Nov. 3, 2020, is going to test the machinery of our elections as they’ve never been tested before. We are conducting an experiment with our voting process for the most high-stakes election of our time—in the midst of a pandemic. This is a perfect storm. In the past, security experts have worried about weaknesses in […]
Smart homes of today—with lights, refrigerators, and Alexa all talking to each other—aren’t nearly as smart as they need to be to thwart virtual burglars from breaking in. To address the massive security threat to interconnected devices known as the Internet of Things, or IoT, Johns Hopkins University and six other institutions are embarking […]
Ashutosh Dutta, a senior scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, on his appointment as chair of Engineering for Professionals’ Electrical and Computer Engineering program, effective July 1. This program prepares students to develop systems for computation, communications, information transformation, power generation and transmission, and measurement and control. A highly accomplished electrical engineer […]