DIYbio is a group that aims to make biology tools and experiments more accessible to amateurs. Their principles are to operate safely, openly and responsibly. They seek to establish an "institution of the amateur" with access to knowledge from experts and literature, along with gentle oversight. Their goals are to have monthly meetups and establish a "TechLab" this year to advance do-it-yourself biology.
HealthMap is a system that monitors disease outbreaks around the world by processing over 20,000 news and unstructured web sites every hour using text clustering, matching, filtering and other algorithms. It provides a "heat index" alert system to identify potential disease outbreaks based on the number and recency of reports from different locations. While most alerts currently come from English language sources, the system also covers Spanish, French and Russian. It is used as a public health monitoring and response tool by various organizations and sees 500-600 daily users. Future work aims to improve algorithms, add more languages and collaborate with other health networks.
The document discusses malware trends in 2007 and over the last 12 months. It notes that 40% of all malware was new in 2007, with 87 outbreaks occurring. More recently, malware communications have increasingly used encryption, distribution has moved more to automation and fault tolerance, and detection of virtual machines has grown more sophisticated. Geographic targeting of infections has also increased.
DIYbio is a group that aims to make biology tools and experiments more accessible to amateurs. Their principles are to operate safely, openly and responsibly. They seek to establish an "institution of the amateur" with access to knowledge from experts and literature, along with gentle oversight. Their goals are to have monthly meetups and establish a "TechLab" this year to advance do-it-yourself biology.
HealthMap is a system that monitors disease outbreaks around the world by processing over 20,000 news and unstructured web sites every hour using text clustering, matching, filtering and other algorithms. It provides a "heat index" alert system to identify potential disease outbreaks based on the number and recency of reports from different locations. While most alerts currently come from English language sources, the system also covers Spanish, French and Russian. It is used as a public health monitoring and response tool by various organizations and sees 500-600 daily users. Future work aims to improve algorithms, add more languages and collaborate with other health networks.
The document discusses malware trends in 2007 and over the last 12 months. It notes that 40% of all malware was new in 2007, with 87 outbreaks occurring. More recently, malware communications have increasingly used encryption, distribution has moved more to automation and fault tolerance, and detection of virtual machines has grown more sophisticated. Geographic targeting of infections has also increased.
This document provides references and links about using SQL Server with Linux and PHP. It includes links to documentation on installing and using the Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server on Linux, an overview of SQL Server on Linux, and a quickstart guide for installing SQL Server and creating a database on Ubuntu. It also links to a Microsoft tutorial for creating PHP apps connected to SQL Server on Ubuntu.