Intel Student Ambassador Program for AI: What Is It?

Intel Student Ambassador Program for AI: What Is It?

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Intel Student Ambassador Program for AI: What Is It?

In November of 2016 we announced the Intel® Software Student Developer Program, created to work collaboratively with students at innovative schools and universities doing great work in the Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence space. As part of this program we also announced the Intel Student Ambassador Program for AI, an exciting new program for University students to engage with Intel around their work in Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence.  

What is the Student Ambassador program? 

The Student Ambassador Program is a developer affinity program, designed to assist student experts in telling their story and share their expertise with other student data scientists and developers.  Intel is working with universities across the globe to introduce this program.  Those students invited into the program as Student Ambassadors are provided technical support, resources, and marketing to advance their own work through Intel software, tools, and hardware.  This program is primarily targeted toward graduate students, however, undergrads and PhD students can apply should they have the combined education, skill and time to fulfill program requirements (note: this program does not provide a college internship with Intel, nor does it provide placement for employment with Intel). 

What are the benefits of the Student Ambassador program? 

The Student Ambassador Program offers many benefits for the select students who are invited into the program.  These benefits include:

• Formal association with Intel Corporation via branded swag and the Student Ambassador title 
• Free software, tools and libraries from Intel
• Direct access to their own instance on the Intel Xeon Phi powered AI cluster, to power the development and training of deep learning models
• Access to early disclosure information (under NDA) during monthly meetings with Intel
• Direct access to Intel engineers and resources to support their work and adoption and integration of Intel Architecture
• Sponsored travel to support speakerships and/or training by or for the Student Ambassador
• Sponsored funds to assist in hosting, training and speaking sessions at their campus to promote their work 

What are the expectations for Student Ambassadors? 

Student Ambassadors will continue in their role as long as the Student is able to and desires to continue as a Student Ambassador or upon their graduation, whichever comes first.  During their time as a Student Ambassador each is expected to complete the following:

• Online posting of 2 technical articles to Intel's Developer website (software.intel.com)
• Creation of an online profile and posting of at least 1 project to Intel's Developer Mesh website (devmesh.intel.com)
• Host speaker of 1 or more Ambassador Labs, providing training about their work to a total of 125 students or more 

I'm interested. How do I get involved? 

For students or faculty interested in the Student Ambassador Program, there are multiple ways to engage with Intel and get involved:

• Universities can invite Intel to come on campus for a half-day workshop to discuss the program and provide initial training on deep learning and artificial intelligence technologies supporting Intel architecture.  Visit this site and or contact Niven Singh for more information on setting up a workshop.  
• For students directly interested in the Student Ambassador program we invite students to tell us a bit more about their work by posting information about their studies and or research to the Student Group on the Intel Developer Mesh website. Posting to this site helps Intel get a glimpse into the student work and helps demonstrates the students willingness and aptitude for sharing their experience with the community. After posting a project to Developer Mesh, students can complete and submit an online candidate form. 

How will Intel support the other students, not eligible or able to be a Student Ambassador? 

Intel is also able to support and sponsor student clubs at universities. With this program Intel is able to provide sponsorship funds to select university clubs.  Sponsorship funds help support a club's cost for meetings and gatherings, in exchange for the club discussing and sharing information about Intel support of Artificial Intelligence.  Select clubs will be provided with an AI training kit, including content and documentation to share and discuss during their meetings and gatherings. Select university clubs will be prioritized for guest speakerships by Intel or associated partners as resources are available. Those interested in being evaluated as a an Intel Student Program University Club can submit information for candidacy here.  

Intel is excited about the opportunity to work and engage directly with students who are shaping and advancing new work and use cases for Artificial Intelligence via campus workshops, Student Ambassadors, and University Clubs.  Our aim is to provide students and developers the resources and opportunity to have a voice and influence in driving AI forward.  Learn more on the Intel Student Ambassador site, check out the AI projects on Mesh, or contact Niven Singh directly for more information..

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How to Hack Wi-Fi: Choosing a Wireless Adapter for Hacking

How to Hack Wi-Fi: Choosing a Wireless Adapter for Hacking

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Determine the chipset of a wireless card

Each year we make a list of the top Kali Linux compatible USB adapters an usually there are big changes.

