
Four Engineering Professors Named as Fellows
This year, four UCR Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering professors were named Fellows in recognition to their contributions and extraordinary achievements to advancing science. Electrical and computer engineering professor Albert Wang has been named Fellow of the National Academy for Inventors (NAI), computer science and engineering professor Stefano...

New attacks on graphics processors endanger user privacy
Hackers can use the graphics processing unit to spy on web activity, steal passwords, and break into cloud-based applications

New security flaw discovered in Wi-Fi routers
Hackers can use your wireless router to extract information, and there’s not much you can do to stop them

Fake news can’t fool new algorithm
An algorithm that can already detect fake news stories with 75 percent accuracy gets a boost from Snap Research

New Spectre cyberthreat evades patches
New speculative execution attack launches from a computer’s return stack buffer, not the branch predictor

New data science major promotes diversity in high-tech
Program will build new educational pathways in computing or technology for students, especially women, who otherwise would not study these subjects in college
Microchips can permanently link patients with clinical samples
Project to embed patient data directly in biological samples receives Gates Foundation funding