Credit: Matthew Ansley via Unsplash When datasets containing personal information are shared for research or used by companies, researchers try to disguise data—removing the final one or two digits of a zip code, for example—while still preserving its utility for insight. But while deidentification is often intended to satisfy legal...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence models that interpret medical images hold the promise to enhance clinicians' ability to make accurate and timely diagnoses, while also lessening workload by allowing busy physicians to focus on critical cases and delegate rote tasks to AI. But AI models that lack transparency about...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed a blueprint for creating algorithms that more effectively incorporate ethical guidelines into artificial intelligence (AI) decision-making programs. The project was focused specifically on technologies in which humans interact with AI programs, such as virtual assistants or "carebots" used in...

Credit: University of Sheffield Swarms of advanced unmanned aircraft are set to carry out aerial surveys of Antarctica—gathering crucial data on changes to the region's environment and wildlife—as part of new research with engineers from the University of Sheffield. The exciting new project, involving researchers from the University's Department of...

People from different parts of the world say hello to each other on WOC. Credit: Yan et al. In the past few years, a growing number of computer scientists have been exploring the idea of "metaverse," an internet-based space where people would be able to virtually perform various everyday activities....

Associate Professor Jedidiah Crandall hopes his research will help inform users that the networking fundamentals of virtual private networks, or VPNs, do not provide the security properties people expect. He wants to illuminate a path forward to building a better VPN. Credit: Shutterstock In countries where internet censorship and surveillance...

(a) A screenshot of the interface of the experiment environment which was used for all conditions. An ‘instruction panel’ is located on the left side, slightly tilted towards the user. The ‘interaction panel’ is located in the center, slightly tilted towards the user. Its design is based on recommendations from...

Credit: Brendan Murphy, Author provided Fake photography is nothing new. In the 1910s, British author Arthur Conan Doyle was famously deceived by two school-aged sisters who had produced photographs of elegant fairies cavorting in their garden. The first of the five ‘Cottingley Fairies’ photographs, taken by Elsie Wright in 1917....

CodeToon uses 1-to-1 mapping to make connections clear across code, story, and comic. For example, as indicated by the dotted line, line 1 (code) maps to line 1 (story) and to row 1 (comic). Credit: Suh, Zhao & Law. Three researchers at University of Waterloo in Canada have recently developed...

Credit: Lee & Yam. In recent decades, cyberattacks have become increasingly varied, introducing various strategies to lure users onto malicious websites or prompt them to share sensitive data. As a result, computer scientists are continuously trying to develop more advanced tools to detect and neutralize these attacks. Typosquatting, one of...