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Viewpoint of ISO GMITS and Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Information Security

Viewing the previous studies on the quantification of information security risks, one of the most popular tools is ISO GMITS, which quantifies the risk of information asset on the whole based on the scores of information asset, threat, and vulnerability. However, in her previous study, the author maintained that "Probabilistic...

Tags: Information Security, Risk Assessment, Risk, Kyoto University, ISO, Viewpoint Corp., Security, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2009-03-10

Photos: Bots on the catwalk

The latest humanoid robot by Kyoto University's Tomotaka Takahashi poses like a fashion model.

Tags: Robots, Kyoto University, bot, robot

Image galleries 2006-04-25

Additional Resources

One more voice AGAINST geo-engineering to combat global warming

Fuller, you are spamming ZDNet.Every day your alarmist short blurbs, without any intelligent analysis, becomes boring.Have you ever considered taking a real job?Oh, btw, what happened to your standard 'disclaimer'? Wrong on that also?And what is it, global warming or climate change? You keep on flip flopping.Seriously, get an honorable...

Tags: geo-engineering, global warming, everyday live, green technology, too-often

Discussion threads 2009-08-09

Change of political climate re: climate change

There'll be a change in climate change politics in the U.S. effective January 21, 2009. Environmental advocates are pointing to a line-up of strong scientifically-trained appointees, in contrast to the current administration where politics consistently trumped science. Some of the promises made during the campaign by the Obama...

Tags: Climate, Environmental Advocate, Social Security, Recruitment & Selection, Government, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-22

Don't F: with our networks

A good friend of mine from a university in north-west England got an email through from their network administrators at the end of last week, basically saying, "...every time you plug in your flash drive, we see it offloading a whole load of malicious files to the computer you're...

Tags: Network, Antivirus, USB Flash Drive, Flash Memory, Viruses And Worms, Security, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-12-15

The next generation will deal with global warming, we promise

The next generation will deal with global warming, we promiseEmission cuts promised unfeasible without clean coalWithout clean coal, the emission cuts promised by the G8 puny though they are are unfeasible: "The vast majority of new power stations in China and India will be coal-fired; not "may be coal-fired"; will...

Tags: global warming, emission cut

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

Yamanaka reopens stem cell debate

The ethical and political debate about using stem cells from human embryos has been reignited, through an interview with the Japanese researcher behind an alternate production method. Shinya Yamanaka (right, from Wired), the Kyoto University researcher given co-credit for the discovery, alongside James Thomson of the University...

Tags: Stem-cell, Argument, Embryo, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-11

Stem cell finding does not end debate

The discovery of regulator genes which can turn skin cells into stem cells does not end the scientific debate over the use of stem cells from human embryos, according to the scientists who made the discovery. (The picture of a human stem cell is from the Wellcome...

Tags: Stem-cell, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-26

Is the stem cell debate over?

Word that scientists have succeeded in turning skin cells into stem cells has gone across the world like a thunderclap. Separate findings from the University of Wisconsin and Kyoto University in Japan show that the technique, called direct programming, works. Alongside the scientific excitement...

Tags: Stem-cell, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-20

All things Kyoto, now they tell us

All things Kyoto, now they tell usNo surpriseNot least because Kyoto deliberately left half of the problem off of the table: carbon-fixation reductions. What matters is the whole emission/fixation balance; reducing emissions while also reducing carbon binding by a greater amount isn't going to help.what happens when you have...

Tags: extinction, Kyoto

Discussion threads 2007-10-25

Internet maps are blooming

It is important to understand network topology to predict its performance and its resilience to attacks. This is why computer scientists at UC San Diego have developed new algorithms which create Internet maps. Their maps -- looking like digital dandelions -- show Internet nodes and their linkages. But they are...

Tags: Network Topology, Internet, Network, Goal, Topology, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-09-02

A new 'female' robot

More than two years ago, I told you that female robots were coming. Now, Tomotaka Takahashi, founder of Robo Garage, a spin-off of Kyoto University, and creator of several famous robots, has unveiled his 'Female Type' robot also named FT. According to a brief article from Mainichi Daily News, FT...

Tags: robot, Robo Garage

Blog posts 2006-04-08

CDC looks to cell phones for outbreak containment

It hasn't happened yet, but what happens if and when avian flu starts to spread from person to person? Well, a lot of bad things, so the need for people in affected areas to take proactive measures is critical. The Centers for Disease Control is...

Tags: CDC, mobile, evacuation, outbreak

Blog posts 2006-01-18