Research
UMR students examine tools used in Wi-Fi security attacks
As the federal government considers whether airplane passengers should have inflight wireless Internet access, two University of Missouri-Rolla students are examining the vulnerabilities such networks pose.
Read More »UMR researchers ‘play tag’ in unique auto-id testbed
As Wal-Mart’s top 100 suppliers scurry to get radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags on their pallets in time to meet a January 2005 deadline, two researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla are joining forces to figure out how to use data from those tags in the most efficient way.
Read More »UMR network security interest group performs wireless security audit
Wireless networks are spreading into many homes in America; however, many of these networks are insecure. A group of students from the University of Missouri-Rolla recently conducted an audit of the area’s wireless networks to evaluate the community’s wireless usage and to educate those with insecure networks.
Read More »UMR students compete in artificial intelligence tournament
Several computer science and computer engineering students at the University of Missouri-Rolla competed in the UMR computer science department’s fall 2004 Artificial Intelligence Tournament on campus in December.
Read More »Connecting the (quantum) dots
Imagine if your office laser printer could print text the size of atoms, then embed that ink into a writing surface as light as air. That, in a sense, is what researchers at UMR have done with a new "laser writing" technique they have developed. But with this process, the "ink" is a semiconductor that […]
Read More »UMR researcher studying lead levels in St. Louis kids
Roughly 200,000 houses in St. Louis might as well have the cross-stitched phrase "Home, sweet (and toxic), home" hanging in a frame on their living room wall, according to a University of Missouri-Rolla researcher.
Read More »UMR to help General Motors hit ‘moving target’ of customer satisfaction
A new technique to relate a vehicle’s technical performance with customer satisfaction may save General Motors significant time and cost and may lead to better product decisions, according to University of Missouri-Rolla researchers.
Read More »UMR professor writes book on origin of ‘hot dog’
Dr. Gerald Cohen, a professor of foreign languages at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has just published a 300-page book Origin of the Term ‘Hot Dog’ together with word sleuths Barry Popik and the late David Shulman.
Read More »UMR lights up the skies with pyrotechnics course
In the nation’s only pyrotechnics course offered for college credit, University of Missouri-Rolla students are lighting up the skies with fireworks displays at football games and other public events throughout Missouri.
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