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Preventing Problems: Georgia Tech Helps to Develop System That Will Detect Insider Threats from Massive Data Sets

By Guest PostNovember 13, 2011Technologyadams, advanced statistical anomaly detection methods, algorithm, anomaly detection at multiple scales, army research office, carnegie mellon university, cyber network, darpa, david a bader, defense advanced research projects agency, edmond chow, electronically recorded activities, email, erica briscoe, file transfers, fred wright, georgia institute of technology, georgia tech research institute, gtri, homicidal, insider threats, irfan essa, john fratamico, joshua l davis, lora weiss, oregon state university, prototype, richard boyd, saic, scalable graph processing algorithms, science applications international corporation, soldier in good mental health, text messages, university of massachusetts, unusual activity

When a soldier in good mental health becomes homicidal or a government employee abuses access privileges to share classified information, we often wonder why no one saw it coming. When looking through the evidence after the fact, a trail often exists that, had it been noticed, could have possibly provided enough time to intervene and prevent an incident.

With support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Army Research Office, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are collaborating with scientists from four other organizations to develop new approaches for identifying these “insider threats” before an incident occurs. The two-year, $9 million project will create a suite of algorithms that can detect multiple types of insider threats by analyzing massive amounts of data — including email, text messages and file transfers — for unusual activity. (more…)

JPL-Developed Clean Energy Technology Moves Forward

By Guest PostMay 30, 2011Environmentandrew kindler, caltech, darpa, defense advanced research projects agency, department of defense, direct methanol fuel cell technology, electric vehicles, electrical energy, erik brandon, fuel cell, george olah, gerald halpert, harvey frank, hydrogen gas, jet propulsion laboratory, los angeles, methanol fuel cell products, NASA, nobel laureate, pasadena, rao surampudi, stand alone power systems, surya prakash, university of southern california, us market, water and carbon dioxide

A team of scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., in partnership with the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, developed a Direct Methanol Fuel Cell technology for future Department of Defense and commercial applications. Recently, USC and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, which manages JPL for NASA, awarded a license to SFC Energy, Inc., the U.S. affiliate of SFC Energy AG. The non-exclusive license for the technology will facilitate the expansion of the company’s methanol fuel cell products into the U.S. market. (more…)

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Preventing Problems: Georgia Tech Helps to Develop System That Will Detect Insider Threats from Massive Data Sets

JPL-Developed Clean Energy Technology Moves Forward