The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering recently announced their list of Scientist and Engineer inductees for 2017. Congratulations to Dr. Alexander C. Russell, Professor and Director of the graduate program, for this honorable lifetime achievement. Dr. Russell’s research includes cryptography, quantum computing, electronic voting technology,   survivable distributed information and computational systems. As a co-director of […]

We would like to thank Dr. Robert A. Ravenscroft Jr. and Ms. Anne F. DelSanto-Ravenscroft for their generous contribution to the Computer Science Program. This gift helps support students to become leaders, problem solvers, and innovators who will shape our future.  Our students are especially grateful for your support as the cost of an excellent […]

We would like to thank Drs. Frances and John Morse for your generous contribution to the Computer Science Program. This gift helps support students to become leaders, problem solvers, and innovators who will shape our future.  Our students are especially grateful for your support as the cost of an excellent engineering education continues to rise each […]

A special thank you to Karen Maryanski for your generous gift to the Fred J. Maryanski Memorial Fund for Computer Science. Your financial contribution provides scholarship support to undergraduate and graduate UConn students majoring in computer science, computer science & engineering and computer engineering. Your financial contribution have given our students the freedom to explore a […]

A special thank you to David and Ashley Maryanski for your generous gift to the Fred J. Maryanski Memorial Fund for Computer Science. Your financial contribution provides scholarship support to undergraduate and graduate UConn students majoring in computer science, computer science & engineering and computer engineering. Your financial contribution have given our students the freedom to […]

Professor Bansal is leading a research project, recently funded by the NSF, to develop new computational methods for studying Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) in microbes. HGT is known to be one of the most important drivers of microbial evolution and an improved understanding of this evolutionary process is critical to understanding how microbes evolve, adapt, […]

We would like to thank Mr. Nicholas Wagner once again for his generous contribution to The Cigna Graduate Assistant Fund for Computer Sciences to establish graduate assistantships. Graduate assistants divide their full-time efforts between study and assistantship responsibilities. The support shown by Nicholas enables our students to become leaders, problem solvers, and innovators who will […]

Title: Program Obfuscation:  A Brave New World Abstract: Program obfuscation is the art of writing programs in a way that renders the code unintelligible even to parties that can run it. Long the exclusive domain of heuristics and “programming tricks,” program obfuscation has recently taken the cryptographic community by storm. Indeed, the concept was shown […]

Daniel Conroy, Synchrony Financial CISO, discusses the shortage of cybersecurity professionals, proposes some steps for mitigating the problem, and mentions the UConn/Synchrony partnership of Synchrony Financial Center of Excellence in Cybersecurity in this article : How to Unlock Cybersecurity Talent