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TAYLOR UNIVERSITY Weekly Edition Creation Baseball Care Week continues continues hot streak tonight and Page 8 tomorrow Page 2 You are the voice. We are the Echo. Since 1913 1 Volume 104, Issue 22 Friday/Thursday, April 21 - April 27, 2017 TheEchoNews.com HEADLINES half of which came with classif ca- Opportunities in tions and half of which did not. The a land of corn Computer science major contestants could then sort this mal- ware using whatever method they Armila Francis shares her journey to teaching Page 2 wanted. Mays and Drabinsky turned the the malware’s binary code into Junior to present senior research pixels to create images. Then they ran image classif cation algorithms, Entrepreneurs often used for facial recognition in photographs. After they completed their re- search, Mays and Drabinsky split up to f nish their written work and presentations, said Mays. Another requirement of the research is that students must submit their work to Enactus cultivates spirit of entrepre- neurship at local junior high Page 3 a conference. Brandle recommend- ed MAICS, where Mays originally Bringing submitted. Daniel Stanley, anoth- health home er professor of computer science, Lalrin Pari’s dream to improve asked Mays to submit his work in health care in Burma Page 3 poster form to CERIUS. Mays’ work was accepted for presentation at Startup both events. Storytellers Mays also presented his malware research at Lockheed Martin, a cy- bersecurity technology company in Virginia, during a Taylor University trip this January. “Cybersecurity is becoming a re- ally big deal,” Brandle said. “More and more graduate schools in par- An entrepreneurship conference ticular, but also undergraduates, are for everyone Page 5 starting to have programs in cyber- security. We actually had a (com- Inspiration on puter science/cybersecurity) major Instagram approved last December, which will Students share their favorite be available for this coming cata- creatives on Instagram Page 6 log year.” Photograph by Hannah Bolds According to Brandle, Taylor’s The Echo: a critique Senior Mitchell Mays’ research applies facial recognition methods to malware classif cation Computer Science and Engineer- The Echo does what it should, but ing Department received $100,000 Page 7 it could be better Mitchell Mays will website. The annual Modern Artif - defend their work. Mays teamed up for work related to computer virus- share malware cial Intelligence and Cognitive Sci- with a friend, Noah Drabinsky (‘17), es in the 2017 calendar year. Mays’ The beginning ence Conference (MAICS), hosted by to combine their unique skills for a work in combining malware classif - of an era classif cation program Indiana University-Purdue Univer- malware classif cation project. cation with machine learning is only Athletic department announces sity Fort Wayne, will take place on “One of the best things about one part of a growing worldwide in- new head coach Page 8 Emily Rachelle Russell April 28 and 29. Mays is sharing his computer science is the creativi- terest in artif cial intelligence. Contributor work on malware classif cation at ty of it,” Mays said. “You have no Mays said he recently read an ar- CONTENTS these events. starting grounds. You might even ticle by Elon Musk, founder and CEO News ............................Pgs 1–2 Computer science senior Mitchell Mays’ presentations are based on just have a blank sheet . you can of SpaceX and Tesla, Inc., about the Local & Indiana............Pg 3 Mays will present his research on research he completed for his degree put your creative touch on anything, threat artif cial intelligence poses to Features ............................Pg 3 malware classif cation at two cyber- requirements. According to Stefan and . once you’ve learned things humanity. “I understand why people security events in Indiana this April. Brandle, professor of computer sci- well enough, you’re able to create al- have that sentiment,” Mays said. “I’m Life & Times ...........Pgs 4–5 Purdue University hosted their an- ence and engineering and Mays’ re- most anything.” not afraid of that, because I think A&E .....................................Pg 6 nual Center for Education and Re- search advisor, computer science According to Brandle, the stu- that there is something unique to Opinions ...........................Pg 7 search in Information Assurance students seeking a Bachelor’s of dents’ project was inspired by an the human person . I think a lot Sports .................................Pg 8 and Security (CERIAS) symposium Science must complete two semes- online contest run by Kaggle, a data of the problems humans f nd sim- on April 18 and 19 at the West La- ters of research, write a thesis pa- science website. Kaggle gave contes- ple, computers f nd very, veryhard.” fayette campus, according to its per, make a formal presentation and tants’ programs samples of malware, [email protected] WEEKEND WEATHER Today 56° 42° (Re)searching Saturday 54° for summer 39° proteins. One of the ways the team A look ahead to will cause mutations is by cross-mat- Sunday summer research ing f ies that have “loss-of-function mutations”—modif cations that in- 66° projects on campus hibit gene expression. 