Caesar is a distributed, social code review tool designed for the specific constraints and goals of a programming course. Caesar is capable of scaling to a large and diverse reviewer population, provides automated tools for increasing reviewer efficiency, and implements a social web interface for reviewing that encourages discussion and participation. Our system is implemented in three loosely-...

The Competition for Authenticated Encryption: Security, Applicability and Robustness (CAESAR) has as its official goal to “identify a portfolio of authenticated ciphers that offer advantages over AES-GCM and are suitable for widespread adoption.” Each of the 15 candidate schemes competing in the currently ongoing 3rd round of CAESAR must clearly declare its security claims, i.a. whether or not ...

Authenticated encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) plays a significant role in cryptography because of its ability to provide integrity, confidentiality and authenticity at the same time. Due to the emergence of security at the edge of computing fabric, such as, sensors and smartphone devices, there is a growing need of lightweight AEAD ciphers. Currently, a worldwide contest, titled CAESAR, ...

A prototype Decision Support System for Coalition Operations (DSCCO) is being developed by SPAWAR Systems Center – San Diego to support the Operations Planning Team (OPT) of the Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Command. The goal of DSCCO is to apply and integrate organizational design concepts and decision support technologies in planning and executing multi-national coalition operatio...

MOTIVATION Identification of the genetic variation underlying complex traits is challenging. The wealth of information publicly available about the biology of complex traits and the function of individual genes permits the development of informatics-assisted methods for the selection of candidate genes for these traits. RESULTS We have developed a computational system named CAESAR that ranks ...

We have proposed a Bayesian approach for functional parcellation of whole-brain FMRI measurements which we call Clustered Activity Estimation with Spatial Adjacency Restrictions (CAESAR). We use distance-dependent Chinese restaurant processes (dd-CRPs) to define a flexible prior which partitions the voxel measurements into clusters whose number and shapes are unknown a priori. With dd-CRPs we c...

Complex event processing is a popular technology for continuously monitoring high-volume event streams from health care to traffic management to detect complex compositions of events. These event compositions signify critical “application contexts” from hygiene violations to traffic accidents. Certain event queries are only appropriate in particular contexts. Yet state-of-the-art streaming engi...