Five boffins from four US universities have explored AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology – and found its defenses can be, in certain circumstances, bypassed with a bit of effort. In a paper [PDF] presented Tuesday at the ACM Asia Conference on … Read more
Carolina Technology Consultants brought together the University’s IT professionals and sparked discussion of the latest technologies at its annual BarCamp unconference on May 23. About 30 people attended CTC’s half-day unconference, held at the Department of Computer Science’s Sitterson and … Read more
Mohit Bansal, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and director of the UNC-NLP Lab, received a Google Focused Research Award in natural language processing to fund exploration of spatial language understanding. The award is worth $1.5 million, … Read more
Raskar’s contributions to the field have been innovative, collaborative, and have served in supporting solutions to global problems. His speech to doctoral graduates mirrored his work, challenging graduates to consider how they too can tackle some of society’s biggest problems … Read more
The UNC Department of Computer Science celebrated its summer 2018, winter 2018, and spring 2019 graduates with an annual ceremony in Carmichael Arena. With 335 graduates, the 2019 event was the largest to date. The department recognized 16 doctor of … Read more
Computer science doctoral student Alan Kuntz was named to the first cohort of Thomas S. Kenan III Graduate Fellows. The Thomas S. Kenan III Graduate Fellowship will award Kuntz a $5,000 addition to his regular stipend for the 2018-2019 academic … Read more
Researchers from the UNC Department of Computer Science took first place at F1TENTH, an autonomous RC car race held during Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things (CPS-IoT) Week 2019 in Montreal, Canada. The F1TENTH competition requires students to design, build, and test … Read more
As a computer science student in the 1970s, Henry Fuchs tried to explain the benefits of affordable, personal computers to others at his school. Most were not convinced –– they saw no need for this technology in their day-to-day life. … Read more
Computer science doctoral student Darryl Hannan has been selected as a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship for 2019. This is a nationwide fellowship that supports outstanding graduate students in various STEM disciplines who are pursuing advanced research-based degrees … Read more
In 2018, the public was made aware of a flaw in many common computer processors that makes computer hardware vulnerable even when it is running secure software. Multiple attacks exploited this vulnerability, with ominous names like Spectre, Meltdown and Foreshadow. … Read more
