The LHCb experiment control system : on the path to full automation

http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/icalepcs2011/papers/mobaust06.pdfInternational audienceThe experiment control system is in charge of the configuration, control and monitoring of the different subdetectors and of all areas of the online system. The building blocks of the control system are based on the PVSS SCADA System complemented by a control Framework developed in common for the 4 LHC experiments. This framework includes an "expert system" like tool called SMI++ which is used for the system automation. The experiment's operations are now almost completely automated, driven by a top-level object called Big-Brother, which pilots all the experiment's standard procedures and the most common error-recovery procedures. The architecture, tools and mechanisms used for the implementation as well as some operational examples will be described

Security of Linear Secret-Sharing Schemes against Mass Surveillance

Following the line of work presented recently by Bellare, Paterson and Rogaway, we formalize and investigate the resistance of linear secret-sharing schemes to mass surveillance. This primitive is widely used to design IT systems in the modern computer world, and often it is implemented by a proprietary code that the provider (“big brother”) could manipulate to covertly violate the privacy of the users (by implementing Algorithm-Substitution Attacks or ASAs). First, we formalize the security notion that expresses the goal of big brother and prove that for any linear secret-sharing scheme there exists an undetectable subversion of it that efficiently allows surveillance. Second, we formalize the security notion that assures that a sharing scheme is secure against ASAs and construct the first sharing scheme that meets this notion. This work could serve as an important building block towards constructing systems secure against mass surveillance

Personal Data Security: Divergent Standards in the European Union and the United States

This Note argues that the U.S. Government should discontinue all attempts to establish EES as the de facto encryption standard in the United States because the economic disadvantages associated with widespread implementation of EES outweigh the advantages this advanced data security system provides. Part I discusses the EU\u27s legislative efforts to ensure personal data security and analyzes the evolution of encryption technology in the United States. Part II examines the methods employed by the U.S. Government to establish EES as the de facto U.S. encryption standard. Part III argues that the U.S. Government should terminate its effort to establish EES as the de facto U.S. encryption standard and institute an alternative standard that ensures continued U.S. participation in the international marketplace

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Reserve Study Rooms Online “User Friendly” Library Website Honored by ACRL Check Out the Library’s Mobile Website! Library Innovations: New ILS Forget your ………………. Borrow One! For A Limited Time Only! Check Out HELIN Database Trials Bryant Celebrates 150 Years! The Buildings of Bryant’s Beginnings Spot light on our awesome Student Worker, Adrian Simpson! Krupp Library Staff’s Bill Doughty earns MLI

Interview with Albert S. Peeling, June 3, 1995

Albert S. Peeling was interviewed on June 3, 1995 by Michael J. Birkner & David Hedrick about his years as a student at Gettysburg College in the class of 1925. Peeling discusses his memories of the faculty as a history major and life at the college at the time, such as living quarters and athletics. Length of Interview: 57 minutes Collection Note: This oral history was selected from the Oral History Collection maintained by Special Collections & College Archives. Transcripts are available for browsing in the Special Collections Reading Room, 4th floor, Musselman Library. GettDigital contains the complete listing of oral histories done from 1978 to the present. To view this list and to access selected digital versions please visit -- http://gettysburg.cdmhost.com/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16274coll

Interview with Katie McGready

An oral history interview with Mary Catherine Bussey Boice (Katie) McGready, the first medical librarian in the Texas Medical Center, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. Mary Catherine Bussey Boice “Katie” McGready became the first medical librarian in the Texas Medical Center when Dr. Ernst W. Bertner asked to her to begin the medical library at what was then the fledgling MD Anderson Cancer Center. She was among the first employees at the Cancer Center, then located at “The Oaks,” the estate of the late Colonel James A. Baker at 2310 Baldwin Street in Houston. Born in rural Timpson, Texas, she was the only daughter with four brothers – two older and one younger. Her journey from running the soda fountain in her father’s drugstore to several jobs in the nascent Texas Medical Center reflects not only the early days there but also the lives of young women in Texas in the early 20th century. She married twice – first to Dr. Edward Henry “Ned” Boice, whom she met when she was learning medical librarian duties at The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. They had five children – Betsy McPhaden of Seattle, Bill Boice of Atlanta, Peggy Boice of Houston, Cathy Bacon of Houston and Jim Boice of Austin. Later, as a widow, she married Frances Cornelius “Mac” McGready, which whom she lived many happy years before his death in 2009

Spartan Daily, November 5, 2007

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Evaluation of exercises designed to increase children's use of descriptive words.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit