Student work: Center for Information Technology Policy

By Mike Wood on Sept. 29, 2008, 11:59 a.m.

Mike Wood, class of 2008, profiles CITP, a cross-disciplinary academic group that is joining ORFE in a new home at Sherrerd Hall.

A major donation to the University by the late John J.F. Sherrerd, a 1952 alumnus and longtime Princeton supporter, has funded construction of a building for emerging fields of study at the intersection of engineering and the social sciences. The building, to be named Sherrerd Hall, will provide a home for the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) and the Center for Information Technology Policy, two rapidly growing areas aimed at improving decision-making in business and government related to risk and information technology.

Graduate students explore the ethics of artificial intelligence .

Nineteen Princeton graduate students are taking a deep dive into the challenges posed by artificial intelligence through the Graduate School's Professional Development Learning Cohort titled "Ethics of AI."

Student work: Camera stabilization senior thesis .

Zennen Clifton, class of 2008, profiles a camera stabilization platform developed by Engineering School classmates Taofik Kolade and Mike Wood for their senior thesis.

Attack on computer memory reveals vulnerability of widely used security systems .

A team of academic, industry and independent researchers has demonstrated a new class of computer attacks that compromise the contents of "secure" memory systems, particularly in laptops. The attacks overcome a broad set of security measures called "disk encryption," which are meant to secure information stored in a computer's permanent memory. The researchers cracked several widely used technologies, including Microsoft's BitLocker, Apple's FileVault and Linux's dm-crypt, and described the attacks in a paper and video published on the Web Feb. 21.

Tracking the trackers: Investigators reveal pervasive profiling of Web users .

Revealing and measuring the many commercial tools that invisibly track Web users is a key step toward improving transparency and privacy on the Internet, according to a set of privacy and technology experts who convened at Princeton University on Oct. 24.

Princeton collaboration brings new insights to the ethics of artificial intelligence .

"Princeton Dialogues on AI and Ethics" is an interdisciplinary research project that addresses issues of fairness, privacy and accountability regarding the use of artificial intelligence.