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Hackers race to win millions in contest to thwart cyberattacks with AI

Hackers race to win millions in contest to thwart cyberattacks with AI

As part of efforts to mount defenses against cyberattacks that would threaten critical national infrastructure and security, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is sponsoring a two-year hackathon contest offering a large monetary prize for writing programs that can scan millions of lines of open-source code to help identify security flaws and fix them. Teams from Arizona State University, the University of California at Santa Barbara and Purdue University recently gathered to begin taking on the challenge. One of the advisors is Yan Shoshitaishvili, an associate professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Fulton Schools, whose expertise includes cybersecurity research and vulnerability detection techniques.

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