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What about the Therac-25?
Someone suggested that Dennis Quaid should be reminded of the Therac-25 “if he thinks computers will reduce risk without a huge investment in quality, quality assurance and operational analysis.” For...
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What we can learn from the Therac-25
What does Nancy Leveson’s classic analysis of the Therac-25 recommend? (“An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents,” by Nancy Leveson, University of Washington and Clark S. Turner, University of...
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NANOG: Submarine adopts 40G and 100G
Per Hansen of Ciena at NANOG 50 talked about growing capacity not by adding more data cables under the sea, rather by increasing spectral density. Eventually new cables will be needed, but meanwhile...
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Daniel Karrenberg and RIPE Atlas
Daniel Karrenberg shows an animation related to RIPE Atlas, RIPE’s new active measurement project using USB-powered dongles scattered around the Internet. Video by jsq at RIPE 61 in Rome, Italy, 15...
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Transparency in Rome
Here’s my presentation, Transparency as Incentive for Internet Security: Organizational Layers for Reputation, from RIPE 61 in Rome. This presentation summarizes the two previous RIPE Labs papers...
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“botnet herders can add it to its spam-spewing botnet”—Fahmida Y. Rashid in...
This reporter spits out a string of alliterative language that labels the problem that SpamRankings.net helps diagnose. Fahmida Y. Rashid wrote in eWeek.com 8 June 2011, UT Researchers Launch...
View ArticleWorld PM2.5 Map as reputation
NASA posted 22 October 2009, New Map Offers a Global View of Health-Sapping Air Pollution In many developing countries, the absence of surface-based air pollution sensors makes it difficult, and in...
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John Quarterman on Mapping Spam and Politics (audio)
At a meeting on a completely different subject, I was interviewed about SpamRankings.net. Here's the audio, and here's the blurb they supplied: John S. Quarterman, long time Internet denizen, wrote...
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