ASU welcomes 20 MasterCard Foundation Scholars from Africa (ASU News)
The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program at ASU recently welcomed the second cohort of scholars from Sub-Saharan Africa for the fall 2013 semester, including Mariama Salifu, biomedical engineering major from Ghana.
Picture-based password schemes have their weaknesses (Threat.com)
Researchers Ziming Zhao, Gail-Joon Ahn, Jeong-Jin Seo from Arizona State University and Hongxin Hu from Delaware State University are looking at how human cognition plays into picture-based authentication, especially around picture selection and what areas on an image a person is likely to use for their authentication scheme. Ahn is a professor, Zhao a doctoral student and Seo a master’s student in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering.
Arizona State University’s Biosensor Lab to develop health monitoring device for workers in hazardous environments (AZoSensors.com)
Jeffrey La Belle’s research is driving development of a new mobile monitor to protect people working in potentially hazardous environments. La Belle is an assistant professor in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering.