Jeremy: Welcome to the Sound of Science on WNIJ. I’m Jeremy from NIU STEM Outreach, and I’m here with my colleague Sam. Sam: We have a question from a long-time STEM supporter, Gary. Gary: Hi, I'm Gary and I live in Sycamore. I would like to know: what happens to all the rubber that wears off tires? Where does it go? I don't see it laying along the side of the road. Sam: Our car tires are more than just rubber; they have a lot of petrochemicals and heavy metal additives to affect the friction

Sam: Welcome to The Sound of Science on WNIJ. I’m Sam from NIU STEM Outreach. And with me is Jeremy. Today we’re going to venture into the Uncanny Valley.

Sam: Welcome to The Sound of Science on WNIJ. I’m Sam from NIU STEM Outreach. And with me is Jeremy. Today we’re going to venture into the Uncanny Valley. Jeremy: The Uncanny Valley is the curve of a graph that describes people’s appreciation of a creation that mimics humanity. At a certain point, the mimicry isn’t quite good enough and it causes a negative gut reaction. Something that is clearly a cutesy cartoon is fine, so is a movie about a clone, but a rubbery-faced robot with cold dead eyes

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Sam: Welcome to the Sound of Science on WNIJ, I’m Sam from NIU STEM Outreach Fred: And I’m Fred Williams from NIU Division of Information Technology. I’m not an expert in Artificial Intelligence, and I don’t think anyone can truly predict the speed and breadth of AI development. However, I have some ideas as to where AI is going. Sam: Let’s start with how AI is already guiding our lives. AI is really good at finding patterns and making predictions given enough data. This is called machine

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Sam: Welcome to the Sound of Science. I’m Sam from NIU STEM Outreach Fred: And I’m Fred Williams from NIU Division of Information Technology. In the last few episodes we’ve discussed some of the ways cyber criminals infiltrate networks to gain information and how you can try to keep that from happening. But there are ways criminals attack you directly, and you’re probably constantly targeted. Sam: The most common are forms of phishing. That’s fishing with a p h. These are messages designed to

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Sam: Welcome to The Sound of Science. I’m Sam from STEM Outreach. Jessica: And I’m Jessica from NIU Division of Information Technology. We’ve already talked about databases storing your information as hashes to make it more secure. Today we’ll talk about how an attacker can get ahold of those hashes in the first place. Sam: There are all kinds of attacks a malicious person can conduct to break into secure systems. We only have time to get into a few, and we’re going to keep it to the basics

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