07/24/2018 -
This month, a group of UTCS researchers won a best paper award at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2018 for their paper, "TxFS: Leveraging File-System Crash Consistency to Provide ACID Transactions."
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10/16/2009 -
With so much information being shared online these days, it’s critical that much of it remains private and anonymous. We trust, for example, that social networking sites such as Facebook remove personally identifiable information when they share our preferences and desires with advertisers.
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09/29/2009 -
From: The University of Texas at Austin News| Digital Security Program
AUSTIN, Texas — University of Texas at Austin scientists have shown that they can break "Vanish," a program that promised to self-destruct computer data, such as emails and photographs, and thereby protect a person's privacy.
There is no way to permanently delete any material posted or sent through the Internet, and this leaves people's information vulnerable to breaches in privacy.
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09/07/2004 -
Professor Emmett Witchel has received the George M. Sprowls Outstanding Thesis Award for his thesis titled "Mondriaan Memory Protection." This award is given to up to two people every year from the EECS Department at MIT.
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