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Starting a New Business

geeko.boy — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:13:06 +0000

For the past 4 year or more I’ve been working part-time as an Information Broker. Well after much thought and discussion with my wife I’ve decided to turn this into a business. I’m not sure whether I’m going to launch this new business under my own name or create a company name yet. I’m hoping to have a business website up and running in the next month or so, but we will see. I’m also looking into which professional organizations best represent the needs of an information professional. As a member of IEEE, SPIE, and IACR I have come to learn the benefits that can come from being part of an organization that reflects my interests. Two organization have come up in my search that may fit my needs the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) and The Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP).

Upcoming Conferences I’d like to attend.

geeko.boy — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:05:00 +0000

This list below are conferences in the next 12 months I’d like to attend. There is some overlap. Mostly I’ll go to ones near Ottawa, but it would be nice to get to some of the others as well.

2011 IFIP Wireless Days (WD), 10 Oct – 12 Oct 2011, The Embassy Suites Niagara Falls Fallsview Hotel Niagara Falls, ON, Canada

SecTor, October 18 & 19, 2011.MTCC, Toronto, ON, Canada

SecureTech 2011, 25 Oct 2011 – 26 Oct 2011, Ottawa Convention Centre, Ottawa, Canada

MILCOM 2011, Baltimore Convention Centre, Baltimore, Maryland, November 7-9, 2011

SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 23 – 27 April 2012, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, San Francisco Bay Area, California, Spring 2012

2012 World Congress on Internet Security (WorldCIS-2012), 10 Jun – 12 Jun 2012, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

ICC 2012 – 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 10 Jun – 15 Jun 2012, Convention Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada

2012 79th ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference (ARFTG), 22 Jun – 22 Jun 2012, Hyatt Hotel, Montreal, AB, Canada

2012 American Control Conference – ACC 2012, 27 Jun – 29 Jun 2012, QE Fairmont Hotel, Montreal, QC, Canada

2012 11th International Conference on Information Sciences, Signal Processing and their Applications (ISSPA), 03 Jul – 05 Jul 2012, Ecole de technologie superieure, Montreal, QC, Canada

Photonics North 2012, Hilton Montreal Bonaventure : June 6 to 8, 2012

2012 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA), 11 Jul – 13 Jul 2012, Delta Ottawa City Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada

2012 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), 03 Sep – 06 Sep 2012, TBD,Quebec City, QC, Canada

Security Related Articles

geeko.boy — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:04:06 +0000

Dropbox Admits It Suffered Serious Password Failure

Canada Launches Anti-Fraud Plastic Banknotes

Is This the LulzSec/Anon Warrior’s Handbook? [Hackers]

Hackers Exploiting Latest Adobe Flash Bug On Large Scale

An ultra-fast optical switch for quantum networking

How to Know if Hackers Have Stolen Your Password

Teenager Arrested In Essex Over LulzSec Hacking Attacks

Botclouds: a cyberattacker’s dream

Advances In Humanoid Robots

DWW — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:52:03 +0000

Romeo, shown here in a computer-generated rendering, is a French humanoid robot designed to assist elderly and disabled people. Image: Aldebaran Robotics

The IEEE Spectrum magazine is running an article about the work of a Paris-based Aldebaran Robotics, and the development of a humanoid robot. There are several countries around the world that are working in this field… Japan comes to mind. NASA and General Motors have sent the upper torso of a humanoid robot into space.

I know from this are previous articles on this topic that the publicly stated goals for creating such a robot is providing assisted living help to seniors. Also, as stated in the article in regards to the choice for locomotion and bipedal movement, it was the challenge that drove the choice for a full human like robot. I think the challenge drives most of this research, it is not easy. It requires light weight motors, actuators, light weight materials, long life batteries, communications (voice recognition), and vision. All difficult hurdles to create a humanoid robot which can actually perform useful skills for the humans they will serve.

My question is, when can I get one.

Seriously, what geek would not want to have a fully functioning humanoid robot. If they don’t could they really be a true geek.

Summer Is Here: Time To Go To A Conference

DWW — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:39:31 +0000

Well I’ve scrounged up enough money to go to this conference. Though I can not attend the full 3 days. Actually I’ve paid for three days just can not afford to take the full 3 days off of work. I should be about to attend 1/2 the presentations. Some of the stuff looks super interesting. Sadly, my experience is that even if the topic is ultra cool, you end up with some super nerd who has no presentation skills or a foreign accent so thick you need a translator for his/her English. Having said that I love going to these things. You meet some of the most interesting people working on seriously cutting edge stuff.

Sessions below I attended. For a full list of sessions please check the ANTEM/AMEREM website.

UPDATE: Well this was a great conference with sessions from image and signal processing for medical use to how to use cell phone antennas to find people in nearby buildings. I wish I could talk to more of the participants, it is alway hard for me to find a way to break the ice with people I don’t know.

