This paper seeks to investigate the applications, obstacles, and current offerings of cloud computing in the national security realm. First, the paper illustrates two primary national security applications that could benefit from cloud computing -biometric identification and maritime domain awareness. From these two applications, 6 general qualitative requirements of cloud computing are derived...

The discriminative approach to classification using deep neural networks has become the de-facto standard in various fields. Complementing recent reservations about safety against adversarial examples, we show that conventional discriminative methods can easily be fooled to provide incorrect labels with very high confidence to out of distribution examples. We posit that a generative approach is...

Large clinical trials have shown that oral postmenopausal estrogen treatment does not provide overall clinical benefit in chronic disease prevention,1,2 and current recommendations suggest that it be prescribed for only short durations for relief of menopausal symptoms. Because these drugs provide effective relief of menopausal symptoms, and venous thrombosis is the most common adverse vascular...