Tamara Denning's work on wireless security for implantable medical devices with UW faculty Yoshi Kohno and Alan Borning, Brian Gill (Seattle Pacific University), Bill Maisal (Havard) and UW iSchool Professor Batya Friedman is featured on CNN Tech. The story is part of CNN's extensive coverage of CHI, the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (www.chi2010.org/), held recently in Atlanta.

Tamara Denning is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the UW. Denning was interviewed at CHI and images from the prototypes are included in the story. Slides from Denning's talk are available from the CNN article as well.

The work described is the first publication from a new National Science Foundation grant on "Trustworthy Computing: Mobile Personal Privacy and Security -- A New Framework and Technology to Account for Human Values" and represents some of the first results from a collaboration between the Computer Security and Value Sensitive Design Research Labs. You can find the full article about this work here.

The work of another UW team, led by iSchool Associate Professor Wanda Pratt, that uses cancer patient's social networks to support their care was also featured recently by CNN.