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Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis

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Spafford ’s more than three decades as professor of computer sciences at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind., Indeed, the field didn’t really exist when he graduated from the State University of New York at Brockport with a bachelor’s degree in math and computer science in 1979. During Eugene H.

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NHTSA: US traffic fatalities increased 3.3% in 2012

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Ten times as many riders died not wearing a helmet in states without a universal helmet law than in states with such laws. 15 or higher—nearly double the legal limit. The data showed the large majority of pedestrian deaths occurred in urban areas, at non-intersections, at night and many involved alcohol. increase over 2011).

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AI Screens Out Robocallers

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One machine-learning-based system was created by a group including Mustaque Ahamad , a computer scientist at Georgia Tech, and Sharbani Pandit, then a graduate student. If it’s up to apps to cull nuisance calls, then it’s fortunate that they’re getting smarter. Some are now employing AI. Where do you stop these calls?” asks Ahamad.

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