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Robins Air Force Base job fair hiring in computer science

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It is hosted by 402nd Software Engineering Group from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, January 26.

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — The Robins Air Force Base is looking for full-time employees in engineering and computer science.

The 402nd Software Engineering Group is calling on everyone with a bachelor’s degree in several areas to help them support the base

Sarah Martin says they’re looking for “computer scientists, computer engineers, electrical engineers, and software engineers, so if we’re looking for those qualified individuals,”

Robert Hill is a supervisor with the group and say the jobs are endless.

“We have a wide variety of jobs, a wide variety of projects, anything from ISR ground systems — that’s intelligence surveillance recognizance — to imbedded radar systems. We run the whole gamut,” says Hill

The group is responsible for creating the latest technology to assist America’s war fighters on their missions.

“It’s bigger than ourselves, it’s bigger than just the product we’re making. It’s the security of the nation and what we’re doing overseas that helps the war fighters,” Hill adds.

The work efforts are all about keeping up with the technological advancements from overseas.

“We try to stay ahead of our adversary, and all of our software engineers here, they contribute to that every single day,” he says.

Day-to-day work includes working with programs like Java and Python, and some work with artificial intelligence.

“We’re automating a lot of the stuff that used to be manual, taking a lot of the human error out of it as possible,” adds Hill.

They welcome all with bachelor’s degrees to come out.

“If you do have experience in the military, whatever branch…

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Dal computer science students hack their way to national competition – Dal News

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Four hours: That’s how long students had to penetrate the corporation’s network and expose its vulnerabilities.

While the network under attack during the CyberSci Regional Challenge was fictional, the skills on display by Singularity and Aurora — two four-person Dal teams — were very real. 

Singularity scooped up top spot in Atlantic Canada for its performance in the annual hacking competition held in New Brunswick last fall. In doing so, the students also landed a spot in national competition this coming summer by ranking fourth overall nationally against other teams competing in similar regional challenges. Aurora ranked fifth nationally.

For Singularity, it means competing again this July. Being ranked fourth nationally was fulfilling for the entire team but it meant a great deal for PhD student Rafael Copstein, Singularity’s team lead, who has recently secured a teaching position within the Faculty of Computer Science.

“Seeing us ranked fourth nationally was very rewarding for me,” he says. “Especially considering that I am now teaching a focused course on the subject, I feel qualified to guide our students into better results in these kinds of challenges.”

Unlocking potential

The competition is meant to challenge students and push them to their full potential all while creating networking and career opportunities.

Singularity, Aurora and the other teams competing were presented with a realistic corporate network that forced them to think about how an attacker would approach entry into the system. Students were faced with multiple problems of varying difficulties. Each competitive event tested the students for problem-solving, communication, creativity, and teamwork.

“We started by tackling some of the problems that were worth less points, hoping they would be easier to solve,” explains Rafael. “Some of the harder problems required more attention and more time, so we would put a single member to work on those while the others continued to analyze and discuss the other problems.”

Undergraduate student Logan MacDougall of Aurora echoes this: “Our team made sure to take full advantage of the tools we learned from our sessions. We would each tackle…

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Major events that shaped science, technology and communications sectors in 2022

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Earlier in the then-new year, 2022, the Nigerian Communications Commission confirmed that MTN Nigeria and Mafab Communications Limited had paid $273.6m each for the Fifth Generation spectrum licence.

The Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, Umar Danbatta, confirmed the payment in February as the deadline set for the two winners of the spectrum auction elapsed.

The “Provisional winners of the 3.5 Gigahertz spectrum licence, MTN Communications Nigeria Plc and Mafab Communications Limited, have made their full payment of $273.6m each for the 5G Spectrum license to the Nigerian Communications Commission”, Danbatta said via a press statement in February.

Also in the year, the Minister of Science Technology and Innovation (STI), Senator Adeleke Mamora, said despite less funding and other challenges, the ministry made enormous achievements since he took over as minister on July 14, 2022.

The minister said this in Abuja during an interactive session with reporters on the achievements of the ministry in the period under review.

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He also solicited for more funding for Research and Development (R&D) in the country to boost technological advancement.

“Research activities require a lot of funding and there has to be a way to make that funding possible. The African Union (AU) had set up a 2% of GDP for member countries for R&D and the truth is that until and unless we give priority to R&D, it will be difficult for us to get to where we want to be in terms of socio-economic development. We need R&D to move forward,” he said.

Mamora commended President Muhammadu Buhari for committing 0.5% of Nigeria’s GDP to Research and Development which, he said, is an improvement from previous years.

The minister also said as a result of the funding constraints, the ministry had prioritised dropping of wastages and avoiding duplication.

Also, the executive vice chairman/chief executive, National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Prof. Mohammed Sani Haruna, disclosed during the year that the agency’s target is to contribute 50 megawatts of…

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Cybersecurity expert: ‘Technological giants are becoming political actors’ | Science & Tech

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A physicist and mathematician, Eviatar Matania splits his teaching schedule between Oxford and Tel Aviv University. A former head of the Israeli National Cyber Directorate under Benjamin Netanyahu, he has published widely on issues of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.

Matania, 56, sat down for an interview with EL PAÍS while visiting Madrid for a conference.

Question. Is privacy dead?

Answer. In China, the social credit system already works by which citizens receive a score based on their [digital] behavior: if they consume pornography, points are deducted. If they buy things online for children, they receive points, because they’re supposedly being responsible. In addition, [people] live with cameras in the streets. If you don’t behave well there, it will be very difficult for you to leave the country, get an apartment or get permits for so many things.

I see the threats that hang over privacy from cyberspace… giants like Google or governments know more about you than ever before. But I also see people trying to defend their privacy. If we look at what the European Union or academic foundations are doing, we see that a battle over privacy is being waged. Of course, the [younger generations] perceive privacy very differently. They display everything online… they enjoy doing it! Because of this, the key will not only be what we do to defend our privacy, but also how the new generations perceive privacy and defend human rights.

Q. How can we make sure that we govern technology, without letting it govern us?

A. Education is key. Finland has understood the threat to democracy that Russia exercises from the web… the country has begun to educate students about how to be good internet users. Our parents taught us to be careful on the street, to cross safely, things like that… but they wouldn’t know what to teach us about cyberspace! The Finns are doing that now,

building awareness about privacy, democracy and human rights, while distinguishing the most objective news from fake news.

Only after education can we talk about regulation. I am very much not in favor of strict regulation, but I am in favor of codes of good practice and of recommendations that will unleash…

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