Ian Read Gibbons. 30 October 1931—30 January 2018

ATUBES: January 2018

Special Seminar Department of Chemistry Thursday , January 18 , 2018 Time 15 : 30 Bldg . 29 Room 307

Lecture 14 — October 30 , 2012

In the previous lecture, we began our discussion of pseudorandomness. We presented the BlumMicali definition of a pseudorandom generator, which defines pseudorandomness in terms of how hard it is for members of a specific computation class to distinguish between true randomness and generated randomness. We proved Yao’s theorem, which provides a link between the existence of certain pseudorandom...

Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, January/February 2018.

The Cochrane Collaboration is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing access to high-quality evidence on the effects of health care treatments. In the spring of 2009, the Cochrane Collaboration created a new international network specific to the field of nursing, bringing the total number of Cochrane networks to 16. Cochrane networks are interest groups that provide supp...

Draft : January 11 , 2018 CHAPTER 1 . ONE - TIME PAD

Secure communication is the act of conveying information from a sender to a receiver, while simultaneously hiding it from everyone else. Secure communication is the oldest application of cryptography, and remains the centerpiece of cryptography to this day. After all, the word cryptography means “hidden writing” in Greek. So, secure communication is a natural place to start our study of cryptog...