Vijay Rathinam: Cherishing the small victories

Vijay Ganesh

We propose a novel approach to improving software security called C P H, which is aimed at hiding security vulnerabilities in software from attackers through the use of provably secure and obfuscated cryptographic devices [5] to harden paths in programs. By “harden” we mean that certain error-checking if-conditionals in a given program P are replaced by equivalent obfusca...

Vijay Vasudev Pillay

Molecular biology has become one of the most fascinating fields of biology in recent years. Molecular methods have been applied in various fields of biology including Medical/Health Science. In this paper, light has been shed on the application of different molecular methods (DNA analysis) in the field of Forensic Medicine.

Environmental cost of conservation victories.

In recent years, Marine Protected Areas (MPA), where fishing is severely restricted or not allowed, have become the Holy Grail of marine conservation for both nongovernmental organizations and governments. In the United States, the Papah anaumoku akea Marine National Monument in the NW Hawaiian Islands became the first large-scale reserve closed to fishing in 2006 (1). This reserve is 90% the s...

Vijay Chidambaram December 2014

Cloud computing has become mainstream. Users and companies are seeking to shift their desktop applications onto the cloud. For example, General Electric recently started using Box for content sharing and collaboration. Amazon provides pre-configured machine images so that users can run Microsoft products like SQL Server directly on Amazon EC2 instances. Development teams use software like Git a...

Pyrrhic Victories for Scientific Realism