Expert for NATO
A professor of computer science and engineering at Michigan State University discussed the impact of biometric technology on personal privacy at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Identity and Security in Lausanne, Switzerland, in July.
IEEE world honors
Michigan State University Professor Kalyanmoy Deb was presented the 2018 IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2018) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was honored July 11 for his "pioneering contribution, development, and leadership in evolutionary multi-criterion optimization."
New possibilities for biometrics
Every time you use your fingerprint to unlock your smartphone or access a banking app, you're using biometrics—a way to authenticate identity using a unique biological characteristic.
New facial recognition
New facial recognition software and app invented at Michigan State University can help protect endangered primates - more than 60 percent of which face extinction.
The Conversation
An essay written by two Spartan Engineers in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering is trending in national publications. Computer science PhD student Pranshu Bajpai and Richard Enbody, associate professor of computer science and engineering co-wrote an essay for The Conversation on cryptojacking or the secret use of your computing device to mine cryptocurrency.
Arun Ross - MasterPrint
No two people are believed to have identical fingerprints, but researchers from New York University and Michigan State University have found that partial similarities between prints are common enough that the fingerprint-based security systems used in mobile phones and other devices can be more vulnerable than previously thought.
