DIX dynamics

INFORMATION PROCESSING, CONTEXT and PRIVACY Alan Dix

This paper is about an old concept, data processing, but one that has taken on new meaning with the increasing complexity and interconnection of systems and the burgeoning of expert systems and connectionism. Classical information theory has been found to be inadequate even in the relatively formal context of security, but this inadequacy is intensified when we consider more human issues like p...

Dhaval Vyas – Alan Dix – Anton Nijholt

Frameworks such as activity theory, distributed cognition and structuration theory, amongst others, have shown that detailed study of contextual settings where users work (or live) could help the design of interactive systems. However, these frameworks do not adequately focus on accounting for the materiality (and embodiment) of the contextual settings. Within the IST-EU funded AMIDA project (A...

On Viewing a Portrait by Otto Dix.

T5 Offloaded iSCSI with T10-DIX

Executive Summary There are many sources of data integrity errors within storage networks and devices. The T10 (SCSI) standards committee developed the Data Integrity Field specification (DIF) to provide protection within storage disks by extending the size of disk sectors by 8 bytes, which contain protection information, including a 16 bit CRC. This integrity metadata enables corrupted write a...

Swine Influenza A Outbreak, Fort Dix, New Jersey, 1976

In early 1976, the novel A/New Jersey/76 (Hsw1N1) influenza virus caused severe respiratory illness in 13 soldiers with 1 death at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Since A/New Jersey was similar to the 1918-1919 pandemic virus, rapid outbreak assessment and enhanced surveillance were initiated. A/New Jersey virus was detected only from January 19 to February 9 and did not spread beyond Fort Dix. A/Victori...