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Computer science
A sickening downturn?
Published Jan 17, 2014
Web queries related to health concerns exceeded expectations during recession, researchers find
iSpy?
Is your laptop spying on you?
Published Dec 23, 2013
How MacBook webcams can be used to watch you without your permission / The Washington Post
On the hill
Is your data secure?
Published Nov 19, 2013
Computer science professor Avi Rubin testifies before House subcommittee about healthcare.gov security
Cyberslang
Defining the Deep Web
Published Oct 8, 2013
Encryption expert Matthew Green discusses some unfamiliar Internet terminology / The Baltimore Sun
App all night
Binge hacking
Published Sept 23, 2013 Photos
Johns Hopkins students pull all-nighters for 36-hour HopHacks hackathon
Does not compute
Drowning in data
Published July 15, 2013
Solving DNA puzzles is overwhelming computer systems, researchers warn
Field study
Scheduling solutions
Published July 8, 2013
JHU students, instructors design computer program for minor league baseball scheduling / Johns Hopkins Engineering magazine
Data mind
PRISM's 'huge implications'
Published June 10, 2013
Johns Hopkins encryption expert Matthew Green talks about data mining, NSA's PRISM surveillance program
Solar flare
On the sun
The affairs of solar flares
Published May 24, 2013
Turbulence to blame for magnetic field behavior in solar flares, researchers say
Using Twitter to track the flu
Published Jan 24, 2013 Video
Researchers find a better way to screen the tweets