Media Relations
Monday,
March 8,
2004
Computer Science
Indiana University School of Informatics Dean Bobby Schnabel will be one of 12 people honored at the White House on Friday, Dec. 9, for leading efforts to recruit and retain girls and women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.
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An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by two Indiana University Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing professors has been recognized with one of the most prestigious privacy technology awards for the team's work in uncovering how the genetic identities of human participants can be uncovered from the results of genome-wide association studies.
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When the Intrepid and Jugene supercomputers earned the top two honors in last month's Graph 500 ranking of the world's best performing supercomputers, researchers from the IU Open Systems Lab (OSL) had good reason to cheer. For the second straight ranking, an OSL team led by computer science researcher Jeremiah Willcock contributed to benchmarking these supercomputers' abilities to search and access massive data sets.
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Long considered the shining example of computer security, Apple Macintosh computers are becoming serious targets of cyberattacks, according to Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research Deputy Director Von Welch. Mac users have recently been targeted by, and are increasingly falling victim to, a fake software program called "MacDefender," which poses as an anti-virus program that tricks users into installing it.
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Indiana University Bloomington's School of Informatics and Computing (SOIC) website, designed by IU's Office of Public Affairs and Government Relations, has been nominated to receive a Webby Award from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
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Youth in need of mentoring, an environment challenged by human impacts, victims of domestic violence, and families working to enrich the lives of their developmentally disabled loved ones: Four Bloomington non-profits serving these impacted groups each received a boost over technology hurdles they faced thanks to a new IT clinic at IU Bloomington's School of Informatics and Computing (SOIC).
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