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  • 30 Years Ago, the World’s First Cyberattack Set the Stage for Modern Cybersecurity Challenges

    30 Years Ago, the World’s First Cyberattack Set the Stage for Modern Cybersecurity Challenges0

    • Design & Technology
    • November 6, 2018

    Back in November 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, son of the famous cryptographer Robert Morris Sr., was a 20-something graduate student at Cornell who wanted to know how big the internet was – that is, how many devices were connected to it. So he wrote a program that would travel from computer to computer and ask

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  • Technology is Making Cities ‘Smart’, But it’s Also Costing the Environment

    Technology is Making Cities ‘Smart’, But it’s Also Costing the Environment0

    • Design & Technology, Motion
    • July 30, 2018

    The Australian government has allocated A$50 million for the Smarter Cities and Suburbs Program to encourage projects that “improve the livability, productivity and sustainability of cities and towns across Australia”. One project funded under the program is the installation of temperature, lighting and motion sensors in buildings and bus interchanges in Woden, ACT. This will

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  • So You Trust Your Hardware?

    So You Trust Your Hardware?0

    • Design & Technology
    • October 29, 2017

    Smaller chips, sneakier attacks. How is the move towards small transistors exposing us to malicious attacks?

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  • 6 Ways Machines Can Help Kids with Autism

    6 Ways Machines Can Help Kids with Autism0

    • Design & Technology
    • October 5, 2017

    The story of an Autistic Child and the Robot who taught her to socialize.

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  • From Sensing Proximity to Understanding Crowd Behavior

    From Sensing Proximity to Understanding Crowd Behavior0

    • Design & Technology, Share Your Science
    • March 28, 2017

    How do users interact with products in a store? What is the best disposition of artwork in a museum? How can airports prevent queue formation at security checks? Predicting crowd behavior through proximity sensors is not that far ahead in the future.

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  • The Reconstruction of Ships: Sailing the Seas of International Collaboration

    The Reconstruction of Ships: Sailing the Seas of International Collaboration0

    • Design & Technology
    • December 7, 2016

    The study of ancient ships can uncover great knowledge about past and future civilizations. The ShipLAB wants to make it a worldwide collaborative effort. Computers are changing archaeology as much as they are changing the world. Maritime archaeologists welcome these developments, perhaps mostly in the subfield of nautical archaeology, which studies the history of watercraft. Computers

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