Sandia engineer turns error detection into ‘secret language’ for enhanced data security
While researching ways to decrease errors in electronic messages, computer scientist Celestino Corral invented a method that could make messages, like email, more difficult for unauthorized “listeners” to decode.
Sandia brings best cybersecurity minds to bear in national policy talks
The Labs hosted a series of virtual events called Meeting of the Minds to discuss changing threats and ways to improve national cybersecurity.
Small IT business wins Sandia’s largest single subcontract
Small IT business wins Sandia’s largest single subcontract
Safeguarding biological data
A partnership between Sandia and the Boston firm BioBright LLC to improve the security of synthetic biology equipment has become more relevant after the U.S. and others issued warnings that hackers were using the COVID-19 pandemic to increase their activities.
Material found in house paint may spur technology revolution
The development of a new method to make non-volatile computer memory may have unlocked a problem that has been holding back machine learning and has the potential to revolutionize technologies like voice recognition, image processing and autonomous driving.
Herrera appointed to national quantum computing advisory committee
Sandia Fellow Gil Herrera has been appointed to the newly established U.S. National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee, charged with advising the nation’s highest offices on matters concerning quantum information science.
50 million artificial neurons to facilitate machine-learning research
Fifty million artificial neurons were delivered from Intel Corp. to Sandia in September. The neurons will be assembled to advance a relatively new kind of computing, neuromorphic, based on the principles of the human brain.
Machine-learning technique could improve fusion energy outputs
Machine-learning techniques, best known for teaching self-driving cars to stop at red lights, may soon help researchers around the world improve their control over the most complicated reaction known to science: nuclear fusion.
Cyber programs engage future workforce
The growing demand for cybersecurity professionals around the globe puts a premium on those in the industry and makes cybersecurity a critical skills area at Sandia. GET SCET and Tracer FIRE are two Sandia programs that have been put in place to help grow the number of talented individuals available to enter the cybersecurity pipeline.
Sandia joins national center for quantum computing research
Sandia will serve as the leading partner in one of five national research centers for quantum information science established by DOE in August. The Quantum Systems Accelerator is a multi-disciplinary team comprising dozens of researchers from 15 labs and universities.