In 2015 and 2016, hackers caused massive power outages in Ukraine during one of the coldest times of the year. The December 2015 attack, which left 225,000 Ukrainians without electricity for the better part of a day, was the first known instance of a successful cyberattack on a nation’s power grid. Ukrainian officials blamed the […]
Last spring, doctoral candidate Ryan Cotterell was named Johns Hopkins’ first Facebook Fellow —one of just 13 chosen from more than 800 international applicants. The prestigious award supports promising PhD students who are engaged “in innovative and relevant research” in computer science and engineering by providing significant funding for tuition, $5,000 for travel, and a […]
Wired reports on the massive hack affecting as many as 500 million customers who made a reservation at a Starwood hotel. Matthew Green, associate professor of computer science, is quoted.
Gregory Hager and K.T. Ramesh are both faculty members in the Whiting School of Engineering.
She is one of 32 American students to win the prestigious international award
Miami Herald reports that dozens of lawmakers in Congress use tracking tools on their websites to collect personal information about online visitors, despite the fact that those lawmakers are often vocal critics of privacy practices employed by social media companies like Facebook. Yinzhi Cao, assistant professor of computer science, is quoted.
“Students are often intimidated to do the Combined Bachelor’s/Master’s Program because of the cost of one undergraduate degree,” said Nirmal Krishnan, a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science. Krishnan obtained a Bachelor’s in Computer Science in May 2018. He will soon obtain his Master’s in Computer Science in December 2018 and is one […]
Nature reports on NeuroData, a free, cloud-based collection of web services that allows researchers to explore terabytes of brain images in multiple formats. Randal Burns, interim chair of the Department of Computer Science, and Joshua Vogelstein, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, are quoted and mentioned.
With a $1.5 million award from the National Science Foundation, Johns Hopkins computer scientists will explore how human-machine teaming can help mitigate some of the biggest problems facing the U.S health care system.
Kelly Culotta joined the CS department as Senior Academic Program Coordinator in October 2018. She will assist the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Joanne Selinski, in supporting the undergraduate program by helping with academic advising, course scheduling, and event logistics. In May of 2018, Kelly received her B.A. in Psychology and French from St. Mary’s College […]
