Jeeves for Security

Jeeves is a programming language for automatically enforcing security policies. Jeeves allows the programmer to separately implement policies on sensitive values from other functionality. The Jeeves runtime is responsible for showing the appropriate output given the viewer.  Learn more about it @
http://projects.csail.mit.edu/jeeves/index.php

Hand-made School in India

Creativity is everything!

http://www.archdaily.com/51664/handmade-school-anna-heringer-eike-roswag/

2 Cyber-security Reports

US Government's Preliminary Cyber-security Framework:

http://www.nist.gov/itl/upload/preliminary-cybersecurity-framework.pdf

IT Industry’s Cyber-security Principles for Industry and Government:

http://www.itic.org/dotAsset/191e377f-b458-4e3d-aced-e856a9b3aebe.pdf

Robotic Police

US company launches robot security guard

 

The night watchman of the future is 5 feet tall, weighs 300 pounds and looks a lot like R2-D2 - without the whimsy. And will work for US$6.25 an hour.

 

A company in California has developed a mobile robot, known as the K5 Autonomous Data Machine, as a safety and security tool for corporations, as well as for schools and neighborhoods.

 

"We founded Knightscope after what happened at Sandy Hook," said William Santana Li, a co-founder of that technology company, now based in Sunnyvale, Calif. "You are never going to have an armed officer in every school." [Unfortunately, or fortunately, as the case may be.]

 

 

Mobile Technology & Service Delivery

http://www.brookings.edu/events/2013/12/11-mobile-technology-improving-service-delivery

News of 3-D Priniting

Microsoft Research:

http://www.rapidreadytech.com/2013/09/microsoft-preps-additive-manufacturing-for-the-internet-of-things/

HP:
http://www.rapidreadytech.com/2013/10/hp-indicates-plans-to-enter-the-additive-manufacturing-market-by-2014/

Article:

http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aabndb.htm

Free Active Directory eBook

Free Active Directory Group Management eBook (requires registration) @ http://imanami.com/free-ebook/

Cyber-Physical Systems

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are integrations of computation, networking, and physical processes.   Learn more about them @ http://cyberphysicalsystems.org/

Free 3-D CAD Tool

http://www.designspark.com/eng/page/mechanical

Design News 2013 Salary & Opinion Survey

http://www.designnews.com/lg_redirect.asp?piddl_lgid_docid=266476

(Requires Registration)

3-D Printing News

1.     eBay Unveils 3D Printing App:

 

a.     http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386&doc_id=265622&dfpPParams=ind_186,industry_consumer,aid_265622&dfpLayout=blog

 

2.     Applications for Gradient Metal Alloys Fabricated Using Additive Manufacturing

 

a.       http://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/17446

Swarms and Micro-robots

I-Swarm:

 

http://www.i-swarm.org/MainPage/Project/P_Overview1.htm

 

Institute for Process Control and Robotics

 

http://rob.ipr.kit.edu/english/

 

Harvard Microrobotics Lab

 

http://micro.seas.harvard.edu/

 

Maryland Microrobotics Laboratory

 

https://sites.google.com/site/microroboticslaboratory/

 

Berkeley Biomimetic Millisystems Lab

 

http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Biomimetics.html

Two JavaScript Books

In addition to the now quite famous "JavaScript: The Good Parts" by Douglas Crockford check out the following books that discuss JavaScript from a Functional Programming view point:

1. "Functional JavaScript" by MichaelFogus.  You will need to understand the Underscore JavaScript Library (http://underscorejs.org/) since the book heavily uses that.
2. "JavaScript Allongé" by Reginald Braithwaite.

Smartphones for smart ….

From the BBC

I was going to buy one – it sounds so cool !!! – but I think I have changed my mind.

 

 “Internet of Things” has started giving me the willies!

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A luxury toilet controlled by a smartphone app is vulnerable to attack, according to security experts.

 

Retailing for up to $5,686 (£3,821), the Satis toilet includes automatic flushing, bidet spray, music and fragrance release.

 

The toilet, manufactured by Japanese firm Lixil, is controlled via an Android app called My Satis.

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23575249

 

 

CSIS Reports on Cyber-security

The Economic Impact of Cybercrime and Cyber Espionage @ http://csis.org/files/publication/60396rpt_cybercrime-cost_0713_ph4_0.pdf

and

Significant Cyber Events @ http://csis.org/files/publication/130711_Significant_Cyber_Incidents_Since_2006.pdf

Cauliflower Creativity

Data visualization: ambiguity as a fellow traveler

From Nature Methods:

http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v10/n7/pdf/nmeth.2530.pdf

Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere

"I have been asked by my superiors to give a brief demonstration of the surprising effectiveness of even the simplest techniques of the new-fangled Social Networke Analysis in the pursuit of those who would seek to undermine the liberty enjoyed by His Majesty’s subjects.
 
This is in connection with the discussion of the role of “metadata” in certain recent events and the assurances of various respectable parties that the government was merely “sifting through this so-called metadata” and that the “information acquired does not include the content of any communications”.
 
I will show how we can use this “metadata” to find key persons involved in terrorist groups operating within the Colonies at the present time. I shall also endeavour to show how these methods work in what might be called a relational manner." 

Immigration Facts: Temporary Foreign Workers

http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2013/06/18-temporary-workers-wilson

Smart Color Pen