Mihai Pop and Stephen Mount are guiding UMD freshmen in sequencing the genome of the diamondback terrapin, integrating wet lab and DNA sequencing skills into the First Year Innovation and Research Experience program.
They developed IntegriDB, a cryptographic protocol that ensures the accuracy and integrity of SQL queries in cloud-hosted databases, with findings to be presented at the ACM CCS conference.
The film highlights the interaction between legal and information technology professionals, with both sides aiming to solve the problem of how to find the large volumes of information that must be exchanged in complex litigation.
The paper explores how mobile internet users in South Africa optimize data usage due to limited or costly data, with strategies like disconnecting from the internet to save data.
He says Bitcoin emerged unexpectedly and gained widespread adoption before any serious analysis was conducted, leading to its use by thousands despite a lack of understanding about its security properties.