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Many of the vulnerabilities that have made e-mail security problem are spreading to voice-over-IP systems, raising the specter of a new generation of security threats. “There is no reason to believe the bad guys will not exploit this,” said Mustaque Ahamad, professor of computer science and director of Georgia Tech’s Information Security Center. Source: Government Computer News

Associate professor Ling Liu spoke at Northwestern University recently about the work she and her colleagues are doing on location-based computing. “Everybody has cell phones and wireless laptops and we are all turned on in terms of connectivity, and therefore people know where we are,” she said. Source: Medill Reports

A jury of industry and academic experts considered a record-breaking 518 submissions before choosing 90 papers for presentation at SIGGRAPH 2008. "These presentations give us a glimpse into a future with highly realistic computer games, stunning feature film special effects, intelligent cameras, and rich photo manipulation tools," said SIC Associate Professor Greg Turk, chair of the Technical Papers Jury. Source: Business Wire