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Professor Justin Thaler receives the prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for research on “The Polynomial Method in Complexity and Cryptography”.

January 30, 2019

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Jeremy Fineman awarded Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor designation

Prof. Jeremy Fineman has been awarded the Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor designation at Georgetown University. He is the Wagner Term Chair in Computer.…

January 17, 2019

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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…

January 1, 2019

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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…

December 18, 2018

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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…

October 15, 2018

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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 ).…

October 11, 2018

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

August 10, 2018

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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…

August 8, 2018

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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.…

May 10, 2018

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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.…

April 10, 2018