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News

Nov 15

CyLab researchers propose new rules for Internet fairness

Just weeks after a team of Carnegie Mellon researchers showed that Google’s new congestion control algorithm (CCA) was giving an unfair advantage to its own traffic over services using legacy algorithms, the same team has proposed new guidelines on how future algorithms should be developed.

Nov 13

Project Amelia provides a visit to the not-so-distant future

Project Amelia had its final production earlier this month in Pittsburgh’s South Side, where it had been running since early September. A whole cast of CyLab researchers were involved in the production.

Nov 11

CMU women prominent among Rising Stars 2019

Women from Carnegie Mellon University outnumbered those from every other institution at Rising Stars 2019, an annual workshop for early-career women in computer science and electrical and computer engineering. Two women from CyLab also won two of the four prizes in the workshop’s Research Pitch Competition.

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    CyLab’s researchers have published more than 400 security and privacy research studies in the past five years

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