 

 

This can always change of course at any time and we will update this post with any new information but 2016 has the same problems 2015 had.

 

The first problem is the 802.11ac protocol and a compatible USB adapter that will work with Kali.

 

802.11ac 5GHz USB dongles that will work with Kali are slow to come and hopefully will happen soon.

Introduction

IMPORTANT:

• Please read and understand the following prior to using this page: Tutorial: Is My Wireless Card Compatible?
• Microsoft Windows is only supported by Airpcap for now. See this section for more details.
• See this FAQ entry if your question is “What is the best wireless card to buy?”.

This section deals with a three related areas:

• Determine the chipset of a wireless card
• Determine the driver for a wireless card

Determine the chipset

There are two manufacturers involved with wireless cards. The first is the brand of the card itself. Examples of card manufacturers are Netgear, Ubiquiti , Linksys and D-Link. There are many, many manufacturers beyond the examples give here.

The second manufacturer is who makes the wireless chipset within the card. This is the most important company to know. Unfortunately, it is sometimes the hardest to determine. This is because card manufacturers generally don't want to reveal what they use inside their card. However, for our purposes, it is critical to know the wireless chipset manufacturer. Knowing the wireless chipset manufacturer allows you to determine which operating systems are supported, software drivers you need and what limitations are associated with them. The next section describes the operating systems supported and limitations by chipset.

You first need to determine what wireless chipset your card uses. This can be done by one or more of these techniques:

• Search the internet for “<your card model> chipset” or “<your card model> linux”. Quite often you can find references to what chipset your card uses and/or other people's experiences.
• Search the Forum
• You may also have a look at windows driver file names, it's often the name of the chipset or the driver to use.
• Check the card manufacturers page. Sometimes they say what chipset they use.
• Have a look at lsusb -vv output for descriptions, USB id and kernel modules used. If the card is internal, do the same with lspci -vv.
• Locate the FCC ID of your device. Enter the information into FCC Website and then browse the internal photos of the device.

Here are some other resources to assist you in determine what chipset you have:

• Linux-wireless has a list of drivers in Linux
• WikiDevi in general is a great resource for wireless devices/drivers/etc but if you are looking by device ID, check out this page.
• Wireless Adapter Chipset Directory nearly the best resource for this kind of information
• Atheros chipsets based wireless 802.11a/b/g devices only Atheros-based cards
• Overview and details about wireless adapters

Chipset	Supported by airodump for Windows	Supported by airodump for Linux	Supported by aireplay for Linux
Atheros	CardBus: YES PCI: NO (see CommView)	PCI, PCI-E: YES Cardbus/PCMCIA/Expresscard:YES USB: YES(b/g/n)	New mac80211 Atheros drivers have native injection and monitoring support
Atmel	UNTESTED	802.11b YES 802.11g UNTESTED	UNTESTED
Broadcom bcm43xx	Old models only (BRCM driver)	YES	MOSTLY (Forum thread) No fragmentation attack support. Recommend to use b43, see below.
Broadcom b43	NO	Yes (1.0-beta2 and up, check here)	Yes, check here
Centrino b	NO	PARTIAL (ipw2100 driver doesn't discard corrupted packets)	NO
Centrino b/g	NO	YES	NO (firmware drops most packets) ipw2200inject No fragmentation attack support.
Centrino a/b/g	NO	YES	YES (use ipwraw or iwl3945)
Centrino a/g/n (4965)	NO	YES	MOSTLY, see iwlagn. Fakeauth is currently broken.
Centrino a/g/n (5xxx)	NO	YES	YES
Cisco Aironet	YES?	Yes, but very problematic	NO (firmware issue)
Hermes I	YES	Only with airodump not airodump-ng and only with a specific firmware	NO (firmware corrupts the MAC header)
NdisWrapper	N/A	Never	Never
Prism2/3	NO	old kernels only ⇐2.6.20	YES (PCI and CardBus only: driver patching required) NOTE: Prism2/3 does not support shared key authentication and the fragmentation attack. There is a critical bug and this chipset is not currently recommended. It may even affect other kernel versions. Also you must use old kernel ⇐2.6.20 USB: Only old kernel ⇐2.6.20 with linux-wlan-ng
PrismGT FullMAC	YES	YES	YES (driver patching recommended)
PrismGT SoftMAC	YES	YES (requires p54 >=2.6.30)	YES (requires p54 >=2.6.30)
Ralink	NO	YES	YES, see rt2x00, rt2500, rt2570, rt61 and rt73. Also see Ralink chipset comments later on this pager for important concerns.
RTL8180	YES	YES	UNSTABLE (driver patching required)
RTL8185	NO	YES	YES (mac80211 driver untested)
RTL8187B/RTL8197	NO	YES	YES (2.6.27+, use the mac80211 driver with this patch)
RTL8187L	UNTESTED	YES (driver patching required to view power levels)	YES (driver patching recommended for injection and required to view power levels)
TI (ACX100/ACX111)	NO	YES	YES (driver patching required) No fragmentation attack support. Please re-test fragmentation with the mac80211 driver + mac80211 frag patch!
ZyDAS 1201	NO	YES	Partially but NOT RECOMMENDED (See patch for details)
ZyDAS 1211(B) softmac	NO	YES	Partially but NOT RECOMMENDED (See patch for details). Atheros has acquired Zydas and renamed this chipset to AR5007UG.
ZyDAS 1211(B) mac80211	NO	YES (patching recommended)	YES, but no fragmentation attack support yet.
Other mac80211 (ADMtek…)	NO	UNTESTED, but likely YES	UNTESTED (YES for drivers with AP mode support)
Other legacy (Marvel…)	NO	UNKNOWN	NO

