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Making It Easier to Program and Protect the Web
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Making It Easier to Program and Protect the Web

MIT Professor Adam Chlipala builds tools to help programmers more quickly generate optimized, secure code.

The Talent Shortage in Quantum Computing
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The Talent Shortage in Quantum Computing

William Oliver says a lack of available quantum scientists and engineers may be an inhibitor of the technology's growth.

Luis von Ahn Awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize
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Luis von Ahn Awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize

Luis von Ahn, consulting professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and CEO of Duolingo, is the winner of the 2018 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize...

Security For Multirobot Systems
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Security For Multirobot Systems

Researchers have developed a technique for preventing malicious hackers from commandeering robot teams' communication networks.

How Data Can Help Change the World
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How Data Can Help Change the World

Speakers at last week's IDSS conference explored how data can be brought to bear on global challenges.

How to Stay Anonymous Online
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How to Stay Anonymous Online

Riffle is a bandwidth and computation efficient communication system that guarantees anonymity among all honest clients as long as at least one server in the network...

We Know Where You Live
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We Know Where You Live

Researchers have shown that the location stamps on just a handful of Twitter posts can disclose the addresses of the poster's home and workplace to a relatively...

Patching ­p Web Applications
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Patching ­p Web Applications

By exploiting some peculiarities of the popular Web programming framework Ruby on Rails, MIT researchers have developed a system that can quickly comb through tens...

Secure, ­ser-Controlled Data
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Secure, ­ser-Controlled Data

Cryptographic system would allow users to decide which applications access which aspects of their data.

The Beginning of the End For Encryption Schemes?
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The Beginning of the End For Encryption Schemes?

Researchers from MIT and the University of Innsbruck in Austria report that they have designed and built a quantum computer from five atoms in an ion trap.

Hack-Proof Rfid Chips
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Hack-Proof Rfid Chips

Researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments have developed a new type of radio frequency identification (RFID) chip that they say is virtually impossible to hack.

­ntraceable Communication – Guaranteed
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­ntraceable Communication – Guaranteed

A team of MIT researchers have developed an untraceable text-messaging system that provides a strong mathematical guarantee of user privacy.

A Basis For All Cryptography
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A Basis For All Cryptography

A tool that would provide a secure foundation for any cryptographic system may be close at hand.

Shoring Up Tor
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Shoring Up Tor

Researchers mount successful attacks against Tor, the popular anonymity network, and show how to prevent them.

'Fingerprinting' Chips to Fight Counterfeiting
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'Fingerprinting' Chips to Fight Counterfeiting

Verayo, an MIT spinout, uses random variations in silicon chips as authentication identifiers for consumer products.

Cloud Security Reaches Silicon
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Cloud Security Reaches Silicon

MIT researchers have implemented in silicon a system for defending against memory-access attacks.

Privacy Challenges
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Privacy Challenges

Just four pieces of information are enough to identify 90 percent of the people in a data set recording three months of credit-card transactions by 1.1 million...

Who's Using Your Data?
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Who's Using Your Data?

Researchers at MIT are developing a protocol they call "HTTP with Accountability" (HTTPA) which will automatically monitor the transmission of private data and...

Tiny Anti-Counterfeiting Particles Could Help Verify Goods
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Tiny Anti-Counterfeiting Particles Could Help Verify Goods

Researcbers hope smartphone-readable microparticles could crack down on counterfeit currency, electronics, pharmaceuticals, luxury goods, and other products.

Detecting Program-Tampering in the Cloud
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Detecting Program-Tampering in the Cloud

A new version of 'zero-knowledge proofs' allows cloud customers to verify the proper execution of their software with a single packet of data.
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