CyLab Seminar - Stefan Savage September 16, 2024 Inside-out and backwards: a retrospective look at how measurement research really happens
CyLab Seminar - Sanghamitra Dutta September 9, 2024 Information-Theoretic Methods for Explainability in High-Stakes Applications
CSD Faculty win two “Test of Time” awards at USENIX 2024 Tuesday, August 20, 2024 Matt Fredrikson, associate professor in the Computer Science Department and Software and Societal Systems Department (S3D), and Bryan Parno, professor in the Computer Science Department and Kavčić-Moura professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, were honored with prestigious “Test of Time” awards during the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium. More
CMU Hacking Team Wins DEF CON Capture-the-Flag Title Monday, August 12, 2024 The winningest team in DEF CON’s Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition history, Carnegie Mellon University’s Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), won its third consecutive title, earning its eighth victory in the past 12 years. More
Searching for the Limits of Local Error Correction Tuesday, April 30, 2024 Information can be finicky, especially if it has to travel. Whether you're making a phone call over a wireless network, playing music from a CD, or saving a document to a hard drive, when you transform or transmit information from one location to another, it has to go through many channels. Peter Manohar, a Ph.D. student in CMU's Computer Science Department, worked with former assistant professor Pravesh Kothari to develop ways to improve error-correction algorithms by breaking apart the math behind them. More