This document discusses various topics related to applications of technology in networking, computing, and medicine. Specifically, it covers applying genetic algorithms to network routing, using active networks for quality of service, soft computing techniques for medical image analysis, web data management, dynamic resource allocation in grid computing, virtual private networks for security, peer to peer and overlay networks, intelligent patient monitoring, sensor networks, biomedical instrumentation and signal analysis, artificial neural networks for medical image data mining, software architecture analysis, multicast routing, scheduling for embedded multiprocessors, ant colony optimization for routing in mobile ad hoc networks, and text classification.