2010 ANTEM/AMEREM

14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics [ANTEM] and the American Electromagnetics Conference [AMEREM]

The Program:

TA2: ANTEM Small Tunable Antennas and New Materials; [Organized Session]Tuesday, July 6th, MacDonald
TA5: UWB Noise Radar Applications in Homeland Security [Organized Session]; Tuesday, July 6th, Laurier Room
TA7: ANTEM Arrays and Leaky Wave Antennae; Tuesday, July 6th, Renaissance
TP9: ANTEM Antennas for Space Applications [Organized Session]; Tuesday, July 6th, MacDonald
TP10: ANTEM Sensors; Tuesday, July 6th, L’Orangerie
TP13: UWB Radar Systems and Signal Processing; Tuesday, July 6th, Drawing Room
TP14: ANTEM Bioelectromagnetics; Tuesday, July 6th, MacDonald
TP16: HPEM Electromagnetic Compatibility; Tuesday, July 6th, Burgundy
WA18: ANTEM Reflectarray Antennas [Organized Session]; Wednesday, July 7th, Renaissance
WA19: ANTEM Recent Developments on Earth-Space Propagation Research Applied to Satellite Communications [Organized Session]; Wednesday, July 7th, MacDonald
WA24: HPEM Antennas; Wednesday, July 7th, Burgundy
WP25: ANTEM Antenna Theory & Design I; Wednesday, July 7th, Renaissance
WP26: ANTEM Antennas for GPS/GNSS Applications [Organized Session]; Wednesday, July 7th, MacDonald
WP28: UWB Sensing Through Walls [Organized Session]; Wednesday, July 7th, Burgundy
WP29: HPEM Threats, Coupling Effects, Protection and Standards II [Organized Session]; Wednesday, July 7th, Laurier Room
TA33: ANTEM UWB Antennas and Systems II; Thursday, July 8th, Renaissance
TA34: ANTEM Microwave Devices and Circuits; Thursday, July 8th, MacDonald
TA36: UXO, Landmine, IED Detection I; Thursday, July 8th, Burgundy
TA37: UWB Antennas, Radiation and Propagation; Thursday, July 8th, Laurier Room
TA39: ANTEM EMI/EMC; Thursday, July 8th, Renaissance
TP40: ANTEM Artificial Dielectrics & Electromagnetic Bandgap Structures [Organized Session]; Thursday, July 8th, Renaissance
TP42: ANTEM Microstrip Integrated and Active Antennas; Thursday, July 8th, L’Orangerie
TP43: UXO, Landmine, IED Detection II; Thursday, July 8th, Burgundy
TP44: UWB Target Detection, Discrimination & Imaging; Thursday, July 8th, Laurier Room
TP45: HPEM Threats, Coupling Effects, Protection and Standards I [Organized Session]; Thursday, July 8th, Drawing Room
TP46: ANTEM Microwave and Millimeter Wave Antennas; Thursday, July 8th, L’Orangerie
TP48: UWB Communication [Organized Session]; Thursday, July 8th, Laurier Room

41st Annual IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology

DWW — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:13:03 +0000

Today I took a day off work to attend the 41st Annual IEEE International Conference on Security Technology here in Ottawa. All I could afford was one day out of the 3 and that was more than enough. It is going to take a week for my brain to shrink to its normal small size. I attended the following lectures;

Morning Session

Fake Fingerprint Detection Using Sample Quality Measures
Stephen J. Elliott , Hakil Kim, Matthew R. Young, Shimon Modi – Purdue University, USA

Increasing Security with Correlation-Based Fingerprint Matching
Almudena Lindoso, Luis Entrena, Judith Liu-Jimenez,
Enrique San Millán – University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

Vascular Biometric Systems & Their Security Evaluation
Raul Sanchez-Reillo, Belen Fernandez-Saavedra, Judith Liu-Jimenez, Carmen Sanches-Avila – University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

Low Cost Multimodal Biometric Identification System Based on Hand Geometry, Palm & Fingerprint Texture
Miguel A Ferrer, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso -
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Investigation on the Selection of Filtering
Parameters & Number Of Eigenvectors
Thirimachos Bourlai, Josef Kittler, Kieron Messer – University of Surrey, UK

Arbitrary Illumination Conditions for Facial Identification
Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer -
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Robust Biometric Identification Combining Face & Speech
Enric Monte-Moreno, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy – Universitària Politècnica de Mataró (UPC), Spain

Afternoon Sessions

Bacterial Survivability & Transferability on Biometric Devices
Christy Blomeke, Stephen J. Elliott, Thomas Walter, Brandt M. Davis, James E. Tollefson – Purdue University, USA
Smart-Card-Based Face Verification System: Empirical

Spectroscopic Approach for Aliveness Detection in Biometrics Authentication
Davar Pishva – Carnegie Mellon CyLab, Japan

Quantum Wireless Secure Communication Protocol
Tien-Sheng Lin, Sy-Yen Kuo – National Taiwan University, Taiwan

(NO SHOW) Indirect Human Computer Interaction-Based Biometrics for
Intrusion Detection Systems
Roman V. Yampolskiy – University at Buffalo, USA

TacNet: Mobile Ad Hoc Secure Communications Network
Loren E. Riblett, James M. Wiseman – Sandia National Laboratories, USA

The most interesting of these were the Fake Fingerprint Detection.., Vascular Biometric Systems…, Bacterial Survivability…, and Smartcard-Based-Face…. It will probably take me a week or to to go through all the conference proceedings. Much of what they dealt with I understood, that is until they dropped into the math. I was probably the only non-PhD in the crowd and one of the few not wearing a suit. LOL. I was the also the only one without a company indicated on our big name tags. That became a bit of a topic of conversation among a few of my table mates during the lunch. The joke was that I belonged to one of those un-named organizations. LOL. And if they asked me too many questions I’d make them disappear. I guess they’d never believe that someone would willing pay out of their own pocket to go to one of these conferences, I guess they are right in this for most people, then again I’m not most people.

These conferences are by my income standards very expensive. But given the finances I’d go again next year. There is important information that can be gather at these conference even if you are not a PhD. It does not take a PhD to see the significance, relevance and interconnectedness of these papers and there broader implications both for business and national governments.