Computer Science and Engineering
Selected Press about CSE Faculty Research
Online Privacy of Minors
For Children, a Lie on Facebook Has Consequences, Study Finds (Ross)
New York Times, November 28, 2012
Kids Who Lie About Their Age on Facebook Endanger Their Friends (Ross)
Jezebel, November 29, 2012
NYU-Poly Researchers Find Weakness in Facebook’s Protections for Minors (Ross)
Technoverse Blog, December 20, 2012
Osmos Game
Interview: Andy Nealen of Osmos (Nealen)
Tek Syndicate, April 19, 2012
Trends in Facebook Privacy
Facebook Privacy in Demand: Users Don't Want You Prying (Ross)
Huffington Post, February 2012
Gabbay, Ross Discuss Trends Among Facebook Users (Ross)
Bloomberg, February 2012
More Facebook users are hiding their friends to protect themselves (Ross)
Infoworld, February 2012
Gesture-Based Login
Logging In With a Touch or a Phrase (Memon)
New York Times, December 2011
Gesture-Based Login Apps For iPad And iPhone Aim To Banish Passwords From Touchscreens (Isbister and Memon)
Forbes, November 2011
NYU's Memon on Biometric Password Technology (Memon)
Bloomberg, November 2011
Hacking into Email
F.B.I. Admits Hacker Group’s Eavesdropping (Ross)
New York Times, February 2012
Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) and Cyber Security Education
CSAW 2012 (Cappos)
NY1, November 2012
CSAW Attracts Top Cyber Security Hackers and Professionals (Cappos and Memon)
News 12 TV, December 2011
Young Hackers Gather for Cyber Security Awareness Week (Memon)
NY1, November 2011.
Wanted: ‘Cyber Ninjas’ (Memon)
New York Times, December 2009
Computer Hacking Contest (Memon)
ABC Education New, December 2009
Mobile Security and Privacy
Improving Mobility Infrastructure Security Standards (Cappos and Memon)
The Mobile Security Show- AT&T Tech, November 2011.
Your phone company is selling your personal data (Memon)
CNN Money, November 2011
Tracking Skype Users’ Locations and Downloads
Big privacy flaw in Skype (Ross)
NPR, October 2011
Skype can expose your location, researchers say (Ross)
New York Times, October 2011
Skype's huge, new security headaches (Ross)
Fast Company, October 2011
Malicious ISPs
Small ISPs use "malicious" DNS servers to watch Web searches, earn cash (Ross)
Ars Technia, August 2011
ISP-operated servers alter search results (Ross)
The Register, August 2011
Kinect Research
Notions of Motion: Hackers Harness Microsoft's Kinect for Business and Pleasure Applications (Isbister)
Scientific American, February 2011
How the X-box Kinect Tracks your Moves (Isbister)
NPR Science Friday, November 2010
How Wii and Kinect Hack into Your Emotions (Isbister)
Wired.com, November 2010
Microsoft Flip-flops on Kinect Computer ‘Hack’ (Isbister)
PC World (online), November 2010
The Problem with Microsoft’s New Way to Play Videogames (Isbister)
Kotaku.com, November 2010
Cloud Computing and Package Managers
How Cloud Computing & Web Services are Changing the Job Market (Cappos)
Mashable Business, February 2011
Attacks on Package Managers (Cappos)
LWN.net, April 2009
The Deep Web
Exploring a ‘Deep Web’ That Google Can’t Grasp (Freire)
New York Times, February 2009
The Dark side of the Internet (Friere)
The Guardian, November 2009
The Web That's Hidden From You (Freire)
NPR, December 2009
Photo and Network Forensics
New Way to Detect Digital Child Pornography? (Memon)
ABC News, April 2010
Sleuthing Software Can Reassemble Deleted Photos (Memon)
New York Times, February 2009
CIOs: Your networks have already been compromised (Memon)
Macworld, June 2009
Movement and HCI/Games
Grand Theft Auto invades the DS (Isbister)
Wall Street Journal, March 2009
How America got game (Isbister)
Parade Magazine, November 2008
VisTrails
A New Vision for Scientific Visualization (Freire and Silva)
National Science Foundation, March 2009
Wrapping a Globe
Sweet Inspiration (Iacono)
Science, Vol. 321. no. 5894, pp. 1282 – 1283, September 2008.
Peer-to-Peer Security and Video Streaming
Web users could slash cost of putting video online (Ross)
New Scientist, September 2007
File-sharing sites are being subverted for web attacks (Ross)
New Scientist, May 2007
Intelligent Agents for Games
A Short History of Story (Isbister)
BBC World, November 2011
Next generation storytelling (Isbister)
The Escapist Magazine, April 2007
Hey, man, let’s play videogame dress up (Isbister)
New York Times, July 1 2007
Steganography
Bogus analysis led to terror alert in Dec. 2003 (Memon)
NBC News, June 2005
Faculty Profiles and Interviews
Interview: Katherine Isbister (Isbister)
Kill Screen, December 2010
Conquering the Digital Data Overload (Freire)
Live Science, December 2009
Forty under 40 (Freire)
UtahBusiness.com