VENTUREBEAT: Imagine opening your mailbox and receiving a paper deed, proclaiming your legal ownership to every piece of digital, medical and locational data you have ever generated. Now imagine that paper deed has the blockchain technology behind it to allow you to protect or lease that data to any organization seeking its use. A new […]
Heidi Nebel, intellectual property attorney and chair of the Biotechnology & Chemical Practice Group at McKee, Voorhees & Sease PLC, will be speaking on a panel at the Association of Technology Managers Leadership Forum in San Diego, California, McKee, Voorhees & Sease announced this month. Nebel and her fellow panelists will speak on “The Current […]
By training, Dr. Zhu “Drew” Zhang is a computer scientist teaching at Iowa State University’s Ivy College of Business. By enthusiasm, practice and dedication, Zhang is a bit of a self-taught linguistics expert. It started when he moved from his hometown in northern China to school in the south, where the difference in dialects was so […]
BLOOMBERG: Months after the Cambridge Analytica scandal erupted Facebook’s daily business, LinkedIn Corp, the Microsoft-owned social networking site for professionals, says it will open its trove of user data to approved academic researchers. Chief data officer Igor Perisic made the announcement in a blog post on Monday, insisting LinkedIn will have controls in place to […]
Governor Kim Reynolds placed the ceremonial ‘first call’ at the Iowa State Fair on Monday, using a new statewide radio network that will be used by public safety agencies, hospitals, first responders and public schools, her office reports. The Iowa Statewide Interoperable Communications System (ISICS) is built on Motorola Solutions ASTRO 25 mission-critical radio technology, […]
A forensic evidence center led by Iowa State University faculty received top honors from the American Statistical Association, the university announced last week. Based at ISU, the Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE) received the Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry and Government (SPAIG) award in a presentation in Vancouver, British Columbia. CSAFE […]
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate has been reappointed to a national cybersecurity risk mitigation committee, Pate’s office announced today. Secretary Pate was a charter member of the Election Infrastructure Subsector Government Coordinating Council (EIS-GCC) during the council’s creation in October 2017. The council meets regularly with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the […]
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will host the China Intellectual Property (IP) Road Show – a one-day workshop to share insights on China and IP issues – in Iowa City on Aug. 28. The workshop will bring in experts from the U.S. government, IP attorneys and local businesses during the program, which runs from […]
BUZZFEED NEWS: Here’s a reminder to update your router at home. At least two people tied to the U.S. military accidentally leaked secret files to a hacker after failing to change either the default username, password, or both to their routers, researchers at Recorded Future found. The hacker told Recorded Future researchers that he found the […]
Forty-three percent of Des Moines tech hiring managers expect to grow their teams before the end of 2018, according to a new report released from staffing firm Robert Half Technology. The firm’s latest report surveyed hiring managers in 26 metropolitan areas in the U.S., and found respondents cited cybersecurity and cloud architecture as the two […]