in this paper we set out to accomplish several goals. primarily, we seek to re-interpret guy debord’s (1967) work the society of the spectacle in light of modern-day schooling, principally within north america (although we recognize the global connectivity inherent in any current discussion of formal education). in addition, we aim to utilize debord’s conceptualizations as a series of means and...

in this paper we set out to accomplish several goals. primarily, we seek to re-interpret guy debord’s (1967) work the society of the spectacle in light of modern-day schooling, principally within north america (although we recognize the global connectivity inherent in any current discussion of formal education). in addition, we aim to utilize debord’s conceptualizations as a series of means and...

We propose new security architecture, called Fail-Safe Security Architecture (FSSA), which eliminates, or at least minimizes, the chance of privacy leaks for e-commerce customers, protecting their privacy even for the worst cases: the security administrators of the e-commerce servers convert to attackers or the merchants servers are hijacked by external attackers, giving the attackers full acce...

This paper introduces a new collaboration abstraction, called Semantic Room (SR), specifically targeted to facilitating sharing and processing large volumes of data produced and consumed in real time by a collection of networked participants. The model enables constructing flexible collaborative event-driven distributed systems with well-defined and contractually regulated properties and behavi...

Maritime domain awareness is critical for protecting sea lanes, ports, harbors, offshore structures and critical infrastructures against common threats and illegal activities. Limited surveillance resources constrain maritime domain awareness and compromise full security coverage at all times. This situation calls for innovative intelligent systems for interactive situation analysis to assist m...

An empirical relationship has been documented between gratitude and materialism, such that stronger feelings of gratitude are associated with lower materialism. Building on Fredrickson’s (1998, 2001) theory that positive emotions ‘broaden’ and ‘build’ we sought to expand upon this finding by (1) examining satisfaction with life as a potential mechanism for this relationship, and (2) exploring t...

From its ancient origin as a tool for protecting sensitive wartime or espionage-related messages, cryptography has become a foundational building-block for securing the systems, protocols, and infrastructure that underpin our modern interconnected world. But the physical mechanisms used in performing encryption and decryption can leak information, making it possible to bypass this security. Pro...