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csd's Stefan Savage Wins a Macarthur Award
"Modern cars are basically distributed computers. Increasingly, planes are the same way. So are boats. Stoplights are that way," says UCSD's Stefan Savage. "All these systems work better and more efficiently now than they did before, but they also have a
Stefan Savage and his students have hacked into cars and disabled brakes, used telescopes to make illicit copies of keys from 200 feet away, and joined criminal groups selling counterfeit drugs over the Internet.
Lucky for you, this professor of computer science and engineering at UC San Diego is on your side.
Savage, 48, works on a wide range of projects designed to protect computer systems from attackers, whether it's a crook trying to steal credit card information off a laptop or a foreign country gathering intelligence by hacking into a database maintained by Yahoo or Anthem Blue Cross.
What sets him apart from others who face off against cybercriminals is the holistic approach he uses to keep our inboxes free from spam and our private information from being stolen. That's why he just won a five-year, $625,000 "genius" grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
From Los Angeles Times
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