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Dissertation Could Be Security Threat

39 points by iamelgringo 18y ago

mhb 18y ago
GMU's a decent school. So the PhD candidate and his research partner/associate professor didn't perceive that this research would have any broader implications? Hello.
- paddy_m 18y ago
  I got an econ degree from Mason (mini Chicago). The econ department was fun, a little ivory tower but fun. I started out as CS and found the department unimpressive, maybe I was just young and not into it, but I didn't meet many hackers there. Most of the student body was unimpressive. The school is very much wrapped up in the DC/Northern VA environment. Its hard to explain, but I'll try, the really good students dreamed of working for Booz Allen. That's probably the best I can do.
  - grosales 18y ago
    The ecoomics department is probably the best dpt that GMU has. I also went there, but I studied CS. I was a fairly decent student and I met other good students. If you would have stuck and taken the advanced CS classes like AI, Computer Vision, Compiler languages or Operative systems you might have gotten a glimpse of the hackers at GMU. I don't consider myself a hacker, but I do love coding. I never even dreamed of working for Booz Allen, but I don't see anything wrong with that idea either. There were some hackers there though, like the guy who coded and came up with Plasma Pong (it was later shutdown by Atari I think), and I think another guy who wrote RoadBlocks, the math department also had some really smart people. Apart from some Associate professors I think that the CS department has some really outstanding faculty like Sean Luke, Elizabeth White, Zoran Duric and I also heard professor Hamburger was awesome before he retired, I learned a lot from them (actually I never would have learned of hacker news if it wasn't for Professor Luke).
moss 18y ago
Note that the article is from 2003.
Anon84 18y ago
I thought of doing something similar for the global financial system. I'm just not sure how reliable the information would be, or how to go about getting it.
ortelius 18y ago
Funny this is on HN after 5 years. Sean runs Fortius One these days. http://www.fortiusone.com/ http://www.fortiusone.com/ ... still disrupting.
wmf 18y ago
In the background, he plays the Beastie Boys. Sabotage?

39 points by iamelgringo 18y ago

mhb 18y ago

GMU's a decent school. So the PhD candidate and his research partner/associate professor didn't perceive that this research would have any broader implications? Hello.

paddy_m 18y ago
I got an econ degree from Mason (mini Chicago). The econ department was fun, a little ivory tower but fun. I started out as CS and found the department unimpressive, maybe I was just young and not into it, but I didn't meet many hackers there. Most of the student body was unimpressive. The school is very much wrapped up in the DC/Northern VA environment. Its hard to explain, but I'll try, the really good students dreamed of working for Booz Allen. That's probably the best I can do.
- grosales 18y ago
  The ecoomics department is probably the best dpt that GMU has. I also went there, but I studied CS. I was a fairly decent student and I met other good students. If you would have stuck and taken the advanced CS classes like AI, Computer Vision, Compiler languages or Operative systems you might have gotten a glimpse of the hackers at GMU. I don't consider myself a hacker, but I do love coding. I never even dreamed of working for Booz Allen, but I don't see anything wrong with that idea either. There were some hackers there though, like the guy who coded and came up with Plasma Pong (it was later shutdown by Atari I think), and I think another guy who wrote RoadBlocks, the math department also had some really smart people. Apart from some Associate professors I think that the CS department has some really outstanding faculty like Sean Luke, Elizabeth White, Zoran Duric and I also heard professor Hamburger was awesome before he retired, I learned a lot from them (actually I never would have learned of hacker news if it wasn't for Professor Luke).

moss 18y ago

Note that the article is from 2003.

Anon84 18y ago

I thought of doing something similar for the global financial system. I'm just not sure how reliable the information would be, or how to go about getting it.

ortelius 18y ago

Funny this is on HN after 5 years. Sean runs Fortius One these days. http://www.fortiusone.com/ http://www.fortiusone.com/ ... still disrupting.

wmf 18y ago

In the background, he plays the Beastie Boys. Sabotage?