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Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have uncovered new hard-to-detect methods that criminals may use to trigger mobile device malware that could eventually lead to targeted attacks launched by a large number of infected mobile devices in the same geographical area. Such attacks could be triggered by music, lighting or vibration.

Computer Science students will use UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center (ASC) as a canvas for their game, Pacman Revisited, in “Lux Somnia: Light Dreams,” event which will be held May 2-3, 2013 7:30 p.m.. The entire Southern facade of the Alys Stephens Center will be wrapped and transformed into a giant projection screen. The event's centerpiece will be a series of artists' dreams and the interactive game projected onto the canvas, all designed specifically to animate the building, celebrating the union of art, technology, music, and light.

Looking for a 12th century chess piece? A custom Rubik’s cube? An exact copy of a seashell, the inside of an eyeball, a relief map of an Egyptian burial ground, or an obscure protein? UAB computer scientist Kenneth Sloan, Ph.D., has them all in stock.

UAB Magazine writes about Dr. Saxena and his SPIES research lab: Computer security researchers put themselves into the minds of cybercriminals to figure out what they might do next. Nitesh Saxena, Ph.D., takes a different approach. His mission is to get inside the minds of users—quite literally, in his latest project—to figure out how to protect them from new attacks.

UAB ACM Chapter is holding a seminar on Source Control using Subversion and PostgreSQL basics.

The CIS department has started a LinkedIn group for our Alumni allowing our graduates an easy way of staying connected with their classmates and to build a diverse network of contacts in the computer science field. Join us now.

Rajan Kharel, who recently joined the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Lab as a MS/PHD student in Fall 2012, wins the first lace in the paper competition in the Engineering and Computer Science Section at the 90th annual meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science.

Dr. Saxena's team of researchers have developed an app that defends against mobile malware. They call it Tap-Wave-Rub or TWR. This new app was recently featured on Fox 6 News.

John Osborne, PhD student from CoRAL lab, has been awarded a CAS entrepreneurship award for his project entitled "Enhancing Semantic Interoperability through MAchine Learning of Post-Coordinated Concepts in SNOMED CT".

Tech studies are cool again as students see degrees leading to jobs in many fields; Ph.D. enrollment reaches new high, survey finds. Read more.....

Dr. Nitesh Saxena and UAB SPIES (Security and Privacy In Emerging computing and networking Systems) researchers have developed simple but effective techniques to prevent sophisticated malware from secretly attacking smartphones.

Fast-food restaurants, hotels, libraries, you name it, they've got wi-fi these days, free for the taking. But how safe is public wi-fi? How does UAB Computer Science Professor Dr. Nitesh Saxena answer that question?

Save the Date: March 26, 2013; Where: UAB Alumi House; Event details to follow.......

UAB researcher spends $15 to educate 20,000 disadvantaged students in Bangladesh and India online; wins a Google RISE Award for his efforts.

Ragib Hasan, Ph.D., director of the UAB SECuRE and Trustworthy Computing Lab (SECRETLab) and an assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, received the $583,000 grant to build a system for verifying the location history and chronological track of mobile devices such as cell phones.


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