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An Immune Inspired Network Intrusion Detection System Utilising Correlation Context

Network Intrusion Detection Systems NIDS are computer systems which monitor a network with the aim of discerning malicious from benign activity on that network. While a wide range of approaches have met varying levels of success, most IDSs rely on having access to a database of known attack signatures which...

Tags: Network Intrusion Detection System, Network, University Of Nottingham, Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Detection, Security, Network Security, Networking

White papers 2008-04-08

The University of Nottingham Selects Finjan to Secure Its Network From Web Threats

With origins dating back to 1881 and a Royal Charter granted in 1948, The University of Nottingham is a leading research university located in the East Midlands region of England. The University wanted to secure their global IT infrastructure from web-based Crimeware threats. The University of Nottingham chose Finjan's secure...

Tags: Web, Network, University Of Nottingham, Finjan Software Inc., Channel Management, Marketing

Case studies 2008-04-07

Adaptive Alert Throttling for Intrusion Detection Systems

Each time an intrusion detection system raises an alert it must make some attempt to communicate the information to an operator. This communication channel can easily become the target of a denial of service attack because, like all communication channels, it has a fixed capacity. If this channel can become...

Tags: Communication Channel, University Of Nottingham, Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Detection, Network Security, Security, Networking

White papers 2008-01-01

Automated Schematization for Web Service Applications

Schematic map is a diagrammatic representation based on linear abstractions of networks. With the advent technologies for web based delivery of geospatial services it is essential to develop map generalization applications tailored for the same. This paper is concerned with the problem of producing automated schematic maps for web map...

Tags: Web, University Of Nottingham, Web Service, Channel Management, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-11-22

Is Gaming the System State-or-Trait?: Educational Data Mining Through the Multi-Contextual Application of a Validated Behavioral Model

This paper discusses the use of a validated behavioral model across multiple contexts. The paper shows that such a model can be used to distinguish between classes of explanations for why that behavior occurs. Specifically, the paper compares between state and trait explanations for why students game. The paper uses...

Tags: University Of Nottingham, Data Mining, Games, Personal Technology

White papers 2007-02-07

'Ecohomes' to save the planet?

The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change has been released two days ago and you can find hundreds of articles about it. For your information, I chose this comment from Nature, "How much will it cost to save the world?" The answer is simple: if we don't do...

Tags: University of Nottingham

Blog posts 2006-11-01

Additional Resources

FOWA 2009: Microsoft Surface 'proof of concept' actually pointless

The young whipper-snapper I spoke to, a computer science-studying university student at Nottingham Trent University, showed me a demonstration of the Surface table. I had seen it before and while I was initially impressed with the technology, we seemed to hit a defining moment when we both realised that...

Tags: Microsoft Surface, Device, Microsoft Corp., Education Authority, Projectors, Hardware, Components, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Citizen journalism captures 11 students arrested in counter-terror raids

Counter-terror police and intelligence service officers have arrested 11 students in Manchester, UK; one British national and ten Pakistani born nationals here in the UK on student visas, and a 41 year old man*. Raids on the central library at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK...

Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Student, U.K., Homeland Security, Government, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Controversial counter-terror policy in UK education networks

The UK government in recent weeks has strongly advised colleges and universities to monitor networks for Islamic fundamentalism and extremism. With the release of a "toolkit" by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, students are asking questions about their civil liberties. This such move which went...

Tags: Network, Student, Government, Web Site Development, Vertical Industries, Networking, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Nottingham NHS Trust - Intel® vPro™ technology Looks To The Future of IT Support

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest in the UK with an annual budget of more than £500 million (US $994 million). It's also one of the busiest with 2,000 beds divided between two campuses, Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital. And as a major...

Tags: Intel vPro, Information Technology, Intel Corp., Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Desktops, Strategy, Processors, Hardware, Management, Semiconductors, Components

White papers 2008-10-22

Real planes racing with a virtual one

A really unique competition was recently held in the skies of Spain. Sky Challenge was a race between two real planes and a virtual one organized by New Zealand based Air Sports Ltd. and the Geospatial Research Centre GRC, a New Zealand based company which is a joint venture between...

Tags: New Zealand, Plane, Roland Piquepaille, Aircraft, Satellite, Geospatial Research Centre, INS, GPS, Aerospace & Defense, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Manufacturing, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-10-19

Global security: is study restricted?

With the current state of terrorism threats and attacks, and cyber-crime on the increase, I seriously wonder if academics and students have full passage to "do as we like" in terms of studying, learning and educating ourselves and others. Earlier on this year, two personnel from the...

Tags: Security, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Government, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-26

This robot snake wants to dance with you

According to a short article in The Engineer Online, a two-meter high robotic snake will be shown in April 2008 at the London Science Museum. This vertical snake has been designed as an interactive sculpture. It uses sensors to react to what are doing its viewers and 'dances' with them....

Tags: Intention, Robotics, Sensor, World First, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-02

Marshal Case Study: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH)

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust NUH is one of the largest in the UK with an annual budget of more than £500 million. With a small ICT team supporting such a large number of end users, the challenge was to provide a robust external e-mail filtering service which would filter...

Tags: Hospital, Information And Communication Technology, E-mail Filtering, Marshal, E-mail, Spam, Strategy, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Management

Case studies 2008-01-10

UK Hospital Resolves User Problems 12 Times Faster With New Desktop Solution

The IT services department of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust manages 6,000 desktop computers across two busy sites. It wanted to streamline essential computer maintenance and install security updates - even when they were powered down or inaccessible to IT staff. Dell arranged for the trust to evaluate its Dell...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hospital, Productivity, Desktops, Security Administration, Hardware, Security

Case studies 2007-11-13

Why bicycles are so stable?

For almost 150 years now, mathematicians have tried to understand why a bicycle could be so stable. Now, researchers of the Delft University of Technology TU Delft, working with colleagues from Cornell University and the University of Nottingham, UK, say they've build a model which unravels how a bicycle works....

Tags: Bicycle, Product Development, Productivity, Product Marketing, Transportation, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-09-22

UK Cell phone cancer researchers: The jury is still out. Especially for kids.

The bad news, after the latest round of cell phone cancer research, is that cell phones have yet to be ruled out as a potential cause of brain cancer "or whether children face greater risks than adults, British scientists said on Wednesday." The cell phone industry would have you...

Tags: Phone, Radio, Cell Phone, Jury, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-09-12

An oven-fridge-generator powered by sound

Several UK universities are teaming to develop an inexpensive all-in-one appliance for developing countries. In "Burning wood to power fridges," Nature reports that the SCORE (Stove for Cooking, Refrigeration and Electricity) project will use "thermoacoustic technology to convert biomass fuels, such as wood, into energy to power the appliance." In...

Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment, Health &, Medicine, Science &, Nature

Blog posts 2007-05-16

Houses made of waste

Some engineers are more ambitious than others. Two UK engineers plan to replace the 350 million concrete blocks manufactured in the UK each year by blocks made almost entirely of waste materials such as crushed glass, pulverized fuel ash, and bitumen, a by-product of the petrochemical industry. The Bitublocks are...

Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment

Blog posts 2007-04-03