Hackers and Computer Science What hacker research taught me Although most academics and industry practitioners regard “hacking” as mostly ad-hoc, a loose collection of useful tricks essentially random in nature, I will argue that hacking has in fact become a “distinct research and engineering discipline” with deep underlying engineering ideas…
2011-11-15 – U.S. DHS Science and Technology Directorate, Cyber Security Division, Cyber Security Research & Development Center wins National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for Research
U.S. DHS Science and Technology Directorate, Cyber Security Division, Cyber Security Research & Development Center wins National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for Research View full post on SANS Press Room View full post on National Cyber Security » Announcements
Luke Jerram: The art of technology and science
I recently wrote about a new piece of art from British artist Luke Jerram depicting the seismogram from the Tohoku Japanese Earthquake. Since then, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jerram to learn more about how he integrates technology and science into his artwork. Jerram’s art goes beyond paint and…
Hollywood discovers science is scarier than zombies
Jude Law, right, in the film Contagion. Photo: Warner Bros Entertainment Inc WHEN Professor Ian Lipkin was first approached to work on a movie about a pandemic virus, he was wary. ”Every few years a filmmaker imagined a world in which a virus transformed humans into flesh-eating zombies,” he recalled…
