Education

Schools should prep for ransomware with response and comms plans, experts say

The pandemic increased the footprint of what schools need to protect.

  • By Shourjya Mookerjee

Campus testbeds pilot smart city solutions to climate threats

Portland State University’s Digital City Testbed Center is exploring ways to raise the public’s awareness about environmental threats before deploying applications at scale.

  • By Shourjya Mookerjee

The infrastructure bill won’t be enough to close the digital divide

Academics and researchers in rural and underserved communities must have the same access to high-speed internet infrastructure as their peers in metropolitan areas.

  • By Sampak Garg

Cybercriminals use pandemic to attack schools and colleges

Thanks to unsafe devices, distracted security staff and COVID-inspired phishing schemes, cyberattacks have hit schools and colleges harder than any other industry during the pandemic.

  • By Nir Kshetri

White House announces $1B in funding for AI, quantum research centers

The National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy will be investing over more than $1 billion over five years to build 12 new artificial intelligence and quantum information science research institutes, the White House announced.

  • By GCN Staff

Pentagon moves to revamp online education systems

As the pandemic increases the need for online learning, the Defense Department's chief management officer pushes change.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Ransomware criminals are targeting US universities

Cybercriminals can launch massive phishing attacks targeting users of campus networks and gain access to highly desirable and sensitive information related to research, patents and other types of intellectual property data.

  • By Nir Kshetri

DOD's plan for 'virtual critical care wards' for COVID-19 patients

The Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium wants health professionals to be able to deliver high-quality critical care to bedsides of COVID-19 patients in field hospitals, small rural health care facilities and even gymnasiums.

  • By Susan Miller

Filling the cyber talent pipeline

The Energy Department’s Savannah River Site is partnering with a local university to offer specializations in network security, cryptography, ethical hacking, cyber defense, digital forensics and cyber ethics.

  • By GCN Staff

Framework would make AI decisions less murky

A new framework would allow users to understand the rationale behind artificial intelligence decisions.

  • By Matt Shipman

5G network now live at Mcity test facility

The University of Michigan's Mcity campus now features a 5G network for smart city autonomous vehicle safety testing.

  • By GCN Staff

Testbed for 5G-powered drones coming to North Carolina

The Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless will accelerate the integration of drones into the national airspace and enable new features, such as flying base stations for rapidly deployable wireless connectivity.

  • By Susan Miller

Sub-T challenge draws underground drone explorers

Drones of every stripe crawled and flew through mine shafts in DARPA’s latest subterranean technology competition.

  • By Mark Rockwell

Fastest academic supercomputer powers up

Frontera -- the fifth-most powerful supercomputer in the world and the fastest at any U.S. university -- made its official debut Sept. 3 at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

  • By Susan Miller
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Building a cloud for planetary defense

The Planetary Defense Mitigation Gateway is a cloud-based platform to house data and tools for scientists working to protect the Earth from hazardous objects from space.

  • By Susan Miller

Army enlists AI in search for better batteries

Researchers are looking for ways to make the batteries that power warfighters' equipment safer, lighter and less expensive.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Researchers launch secure cloud user environment

The University of Texas at San Antonio has launched Galahad, a secure ecosystem to protect users running desktop applications in an AWS cloud.

  • By Susan Miller

Measuring agility in cyber defense

To better train cyber defenders to protect systems and networks, researchers have developed a cyber agility framework that measures the speed and effectiveness of responses to attacks.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Sensor could speed earthquake response

Researchers have found a way to provide reliable information about how much damage a building has sustained in an earthquake, making it easier and faster for responders to assess a building's safety and reoccupation prospects.

  • By Susan Miller

Indiana University plans cyber clinic targeting state and local government

The IU Cybersecurity Clinic will help organizations better manage cyberattacks, protect intellectual property and improve privacy.

  • By GCN Staff

US hangs on to lead in supercomputing, barely

The Summit and Sierra supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Lab held onto the first and second place slots in the latest list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world.

  • By Susan Miller