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Nine RIT faculty members attended the 2024 Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Principal Investigators’ Meeting Sept. 4-5, in Pittsburgh.

News Radio WHAM 1180 chats with Jonathan Weissman, principal lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, about the National Public Data breach that exposed 2.9 billion records, including Social Security numbers. (Interview starts at the 50-second mark.)

The university’s two newest Ph.D. programs in cognitive science and physics offer diverse research opportunities for students and help them gain the skills and abilities needed to analyze data and grasp complex concepts. The new programs bring RIT’s total doctoral programs to 15.

The two-week trip was the culmination of the Japanese Game Industry course, where students learned about the world’s third largest video game market. RIT students immersed themselves in the culture, participated in a game jam with Japanese students, and visited a major Japanese game studio.

RIT experts in artificial intelligence, screenwriting, and digital design made their mark on Hollywood this week at one of the world’s foremost conferences on entertainment, media, and technology.

Infosecurity Europe featured CTIBench, an evaluation tool created by a team of RIT cybersecurity researchers. The benchmark suite is designed to assess the performance of AI and large language models in cyber threat intelligence applications.

WHAM-TV talk with Jonathan Weissman, principal lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, about the worldwide Crowdstrike outage.

Exploding Kittens, the animated series based on the game, premiered on Netflix July 12. The nine-episode first season brings characters from the game to life and introduces new ones. It also coincides with updates to the Netflix Exploding Kittens mobile game and new show-adapted merchandise.

RIT cybersecurity researchers are preparing connected vehicle networks for the next stage of cybersecurity—the post-quantum era. The team, in RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute, is highlighting how current cryptographic methods are vulnerable to attacks enabled by emerging quantum computers.

RIT Cybersecurity Clinic has assisted over 20 non-profit and community organizations in its first year and plans to expand its community impact and student opportunities in the coming year. Non-profits, small businesses, municipal entities and other under-resourced organizations in the greater Rochester area are encouraged to apply for the clinic's pro-bono services.

Interdisciplinary teams of students applied their ingenuity and technological sensibilities in collaboration with local professional musicians to create interactive experiences.

A team of students won the Grand Prize at GameFest 2024 for developing Mushroom Kid’s Big Grass Sword. The platformer game follows Mica, a little mushroom on a journey to claim a powerful weapon and rescue its village after the residents are captured by a gigantic bird.