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• Professor Matt Blaze joins Computer Science and Law faculty

  Matt Blaze, an expert in computer and network security, has joined Georgetown University as a Computer Science and Law professor and the Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S. Chair. Matt comes to Georgetown from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Professor of Computer and Information Science.

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• Professor Cal Newport receives Best Paper Award at OPODIS 2018

  Professor Calvin Newport and co-authors have received the Best Paper Award for their paper “On Simple Back-Off in Unreliable Radio Networks” at the 22nd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS).

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• Nitin Vaidya joins as Chair of the CS department

  Nitin Vaidya joined as Chair of the CS department on July 1, 2018. He previously served as the Associate Head and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Affiliate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include distributed computing, fault-tolerance, machine learning and wireless networks.

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• Zhiwen Tang and Grace Hui Yang received Best Student Paper Award at the 2017 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR).

  Zhiwen Tang and Grace Hui Yang received Best Student Paper Award at the 2017 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR).

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• CNN story about security of voter registration systems: Micah Sherr:

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• Professor Kobbi Nissim receives 2018 TCC Test-of-Time Award

  Kobbi Nissim received the 2018 Test-of-Time Award from the Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC). He previously received the 2017 Gödel Prize and the 2016 Test-of-Time Award from the Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC).

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• Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can’t. Researchers can now send secret audio instructions undetectable to the human ear to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant.

  “Companies have to ensure user-friendliness of their devices, because that’s their major selling point,” said Tavish Vaidya, a researcher at Georgetown.

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• Professor Ophir Frieder is inducted into the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

  Professor Ophir Frieder inducted into the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2018 and elected into 2018 class of Academia Europaea.

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• Is privacy dead? What happens to your data and why it matters.

  Professor Singh discusses data, security, and privacy.

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• Should Computer Education Cover More Than Just Coding?

  …But computers are not just about coding… and those theoretical concepts form the basis of much of computer science education in colleges and universities. Lisa Singh, an associate professor at Georgetown University, stands behind that theoretical approach.

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