Alvin Virgil Tollestrup

Alvin AuYoung : Research Statement

I am a systems researcher interested in designing, building, deploying and measuring large-scale systems. My primary research interests currently involve the application of economic theory to both fundamental and emerging problems in operating and distributed systems, including, but not limited to resource allocation and congestion pricing. The arrival of large-scale open platforms such as clou...

Virgil database for rich links (1999 update)

With so many databases available for research in the Human Genome Project, it is crucial to efficiently relate information from different resources. For that purpose, we maintain Virgil, a database of rich links for data browsing, data analysis and database interconnection. Virgil current version contains more than 40 000 rich links from five major databases: SWISS-PROT, GenBank, PDB, GDB and O...

John Kagel and Alvin Roth Neuroeconomics

Doc, Wyatt, and Virgil: Prototyping Storage Jamming Defenses

This paper describes progress to date on three prototype tools for detecting storage jamming attacks. One prototype uses a replay defense; another uses logical replication, and the third can be used to determine the source and pattern of a detected attack. Three prototype jammers are used to test the effectiveness of the defenses. Initial experiments have shown that access control, encryption, ...

Biographical Sketch: Virgil Pendelton Gibney, MD, 1847–1927

This biographical sketch on Virgil Pendelton Gibney corresponds to the historic text, The Classic: Chapter XVIII. Operative Treatment in Chronic Articular Ostitis, available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-009-1165-3 .