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- Improving VPN Performance Over Multiple Access Links
- To improve the performance of VPN connections the paper investigates how the bandwidth of multiple access links can be aggregated with inverse multiplexing to create a single, higher capacity logical communication link. But achieving the maximum possible aggregated TCP throughput becomes extremely challenging if the underlying links either use different...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, George Mason University, VPNs, Network Security, Telecommunications, Networking, Security
- White papers 2008-06-13
- A Semantic Search Engine for Spatial Web Portals
- Spatial Web Portals, such as NASA's Earth Science Gateway (ESG, esg.gsfc.nasa.gov) and ESIP's Earth Information Exchange (EIE, eie.esipfed.org) have improved the sharing, exchanging, and interoperating of Earth science information. Large amount of geospatial metadata, data, and web services have been collected for SWPs to serve different user communities. However, most...
- Tags: Earth, Search Engine, George Mason University, Web Portal, Portals, Search, Web Technology, Internet
- White papers 2008-05-30
- How to detect network vulnerabilities?
- Computer scientists at George Mason University GMU have developed a new software to identify complex cyber network attacks. This software is named CAULDRON (short for 'Combinatorial Analysis Utilizing Logical Dependencies Residing on Networks'). The developers claim that CAULDRON 'can reduce the impact of cyber attacks by identifying the possible vulnerability...
- Tags: Software, Network, Vulnerability, George Mason University, CAULDRON, Networking, Security, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- "Out-of-the-Box" Monitoring of VM-Based High-Interaction Honeypots
- Honeypot has been an invaluable tool for the detection and analysis of network-based attacks by either human intruders or automated malware in the wild. The insights obtained by deploying honeypots, especially high-interaction ones, largely rely on the monitoring capability on the honeypots. In practice, based on the location of sensors,...
- Tags: Network, Monitoring, Sensor, George Mason University, Honeypot
- White papers 2007-12-01
- E-Commerce Security Technologies: An Evaluation Using the Metasploit Framework (MSF)
- This research will evaluate the effectiveness of two publicly available network security products using penetration tests conducted with the Metasploit Framework. Metasploit is an open source toolkit and development platform used for software exploitation. The growing sophistication of both Metasploit and other network security products begs the simple question, Are...
- Tags: Network, E-commerce Security, George Mason University, E-business, Metasploit Framework, Network Security, Networking, Intrusion Detection, Security
- White papers 2006-05-12
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- Americans do not agree on global warming
- From alarmed to dismissive, all over the American map Americans are all over the map on global warming. A survey by Yale and George Mason University researchers found Americans deeply split, and placed the various general public opinions about climate change into six general types. ...
- Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- Reuters sues university over open-source citation extension
- Zotero, a Firefox plug-in, looks like an amazing tool for academic and legal writing, what with "automatic citation capture" from webpages, formatted citation export and integration with WordPress. Developed by George Mason University, the tool has already been adopted by 100 major institutions. So who doesn't like it?...
- Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Thomson Corp., GMU, Productivity, Open Source, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Can computers sort data like humans?
- Can computers sort data like humans?. . . and we're still guessing.Gotta like the field of AI. These people claim "we'll have human intelligence in 50 or so years." Yet we have a slight problem: We haven't the slightest idea how to objectively measure intelligence, much less recreate it. We...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, John N. Warfield, OPMS
- Discussion threads 2008-08-30
- Network Neutrality & Google's Openness Before The FCC
- Google clearly wants the FCC to make sure that other private companies’ networks are open equally to all Internet services. Now, it will be interesting to see if that applies to networks in which Google is involved. On Friday, the Commission takes up the question of whether...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Network, Comcast Corp., Clearwire Corp., Network Neutrality, Internet, Federal Government, Networking, Government, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007
- Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007With all due respectsIt's good and rather funny to see them get caught with their knickers down. Hopefully the network will apologize to the attendees sure they will or at least show the outing on one of the news shows.more due respectYou're...
- Tags: Undercover NBC Dateline
- Discussion threads 2007-08-03
- Will Congress lift moratorium on Internet sales tax?
- As the Internet increasingly becomes a place for people to shop and do business, the federal government wants a piece of the action. Several proposals are making the rounds of Congress that would undo a moratorium that blocks states from imposing their own taxes on Internet access, reports Wired NewsAt...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- Heavy demand for IT among DC defense contractors
- The government, federal contractors, even start-ups are hiring IT pros and those just graduating at an impressive rate, The Washington Post reports. If you have an comp sci degree and can pass clearance, you can pretty much write your own ticket these days. A study by the Greater Washington...
- Tags: job, Michael Gagnon, Washington-area, information technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- VA county a study in etech turnaround
- The Washington Post profiles Loudon County, Va.s school system, which 10 years ago was "limping along" but was recently awarded the National School Boards Associations Technology Salute District award. In March, a group of national educators will visit Loudoun and the two other districts to see how those jurisdictions...
- Tags: Corporate governance, WIRELESS, Loudoun, board, school system
- Blog posts 2006-12-25
- Prediction: Predictive markets will be a next big thing
- Prediction markets may be the next big thing. Maybe. At an evening “confab” at Yahoo a number of experts in the prediction market field talked about the value to corporations of tapping into collective intelligence . The author of popular book, The Wisdom of the Crowds, James Surowiecki moderated...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- College kids hauling in more stuff than ever
- This fall, kids weaned on PlayStations and laptops, iPods and X-boxes are cleaning out their bedrooms, loading up the SUVs and heading off to college— leaving behind nothing - nothing - but worried parents. The Washington Post reports that incoming college freshmen are toting more stuff to their tiny...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV
- Blog posts 2006-07-28
- Universities rocked by data breaches
- In what can only be called an epidemic of high-profile data security breaches, Ohio University has been hit five times since March 2005, leading to the breach of more than 300,000 student records. The latest theft reveals the precarious state of security at colleges, as institutions attempt to balance the...
- Tags: Ohio University
- Blog posts 2006-06-27
- Inside the dot-gov boom
- If you haven't noticed, big fish are gobbling up smaller fish in the government contracting biz these days. The Washington Post profiles some contractors who have cashed out, and they're not exactly cut from the same cloth as the dot-com crowd. ...
- Tags: Howton, government
- Blog posts 2006-04-10
- WikiProject on the History of Science
- Noted in message by Sage Ross, a grad student, in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology mailing list hosted by Michigan State University: The History of Science Wikiproject. Ross writes: As Wikipedia becomes more sophisticated, undergraduates will increasingly rely on it as a starting point (and ideally only...
- Tags: Wikipedia
- Blog posts 2006-02-05
- Understanding vulnerability: Does hiding information make us more or less safer?
- Two years ago, grad student Sean Gorman was researching the question of what parts of the national infrastructure would be most vulnerable to terrorist attack. His dissertation included "detailed maps of the intersections of and weak spots in the power, telecommunications and transportation networks that support the business and industrial...
- Tags: Sean Gorman
- Blog posts 2005-09-20
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