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Safety in Numbers: Threat Intelligence System Enables Corporate and Government Organizations to Share Malware Information

By Guest PostMay 29, 2012Technologyandrew howard, android-based devices, attack, christopher smoak, compromise, computer network, corporate, depth of knowledge, gary meek, george macon, georgia tech, gtisc, gtri, hackers, industrial espionage, intelligence system, mac malware, macintosh computers, malicious software, malware, malware threat, researcher, spear phishing, titan, titan project, weapon, windows based computers, windows os

As malware threats expand into new domains and increasingly focus on industrial espionage, Georgia Tech researchers are launching a new weapon to help battle the threats: a malware intelligence system that will help corporate and government security officials share information about the attacks they are fighting.

Known as Titan, the system will be at the center of a security community that will help create safety in numbers as companies large and small add their threat data to a knowledge base that will be shared with all participants. Operated by security specialists at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the system builds on a threat analysis foundation – including a malware repository that analyzes and classifies an average of 100,000 pieces of malicious code each day.

“As a university, Georgia Tech is uniquely positioned to take this white hat role in between industry and government,” said Andrew Howard, a GTRI research scientist who is part of the Titan project. “We want to bring communities together to break down the walls between industry and government to provide a trusted, sharing platform.” (more…)

Evolving to Fight Epidemics: Weakness Can Be an Advantage

By Guest PostMarch 31, 2012Sciencechristopher klausmeier, daphnia dentifera, daphnia population, david civitello, disease, ecological factor, ecosystems, evolution, georgia tech, indiana lakes, infection, jessica housley ochs, magnitude, meghan duffy, metschnikowia bicuspidate, nutrient concentration, parasite epidemic, rachel penczykowski, saran twombly, spencer hall, total nitrogen, vertebrate predator, water fleas, yeast parasite, zooplankton

*Less resistance can sometimes be better than more–at least in a freshwater lake*

When battling a deadly parasite epidemic, less resistance can sometimes be better than more, a new study suggests.

A freshwater zooplankton species known as Daphnia dentifera endures periodic epidemics of a virulent yeast parasite that can infect more than 60 percent of the Daphnia population.

During these epidemics, the Daphnia population evolves quickly, balancing infection resistance and reproduction. (more…)

iPhone App May Support Monitoring and Research on Parkinson’s Disease

By Guest PostJune 21, 2011Health, Technologyadvanced technology development center, app store, apple inc, atdc, brian parise, dyskinesia, emory university, food and drug administration, georgia tech, georgia tech research institute, gtri, iphone application, itrem, neurological conditions, parkinson disease, puzzle games, robert delano, startup, stewart factor, university of south florida, wife heather

Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have developed a novel iPhone application that may enable persons with Parkinson’s disease and certain other neurological conditions to use the ubiquitous devices to collect data on hand and arm tremors and relay the results to medical personnel.

The researchers believe the application could replace subjective tests now used to assess the severity of tremors, while potentially allowing more frequent patient monitoring without costly visits to medical facilities. (more…)

Revolutionary Computing: $100 Million DARPA Program to Develop Next Generation of High Performance Computers

By Guest PostNovember 10, 2010Technology, Weapons57 kilowatts, aircraft, battlefield, computers, computing power, dan campbell, darpa, david bader, energy efficient package, georgia tech, hydrodynamics, mark richards, massachusetts institute of technology, powerful, ubiquitous high performance computing, uhpc

Imagine that one of the world’s most powerful high performance computers could be packed into a single rack just 24 inches wide and powered by a fraction of the electricity consumed by comparable current machines. That would allow an unprecedented amount of computing power to be installed on aircraft, carried onto the battlefield for commanders – and made available to researchers everywhere.

Putting this computing power into a small and energy-efficient package, and making it reliable and easier to program, are among the goals of the new DARPA Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) initiative. Georgia Tech researchers from three different units are supporting key components of this $100 million challenge, which will require development of revolutionary approaches not bound by existing computing paradigms. (more…)

The Rise of Google’s iCar

By Guest PostOctober 21, 2010Science, Technologyautomation, cars, collision avoidance system, darpa challenge, e550, georgia tech, golden gate bridge, Google, icar, lake tahoe, lombard street, mercedes benz, navigation, olivia coleman, pacific coast highway, pedestrian warning system, robotics, sebastian thrun, self-driving vehicles, software engineer, Technology, traffic fatalities, vision 2020, volvo s60, world health organization, zero-fatality

With the recent advancements in robotics, automation, navigation, and self-driving vehicles, all spurred on by the DARPA Challenge and the research at Georgia Tech among other programs, it’s no surprise to hear that Google has been working very hard on these same kinds of technology.

Sebastian Thrun, Distinguished Software Engineer at Google, recently announced on their blog that so far Google’s efforts to create a self-driving car have been largely successful, though he made it a point to say that the program was still very much in the experimental stages. (more…)

Teraflop Troubles: The Power of Graphics Processing Units May Threaten the World’s Password Security System

By Guest PostAugust 23, 2010Technologyamd, brute forcing, carl mastrangelo, georgia tech, georgia tech research institute, gpu, graphics processing unit, gtri, nvidia corp, password protection, richard boyd, seven-character password, software programs, supercomputer, Technology

It’s been called revolutionary – technology that lends supercomputer-level power to any desktop. What’s more, this new capability comes in the form of a readily available piece of hardware, a graphics processing unit (GPU) costing only a few hundred dollars.

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