SEAS in the News

  • Researchers discover a new way to identify 3D printed guns
    10/22/18
    Global coverage continued on a UB-developed method to track items, including guns, made on 3D printers. A story in Futurity quoted Wenyao Xu, an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, who said: “3D printing has many wonderful uses, but it's also a counterfeiter's dream. Even more concerning, it has the potential to make firearms more readily available to people who are not allowed to possess them.” 
  • Robots use environmental clues to build structures
    10/22/18
    An article in Mechanical Engineering magazine, a publication of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), reports on research by Nils Napp, assistant professor of computer science, to develop autonomous robots that can overcome uneven terrain and other obstacles.
  • Study exposes security vulnerabilities in terahertz data links
    10/19/18
    An article on the website of the National Science Foundation reports on research by Josep Jornet, assistant professor of electrical engineering, that shows it is possible to steal data undetected from terahertz wireless links, even though those links involve beam transmissions from the transmitter to the receiver.
  • Researchers find way to track 'untraceable' 3D-printed guns
    10/19/18
    An article on CNET in the U.S., UK and Australia reports on research by Wenyao Xu, associate professor of computer science and engineering, that has discovered the first way to track 3D-printed objects, including guns, using the unique “fingerprints” that 3D printers leave on the objects they produce.
  • Coppin State professor may have a lost Melville manuscript
    10/19/18
    An Associated Press article about a Maryland professor who may have found a lost Herman Melville manuscript that includes hints of what later would become his masterpiece “Moby Dick” reports the handwriting was analyzed by UB’s CEDAR forensics lab and that Sargur Srihari, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and founding director of CEDAR, presented a comprehensive forensic analysis in a paper.
  • Where’d you hear that? A rumor mill churns amid Hurricane Michael’s rubble
    10/19/18
    An article in The New York Times about how false rumors circulate during hurricanes and other natural disasters includes comments from Jun Zhuang, associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.