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“Cyber attacks are becoming more frequent and much more sophisticated,” says Dr. Liam M. Mayron, Assistant Professor in the Harris Institute for Assured Information and the Department of Computer Sciences at Florida Tech. “As a result, cybersecurity specialists are in high demand. By bringing the information assurance and cybersecurity degree and certificate online, Florida Tech is opening the door for qualified professionals across the country to expand their knowledge and take advantage of these opportunities.”

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Over the next few weeks Mayron.net will be completely remodeled with new information relevant to my research and teaching. Stay tuned!

From the conference: “The aim of IEEE CogSIMA 2011 is to provide a venue for presenting scientific results of studies of complex, heterogeneous dynamical systems that include humans, physical systems and computer agents whose behaviors depend on situation”.

My colleagues and I had two publications accepted (one poster and one paper) and are looking forward to presenting. The paper, “A perceptually-relevant model-based cyber threat prediction method for enterprise mission assurance” approaches mission assurance from a semantic perspective. The poster, “Cognitive cyber situational awareness using virtual worlds”, investigates how virtual worlds can be used in cyber security applications.

Here are the citations:

Tahia Infantes Morris, Liam M. Mayron, Wayne B. Smith, Margaret Knepper, and Reg Ita, “A perceptually-relevant model-based cyber threat prediction method for enterprise mission assurance”, Cognitive Methods in Situation Management (CogSIMA 2011), February 22-24 2011, Miami Beach, Florida.

Mary C. Kay Michel, Nathan P. Helmick, Liam M. Mayron, “Cognitive cyber situational awareness using virtual worlds”, Cognitive Methods in Situation Management (CogSIMA 2011), February 22-24 2011, Miami Beach, Florida.

2010

• The Pineapple Thief — “Someone Here is Missing”
• Alan Parsons — “Eye 2 Eye Live in Madrid”
• Spock’s Beard — “X”
• Glass Hammer — “If”
• Orphaned Land — “The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR”

The list for 2010 is pretty short — here are some great releases from 2009 that I didn’t discover until recently.

2009 (part 2)

• Devin Townsend — “Addicted”
• Devin Townsend — “Ki”
• Abigail’s Ghost — “d_letion”
• The Pineapple Thief — “3000 Days”
• Insomnium — “Across the Dark”
• Amorphis — “Skyfrogger”
• Dark Age — “Acedia”