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Arizona's SIREN Speeds Information Flow, Helps to Avert Potential Epidemics
White Paper Epidemic. It is a word that can strike as much fear in a population as yelling "Fire" in a crowded movie theater. Whether the disease is SARS, the Bird Flu, or the West Nile Virus, the key to addressing a medical emergency - as well as to quell a... [30 Apr 2008]
UK's fastest supercomputer unveiled
News Work due to be carried out using Hector includes forecasting the impact of climate change, projecting the spread of disease epidemics and developing new medicines. The largest and most advanced supercomputer in the UK has been unveiled in Edinburgh. [15 Jan 2008]
Wireless Mesh Networks for Public Safety
White Paper Traditional disaster threats like extreme weather (e.g.hurricanes, blizzards), natural disasters (e.g.earthquakes, epidemics), and manmade disasters (e.g.transportation mishaps, hazardous material spills) have been joined by new threats (e.g... [31 Aug 2007]
Wireless Mesh Networks for Public Safety
White Paper Traditional disaster threats like extreme weather (e.g.hurricanes, blizzards), natural disasters (e.g.earthquakes, epidemics), and manmade disasters (e.g.transportation mishaps, hazardous material spills) have been joined by new threats (e.g... [10 Aug 2007]
The Effect of Network Topology on the Spread of Epidemics
White Paper Many network phenomena are well modeled as spreads of epidemics through a network. Many types of information dissemination can also be modeled as spreads of epidemics. More precisely, it identifies topological properties of the graph that determine... [24 May 2007]
Epidemic Spreading in Technological Networks
White Paper This dissertation proposes a new epidemiological model to account for particular characteristics of computer worm epidemics. Recent computer worms pose a major threat to large computer networks, and it is a general belief that understanding their... [11 Jan 2007]
Sun dropped from Darpa supercomputer project
News These computers will be used to simulate global climate changes or the spread of hypothetical epidemics. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) will continue to fund petaflop-class supercomputer projects at Cray and IBM but Sun... [22 Nov 2006]
Good Practice in Well-Linked Studies Using Several Methodologies
White Paper The purpose of the project was to increase and stabilise rice yields in intensive cropping systems in India and the Philippines, by developing and promoting sustainable strategies to manage rice tungro virus disease (RTVD), a disease occurring in... [18 Apr 2005]
Animal Disease Surveillance: A Framework for Supporting Disease Detection in Public Health
White Paper Animal disease surveillance can serve as sentinels for bioterrorist or natural infectious disease epidemics. As such, it is important to understand how animal disease affects humans and how this information can be obtained and monitored on a... [23 Feb 2005]
Windows update site overwhelmed by patch-hungry users
News Although the software giant has taken major steps to alleviate security concerns, such as delaying its next version of Windows in order to divert developers to its Windows XP Service Pack 2 security update, Microsoft has also had to contend with... [15 Apr 2004]
Technology and Epidemics
White Paper Evidence from historical and epidemiological literatures show that epidemics tend to spread in the population according to a logistic pattern. We conjecture that the impact of new technologies on output follows a pattern of spread not unlike that... [24 Feb 2004]
Directed-Graph Epidemiological Models of Computer Viruses
White Paper We determine the conditions under which epidemics are likely to occur, and in cases where they do, we explore the dymanics of the expected number of infected individuals as a function of time. Despite serious concerns raised by the proven ability... [24 Feb 2004]
Universities study dangers of tech "monoculture"
News Massive digital epidemics - such as the Code Red, Slammer and MSBlast worms - have infected hundreds of thousands of computer systems, leaving scientists to wonder if worse is in store for the internet. [26 Nov 2003]
Microsoft publishes handy Windows tips
News At the same time, one of Microsoft's biggest problems is widespread security breaches or virus epidemics that exploit software bugs the software giant has already fixed. Microsoft has issued five guides to help businesses with a range of Windows... [10 Dec 2002]
The Effect of Network Topology on the Spread of Epidemics
Many network phenomena are well modeled as spreads of epidemics through a network. Many types of information dissemination can also be modeled as spreads of epidemics. More precisely, it identifies topological properties of the graph that determine... [01 Jan 1970]
