From the nytimes.com:
The researchers examined public databases of 7.1 million public keys that are used to secure e-mail messages, online banking transactions and other secure data exchanges. The researchers employed the Euclidean algorithm, an efficient way to find the greatest common divisor of two integers, to examine those public key numbers. They were able to produce evidence that a small percentage of those numbers were not truly random, making it possible to determine the underlying numbers, or secret keys, used to generate the public key.
Maybe this is why they are called pseudo-random number generators?!
President Obama says that he is putting Colleges and Universities on notice. If they don't stop tuition from increasing, they will watch their public funding decrease. Funny. I think most pubic colleges and Universities are increasing their tuition BECAUSE public funding is being cut by state lawmakers. Maybe I'm missing some Federal system of higher education?!
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It looks like the America Invents Act has been passed by both the House and Senate, and it is on its way to the President's desk. And it looks like the President is going to sign the bill. What is this going to mean?
Truman State Univeristy has the unique honor to be one of a handful of colleges or Universities to have a PRISM grant from the National Science Foundation. We earned the honor of this grant on the basis of our ability to marshal faculty support for the idea that STEM education in the twenty-first century is different from the STEM education of the twentieth century. At Truman, we've had great success in building a curriculum supporting the New Biology, and our NSF PRISM grant is helping us extend this to other STEM disciplines. Specifically, it's helping us reach freshmen in the following way.
Today, it looks like the winningest coach in college basketball (women's or men's) is talking openly about her diagnosis of early onset dimentia. And UTK is keeping her on staff. And at the vanguard of their programs. Good for them!!!!!
