan Gopstein, a Ph.D. candidate in NYU Tandon’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has in recent months received two distinguished paper awards for publications discussing just that. Gopstein presented “Atoms of Confusion,” which was prepared under the guidance of Professor...
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Now more than ever, cars are just rolling computers
Click here to listen to Professor Justin Cappos discuss cybersecurity in the automotive industry.
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Uber’s self-driving cars to return to testing tracks
‘If there was a war or escalation with a country with strong cyber capability, I would be very afraid of hacking of vehicles. Many of our enemies are nuclear powers but any nation with the ability to launch a cyberstrike could kill millions of civilians by hacking cars,’ warned Justin Cappos,a computer scientist at New...
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Policing modern slavery: Software that detects human trafficking
Software can also identify pimps. Damon McCoy of New York University has developed a program that has helped police unearth five big suspected prostitution rings in California and Texas…
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Worries grow over privacy, security & tech: NYU Cyber Security Expert Justin Cappos
Click here to listen to Professor Cappos’ Podcast.
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New York University Scientists Trace Cybercrime Banking Networks and Win Best Research Paper Award
The authors, Dr. Damon McCoy and Hongwei Tian of New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering and D. Sean West and Stephen M. Gaffigan of SMGPA found that their research program wasn’t as simple as shooting tracers in the cloud, as the corrupt merchants quickly responded with evasive action.
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Finally, an inexpensive vibration sensor that signals blade problems
A cleverly simple vibration sensor made of a loop of thin fiber-optic cable and a fixed wavelength laser promises to take cost out of turbine-blade maintenance by letting owners spot problems as they occur. The device, already with two patents, won $150,000 for further development in New York’s PowerBridge competition. “This will let us form...