Chris Bronk, a fellow in technology, society and public policy at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, is quoted in a Channel 2 story on an insider hacking incident at the LifeGift Organ Donation Center. Appeared on KPRC-TV.

Computer Science's Moshe Vardi has been named this year's recipient of the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award. Vardi, the Karen Ostrum George Professor in Computational Engineering and professor of computer science, was chosen for his contributions to the foundations of relational databases by establishing deep connections between database theory, mathematical logic, complexity theory and artificial intelligence.