Emerging Authentication Solutions
Louie Gasparini, RSA Security
10/11/2007
This talk is about authentication in the consumer and financial services industries, and how behavioral modeling using Bayesian and neural net models complement credentials for authentication decisions.
Virtualization
Maurice R. del Prado Jr., IBM
10/18/2007
Virtualization is defined, in simple terms, as the process of running multiple instances of an environment, such as an operating system and applications, on a single physical system. Server virtualization has gained widespread acceptance with many users, from large enterprises to small businesses, after a slow and rocky start. Today, VMWare, Xen and Microsoft Virtual Server are well-known virtualization products. Virtualization has many benefits but must be carefully planned, implemented and managed. This talk will provide an overview of virtualizations, how it impacts hardware and software, and how users are implementing it.
Elements Of Computer Game Design
Jason Shankel, Maxsi
10/25/2007
The art of computer game design is beginning to mature into a craft. This talk presents the key elements and emerging vocabulary of computer game design.
Web 2.0: A Conversation
David Singer, IBM
11/01/2007
What is Web 2.0? A technology? A social concept? Is it even new? How is it being used by IBM and others?
The Significant-Digit Phenomenon, Or Benford's Law
Ted Hill, Georgia Tech and Cal Poly SLO
11/08/2007
A century-old empirical observation now called Benford's Law says that the significant digits of many real datasets are logarithmically distributed, rather than uniformly distributed, as might be expected. New discoveries show that geometric Brownian motion (hence the stock market), and many algorithms including Newton's method also follow Benford's Law. This talk will briefly survey some of thecolorful history of the problem, and applications to fraud detection, analysis of running times of algorithms, and diagnostic tests for mathematicalmodels. The talk will include graphical heuristics, examples and open problems, and will be aimed for the non-specialist.