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05/21/2012 Ars Technica
Computer scientists at U-M have identified a vulnerability in the network of AT&T and at least 47 other cellular carriers that allows attackers to surreptitiously hijack the Internet connections of smartphone users and inject malicious content into the traffic passing between them and trusted websites. |
05/17/2012 New Scientist
A mathematical discovery by Michigan Engineers could make cancer treatment safer and Wi-Fi networks more secure. Find out more > |
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05/15/2012 AnnArbor.com
Room B474 is no ordinary library -- it is U-Ms Computer and Video Game Archive, which boasts more than 3,000 games for more than 30 systems. Find out more > |
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05/14/2012 New York Times
When a few engineering students at U-M noticed that the 2012 SAE International Supermileage Challenge -- scheduled for June 7 and 8 -- would be held an hour away from campus, they asked the obvious question: Why are we not involved yet? Find out more > |
05/09/2012 Washington Post
U-M alumnus Kristine Svinicki (BSE NERS 88) is likely to serve a second term on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. |
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05/09/2012 Washington Post
A team of U-M professors have created a new model for funding academic research that potentially eliminates months of delay from when an idea is born till the money arrives to put it in play. Find out more > |
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05/09/2012 The Chronicle of Higher Education
U-M, in a bid to expand and broaden its base of scientific research, is offering faculty members a new microgrant plan that would directly finance the exploratory phase of an idea. Find out more > |
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05/09/2012 Nature
Competition drives innovation -- or so the thinking goes. Thomas Zurbuchen, associate dean for entrepreneurial programs at the College of Engineering, spearheads MCubed, a program that puts a twist on the old adage. Find out more > |
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05/08/2012 TODAYonline
Last week, Harvard University and MIT, partnered with U-M and many other elite universities, committed $60 million to offer free online courses. |
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05/07/2012 Knovel
Budding engineers from throughout the world are competing to develop an engine that can run on only a small amount of fuel. Students from U-M are participating in the SAE International Supermileage Challenge, which takes place annually in Marshall, Michigan. Find out more > |
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04/26/2012 Michigan Radio
U-M aims to find out with TechArb -- dozens of college students in the basement of a parking garage with some office furniture, a WiFi connection and free coffee. Find out more > |
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04/25/2012 Mashable
The organic light-emitting diode (OLED) market is growing, but polysilicon backplanes are still too expensive, says Stephen Forrest, a materials scientist and vice president for research at U-M. Find out more > |
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04/25/2012 Chronicle of Higher Education
YouTube holds a rich trove of videos that could be used in the classroom, but it is challenging to transform videos into a truly interactive part of a lesson. Find out more > |
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04/25/2012 NPR
Li-ion batteries cost too much, take too long to charge, present some safety challenges and are range-challenged. U-M spin-off Sakti3, led by Ann Marie Sastry (ME, BME, MSE), is developing battery technology to address these problems. Find out more > |
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04/24/2012 Scientific American
Today, diesel cars offer Americans another fuel-efficient vehicle option that could also ease the pain at the pump. Margaret Wooldridge, professor of mechanical engineering at U-M, is quoted. Find out more > |
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04/17/2012 USA Today
Doug Neal, executive director of U-Ms Center for Entrepreneurship, discusses opportunities for budding entrepreneurs after graduation. Find out more > |
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04/15/2012 Battle Creek Enquirer
The nation could start to see the walls of its offices, businesses and homes become smarter as a two-year U-M research-and-development project led by Jerome Lynch and Geoffrey Thun starts bearing fruit. Find out more > |
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04/15/2012 Michigan Daily
At the TechArb, student entrepreneurs showcased their companies and ideas to investors, fans and peers. Graduating seniors were applauded for receiving the Program of Entrepreneurship certificate on their diplomas. TechArb also announced its next round of members for the second half of 2012. Find out more > |
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04/12/2012 Tech Crunch
Fetchnotes, co-created by U-M students Chase Lee and Alex Schiff, is a promising, lightweight note-taking app for list makers and idea-havers which looks deceptively simple. Find out more > |
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04/12/2012 Huffington Post
With the success of films like The Social Network, students begin to believe that creating a job is better than finding one and student-run tech-start-ups seem to be exploding all around U-M. Find out more > |
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04/12/2012 Wired
U-M artificial intelligence expert Satinder Singh is cautiously optimistic about the prospects offered by data on the elusive benchmark of the Turing test. Find out more > |
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04/10/2012 Fox News
Self-driving cars are on the way, and they are approaching quickly. So says the former head of Research and Development at General Motors, Larry Burns, who expects to see autonomous vehicles in showrooms in less than 10 years, according to Automotive News. Find out more > |
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04/10/2012 Automotive News
Self-driving vehicles, once thought to be a thing far in the future, will be available by 2020, Larry Burns, former head of research and development at General Motors, said Monday. Find out more > |
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04/10/2012 Automotive News
The former R&D chief of GM and current U-M professor sees autonomous cars on roads by 2020. Watch the video. Find out more > |
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04/10/2012 Detroit News
About 400 participants from industry, academia and defense companies attended the daylong event at U-M North Campus Research Complex. Find out more > |
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04/10/2012 AnnArbor.com
Hundreds of engineers and scientists attended the annual U-M Robotics Day held at the North Campus Research Center, formerly the local headquarters of Pfizer. Find out more > |
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04/09/2012 CBS Detroit
Imagine a future in which cars safely drive themselves when you cannot, where robot security machines virtually eliminate insurgencies and terrorism... Those wonders and more were on the table Monday at the second annual Michigan Robotics Day, held at the sprawling North Campus Research Complex of U-M. Find out more > |
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04/09/2012 Detroit News
The second annual Michigan Robotics Day more than doubled its attendance Monday from the inaugural event a year ago as university students and representatives from government and industry talked about and showed off the promise of robotics. Find out more > |
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04/08/2012 Associated Press
What are you looking for in your next vehicle -- a manual, automatic or auto-pilot? Autonomous, self-driving vehicles will be among the topics explored Monday during Robotics Day 2012 at U-M. Find out more > |
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03/28/2012 Atlantic
U-M researchers Daniel Inman and Amin Karami have developed a device that powers a standard implantable pacemaker using heartbeat vibrations. Find out more > |
