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K-12 online learning platform sees big rise in use

Daily webinars available for teachers interested in exploring the free customizable tools.

Hessam Mahdavifar receives CAREER award to empower next gen communication

Mahdavifar is preparing for a future of billions of connected devices and an unprecedented increase in mobile traffic.

Sandeep Pradhan receives Education Excellence Award from the College of Engineering

Pradhan is honored for his dedication to students and commitment to improving education at all levels.

PET Award for making privacy policies easier to read

The research generated a chatbot to help users sift through important details in privacy policies.

The new law that will guide the future of information processing

The law of small numbers could impact the next generation of tools that deal with data.

U-M, Cavium partner on Big Data research computing platform

The new partnership will provide scalable storage and an analytic software framework available to all U-M researchers.

Claude Shannon: information icon

Early theoretical solutions led to practical applications that continue to power our digital world, while his inventions spanned the spectrum from playful to paramount.

Claude Shannon centennial celebrants recall U-M grad’s advances, societal impact

Shannon theorized the binary code of zeros and ones that makes cell phones, email and the Internet possible.

The Promise and Perils of Predictive Policing Based on Big Data

Such tactics, even if effective in reducing crime, raise civil liberty concerns.

Advancing computation: 4th U-M alum wins Turing Award

The Turing Award has honors the computer scientists and engineers who create the systems and underlying theoretical foundations that propel the information technology industry.

Shared Memory in Mobile Operating Systems Provides Ingress Point for Hackers

Researchers Expose Security Flaws in Backscatter X-ray Scanners

Computer scientists author book on hardware prefetching

Duncan Steel will advance quantum information processes in new MURI

Steel will concentrate his efforts on solid state systems, specifically with epitaxially grown InAs/lGaAs semiconductor quantum dots.