Determine the driver

Once you have determined the chipset, check the driver section for which software driver you need. Software drivers connect the operating system to the hardware. The drivers are different for each operating system. There are also notes regarding limitations.

If you are deciding on which card to purchase, check the “Which is the best card to buy?” section on this page. There are many considerations that should go into your purchase decision:

• Hardware compatibility with your existing equipment.
• Price and availability of the card.
• Availability of software drivers for your particular operating system and intended use of the software.
• How active is development for the software drivers you need.
• How much peer support and documentation is available for the card and software drivers.

It is not an easy decision to make. By considering these factors, it will help you make a more informed decision on what to purchase.

Chipset	Windows driver (monitor mode)	Linux Drivers	Note
Atheros	v4.2 or v3.0.1.12 or AR5000 (see this pagefor more information)	Madwifi, ath5k ath9k, ath9k_htc and ar9170/carl9170	Atheros and Zydas USB 802.11n cards. The rest of atheros chipsets excluding the ones mentioned and MIMO series as well as fullMAC (these are rare, only found in embedded devices) should be supported.
Atheros		ath6kl	Third generation Atheros driver for mobile devices (AR6003) Currently does not support injection
Atmel		Atmel AT76c503a	AT76C503/505A based USB WLAN adapters
Atmel		Atmel AT76 USB	AT76C503/505A based USB WLAN adapters, mac80211 driver
Broadcom	Broadcom peek driver	bcm43xx	Windows: Old models only Linux: always use latest -rc kernel
Broadcom with b43 driver		b43	b43 - An excellent and fully supported driver
Broadcom 802.11n		brcm80211	FOSS wireless driver for BCM4313, BCM43224, BCM43225 chipsets Currently does not support monitor/injection
Centrino b		ipw2100	802.11b only
Centrino b/g		ipw2200	See IPW2200 and RF-Mon. See more recent update info here See this thread for how to do injection.
Centrino a/b/g		ipw2915 ipw3945 iwl3945	ipw2915 uses ipw2200 driver (See this thread for alpha injection support.) For ipw3945 you can use the ipwraw-ng driver, iwl3945 recommended on >=2.6.26, or see Live Distros for WifiWay which includes patches for injection.
Centrino a/g/n		iwlwifi	4965AGN under development.
Cisco/Aironet	Cisco PCX500/PCX504 peek driver	airo-linux	4500/4800/340/350 series, Firmware 4.25.30 recommended (see thisfor more info)
Hermes I	Agere peek driver	Orinoco Orinoco Monitor Mode Patch	802.11b only and only with specific firmware (7.52)
Ndiswrapper	N/A	ndiswrapper	Using windows drivers in linux. It will never work with aircrack-ng
cx3110x (Nokia 770/800)		cx3110x	Supports monitor mode (flaky) but not injection
prism2/2.5	LinkFerret or aerosol	HostAP wlan-ng	Use STA firmware >=1.5.6 (see Prism2 flashing)802.11b only, and only on old kernels ⇐2.6.20. See this forum entry regarding windows support.
prismGT	PrismGT by 500brabus	prism54	only FullMAC cards works with aircrack on Linux. Deprecated driver, refer to p54.
prismGT (alternative)		p54	mac80211 based, requires >=2.6.30 for better softMAC support. Also supports PrismGT FullMAC and PrismGT USB based chipsets.
Ralink		rt2x00 or RaLink RT2570USB Enhanced Driver or RaLink RT73 USB Enhanced Driver	The entire rt2x00 family: rt2400pci, rt2500pci, rt2500usb, rt2800pci and rt2800usb can inject and monitor. Including PCI and USB chips on b/g/n.
Realtek 8180	Realtek peek driver	rtl8180-sa2400	802.11b only
Realtek 8187L		r8187 rtl8187
Realtek 8187B		rtl8187 (2.6.27+) or r8187b (beta)
TI		ACX100/ACX111/ACX100USB
ZyDAS 1201		zd1201	802.11b only
ZyDAS 1211		zd1211rw plus patch	Excellent USB chip with reliable aircrack-ng and general support