42° By altering the proteins over the Hope Bolinger course of eight weeks, they will ob- Copy Editor serve the mutant specimens under FOLLOW US powerful microscopes to compare For most students research projects the altered f ies to normal, unmu- end during f nals week, but during tated counterparts. The team’s ulti- Photograph provided by Kathy Bruner @TheEcho_Taylor Senior Olivia McCash works on Professor Kathy Bruner’s documentary on teens the last week of May, some students mate goal is to use the genetic data struggling with academics due to health issues, addictions and poverty. and faculty will start summer-long re- between the normal and mutated search projects at Taylor. f ies to study how a healthy organ- Kathy Bruner, assistant professor Jessica Vanderploeg, assistant pro- ism develops from a single cell into of media communication, has two Facebook.com/ fessor of biology, will stare at fruit f ies an adult. goals for this summer: create a doc- TaylorUniversityEcho this summer. Vanderploeg began the The experimental process may hit a umentary and complete her Master research for the project as an under- few snags. “Because we are complet- of Fine Arts in Filmmaking at Ver- graduate, but the actual project took ing experiments that no one else has mont College of Fine Arts. In order place at Taylor last year. According done before, I fully expect we’ll run to achieve the second goal, she has @Echo_TaylorU Vanderploeg, this multi-year analy- into obstacles,” Vanderploeg said. to f nish the f rst. sis will study fruit f ies in order to un- But despite possible setbacks, team Eighteen months ago, she f lmed at derstand how human bodies develop member Han Chang looks forward to what she referred to as a “last-chance and function. the project. “Honestly it’s something high school” in Marion. There, she “That means we are not studying, I’ve never done before,” Chang said, f lmed the stories of struggling teens TheEchoNews.com for example, how to limit the number “and I really want to get more famil- who had wrestled to attain diplomas of fruit f ies in your house,” Vander- iar with the research side of science.” because of health issues, addictions ploeg said. “Studying human devel- Students working on the project and poverty. Bruner shot in a style opment is incredibly complex and will be funded through the Faculty called cinéma vérité, a genre which dif cult. However, we can use ani- Mentored Undergraduate Summer covers a long period of time without mal models to help us understand (FMUS) scholarship program. Vander- a plot structure in mind. Due to this SUBSCRIBE TO human biology.” ploeg hopes after one or two summers unpredictable format of storytelling, THE ECHO! According to Vanderploeg, both the project will qualify for grants she ran into complications. humans and f ies contain cells with from the National Science Founda- “Some of the students we followed Print and electronic Photograph provided by Jessica Vanderploeg similar proteins. Vanderploeg, along tion (NSF). early on changed their minds and subscriptions A group of Biology Directed Research available at with juniors Won Chang, Han Chang Across campus, a group of students asked us not to continue,” Bruner students work as “f ypushers,” viewing and Alex Hord, will manipulate the in Rupp plans to pursue a research fruit f ies through a dissecting microscope TheEchoNews.com genes in the f ies that control certain project that started last year. Researching continues on page 2 and use paintbrushes to sort them. “She conveys (her) passion and strong conviction to other people by demonstration, and she does it in a subtle and humble way.” Planting roots in Upland 2 ThNeEchoNews.comEWS April 21, 2017 FRIDAY THIS WEEK IN NEWS Photograph provided by media.defense.gov Photograph provided by wikimedia.org Photograph provided by Wolna encyklopedia Photograph provided by gov.uk Photograph provided by f ickr.com Pence visits Demilitarized Zone Venezuelan protests erupt ISIS claims responsibility for Paris shooting May announces snap election Erdogan’s presidential power increased raw video into one coherent story. interviews. And a handful will help a grant, according to Bruner. Others an exercise in making art. It has Researching “And yet, even with that enormous complete the project over the sum- will use the project to earn credit for been a deep dive into the world of continued from page 1 amount of content we will inevita- mer in time for her October deadline an independent study or log partici- poverty, addiction, abuse and more.” said. “Others have family members bly be missing some footage that we for her Master’s degree.