UB researchers found that Twitter can provide fairly sensitive data about not only current weather conditions, but the condition of roads and highways.
Blaine Pfeifer, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering, explains why we should look beyond E. coli’s bad reputation on Inside Higher Ed's Academic Minute.
Research by Neeti Pokhriyal, a PhD candidate in computer science, shows that tracking mobile phone calls and texts to pinpoint and map out poverty in developing countries could provide aid agencies and governments with better data to help those most in need.
Smithsonian Magazine reports on research by Karthik Dantu, assistant professor of computer science, to shrink technology used in lidar to give insect-sized drones the ability to navigate themselves toward a goal without being driven there by a human operator.
IEEE student members Katherine Czerniejewski, Julie Fetzer, and Dana Voll discussed Tinker, the STEM camp they launched at UB to encourage high school girls to pursue STEM studies, at an IEEE summit on women in engineering.
A team of UB cybersecurity students took first place in the first “Inter-Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition,” a competition that challenged students to model trying to break into a network or other system in order to understand the nature and depth of its vulnerabilities and what those openings put at risk.
