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Selena Ponio | Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Sophomore Ralph Moran has a mission: to draw people away from typical cookie-cutter gifts. For him, music has the power to be the ultimate gift. Moran’s company, “Streetlight Creations,” is a custom music platform that connects customers with artists for the purposes of creating personal songs “to address the desire for meaningful gifts among the
Andrew Cameron | Friday, November 11, 2016
In an effort to improve the iris-scanning technology used in forensics and law enforcement, a team of Notre Dame researchers recently released software used to determine similarity between iris scans using a new method. The software, which was released in October on Notre Dame’s Office of Technology Transfer, was developed by computer science and engineering
Alex Cao | Tuesday, September 30, 2014
The government of Somaliland asked Notre Dame computer science professor Kevin Bowyer with graduate students Amanda Sgroi and Estefan Ortiz to use their iris recognition biometric research to improve the legitimacy of their elections. Somaliland is a self-declared independent state directly north of Somalia recognized by the international community and U.S. as an autonomous region of
Alex Cao | Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Professor Nitesh Chawla, professor of computer science and engineering and director of both the Interdisciplinary Center of Network of Science and Applications and the Data, Inference, Analytic and Learning Lab, was awarded the 2015 Early Career award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). “I am very excited and
Peter Durbin | Monday, September 1, 2014
A Notre Dame computer science and engineering professor has been awarded one of the most prestigious awards in his field. Dr. Peter Kogge was presented the Charles Babbage Award at the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers’ 2014 International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium in Phoenix in May, in recognition of his contributions to the
Alex Cao | Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Computer science professor Kevin Bowyer received the 2014 Institute of Electrical Engineering and Electronics (IEEE) Computer Society’s Technical Achievement Award for his research in the field of biometrics. Bowyer said he and his group of student researchers work in facial recognition technology, focusing on “using infrared imaging and 3-D imaging as well as using regular