Keeping them guessing

Artificial livers--what's keeping them?

Keeping Them on the Field

M usculoskeletal injuries are an integral part of many sports. Contact sports seem to produce the most, with football, hockey, soccer, and basketball leading the way. As athletes compete and push themselves to improve, sprains, strains, contusions, and other injuries become part of the daily routine. Those often attending to these athletes with regular aches and pains are athletic trainers, phy...

Cleaning Up Very Large Databases and Keeping Them Clean

This presentation shows a real-world example of how a very large Customer database was cleansed and de-duplicated to shrink it down to a manageable size. The techniques used to do this are shown, as well as the processes that were implemented to maintain the new level of data cleanliness. The tricks and techniques are applicable to customer files or databases of any size in any business. Actual...

Keeping the other candidate guessing: Electoral competition when preferences are private information

We analyze a, model of two candidate competition in which candidate and voter preferences are private information. If candidates simultaneously commit to policy platforms the uncertainty about candidate preferences reinforces the incentive for platform divergence. After a candidate observes the other candidate’s stance but before she learns about voter preferences she may face regret about her ...

What are Multi-Protocol Guessing Attacks and How to Prevent Them

A guessing attack on a security protocol is an attack where an attacker guesses a poorly chosen secret (usually a low-entropy user password) and then seeks to verify that guess using other information. Past efforts to address guessing attacks in terms of design or analysis considered only protocols executed in isolation. However, security protocols are rarely executed in isolation and reality i...