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Cheating with Smartwatches

In this Freedom to Tinker blog, CS undergrad Alex Migicovsky discusses a smartphone app for collaborative cheating and how increasingly inconspicuous technology will pose future testing and broader security challenges.

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Crunching Big Data for Social Good

Prof HV Jagadish has won a Grand Challenge Explorations grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project that merges incompatible geographic data to allow for new analyses of societal issues.

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MHacks III to be Held in Detroit

The student organizers of MHacks have announced that MHacks III will take place in downtown Detroit on MLK weekend, Jan. 17-19, 2014. Over 1200 students from schools across the country are expected to participate.

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Hayes Honored with TTTC Medal

John P. Hayes, Claude E. Shannon Professor of Engineering Science, has been honored with the IEEE TTTC Lifetime Contribution Medal for his outstanding contributions to test technology.

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Ackerman Named ACM Fellow

Mark Ackerman, George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to human computer interaction, with an emphasis on finding and sharing expertise."