5 best Chromebooks 2016: top Chromebooks reviewed

5 best Chromebooks 2016: top Chromebooks reviewed

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5 best Chromebooks 2016: top Chromebooks reviewed

As we all know Chrome is another Google software platform, much like Android, only different. It's a desktop browser, a mobile app, and the operating system for Google's series of laptops and mini desktops.

1. Dell Chromebook 11

You'll find a  rugged design, 180-degree reinforced hinge, sealed keyboard and trackpad. CPU: Intel Celeron N2840 | Graphics: Intel HD Graphics | RAM: 2GB – 4GB |Screen: 11.6-inch HD, 1366 x 768 touchscreen |Storage: 16GB SSD On the Chromebook 11. In addition to using the Chromebook for school work, bass-happy students will appreciate the loud stereo speakers for music and videos.

2. HP Chromebook 14

A Chromebook that is balanced  well Screen: 14-inch, HD (1,366 x 768) BrightView | Storage: 16GB eMMC Crisp, vivid screen Excellent keyboard, trackpad CPU: Intel Celeron N2840 – N2940 | Graphics: Intel HD Graphics | RAM: 2GB – 4GB The HPs' 14-incher is a bit more compact and better looking to boot, if coffee shop appeal is crucial. Average battery life

3. Google Chromebook Pixel

Hardware and performance aside,  A vibrant screen – plus the tactile keyboard and trackpad – helps round out the Pixel as one pretty. CPU: Intel Core i5 – i7, 3:2 screen hurts multitasking| Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 5500 | RAM: 8GB – 16GB |Screen: 12.85-inch 2,560 x 1,700 IPS touch | Storage: 32GB – 64GB SSD Intel Core processor, Long battery life That said. At this price, you could buy several Chromebooks or a far more powerful Windows laptop. 

4. Lenovo N20p Chromebook

A versatile Chromebook experience that is Poor viewing angles, Super fast Gorgeous design, Bad speakers.

CPU: Intel Celeron N2830 – N2930 | Graphics: Intel HD Graphics | RAM: 2GB |Screen: 11.6-inch HD (1,366 x 768) multi-touch | Storage: 16GB SSD

This is one of the "sexier" Chromebooks around, showcasing the best feature of the N20p's 300-degree hinge, bending the N20p's display backward all the way into tent mode (or "stand" mode), which makes itself well in watching films or showing presentations. Using a Chromebook as a tablet is the range of ports certainly makes up for the oversight.

5. Toshiba Chromebook 2

The Toshiba Chromebook 2 seem like a steep investment wrapped up in that slim, silvery package Featuring a brilliantly vivid 1080p screen, a nifty backlit keyboard and the option of an i3 processor configuration, there's little to complain about here.

Full HD on a Chromebook Up to Core i3 power,

Gorgeous 1080p screen. CPU: 5th generation Intel Celeron – Core i3 | Graphics: Intel HD Graphics – HD Graphics 5500 | RAM: 4GB | Screen: 13.3-inch, FHD (1,920 x 1,080) | Storage:16GB eMMC

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