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| Srijith K. Nair is a senior security researcher at the Security Futures Practice of BT Innovate & Design, where he looks at security and privacy issues associated with cloud computing and system virtualisation. He has a PhD in computer science from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. There, his work on distributed policy enforcement was supervised by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Bruno Crispo. His other research interests include applied cryptography and general security and networking issues. He haspublished papers in several IEEE and ACM conference proceedings volumes. Srijith received his MS degree in computer science from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2002, where he focused on the area of TCP congestion algorithms. He received his BTech (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) degree (with first class honors) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2000, under the Singapore Airlines-Neptune Orient Lines (SIA/NOL) undergraduate scholarship program. Before starting on his PhD quest, Srijith worked as a research and development engineer at JVC Asia Laboratories of Singapore (JALS) for a year, looking into digital video broadcasting multimedia home platform (DVB-MHP) issues. Born and having spent most of his childhood in the beautiful tropical state of Kerala, India, Srijith finds the summer heat and winter snow of Europe amazing, and considers Europe a great travel paradise. Srijith is member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the ElectronicFrontier Foundation (EFF). |
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The annotated Turing: a guided tour through Alan Turing’s historic paper on computability and the Turing machine Petzold C., Wiley Publishing, 2008. 384 pp. Type: Book (9780470229057), Reviews: (2 of 2)
This book is an attempt by Petzold to make Turing’s seminal paper, “On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem” [1], accessible to ordinary readers; it has indeed turned out to ...
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May 15 2009 |
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The wealth of networks: how social production transforms markets and freedom Benkler Y., YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, New Haven, CT, 2006. 528 pp. Type: Book (9780300110562)
The networked world, embodied by the Internet, is powering a new phase in the way we look at property, wealth, copyright, and production as a whole. This is the subject Benkler’s authoritative and exhaustive work addresses.
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Sep 17 2007 |
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Backup & recovery Preston W., O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2006. 760 pp. Type: Book (9780596102463)
When was the last time you did a backup of your personal files? Was it a painful process that took a lot of your time? If so, consider the amount of time and effort it would take to backup several servers, with a lot more critical data...
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Jul 27 2007 |
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Play money: or, how I quit my day job and made millions trading virtual loot Dibbell J., Basic Books, Inc., New York, NY, 2006. 321 pp. Type: Book (9780465015351)
Have you ever wondered about the virtual worlds that seem to be popping up all around us? Completely invisible to the ignorant, yet omnipresent to the insiders, virtual worlds are no longer a figment of science fiction. There are many ...
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Apr 27 2007 |
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The long tail Anderson C., Hyperion, New York, NY, 2006. 238 pp. Type: Book (9781401302375)
“A long tail is just culture unfiltered by economic scarcity.” If I were to pick one sentence that captures the essence of Chris Anderson’s book, this would be it. Anderson asserts in this book that the ec...
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Sep 19 2006 |
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The wisdom of crowds Surowiecki J., Anchor, New York, NY, 2005. 336 pp. Type: Book (9780385721707), Reviews: (2 of 2)
Surowiecki’s now-famous book examines one central question: Is a group “smarter than the smartest people in [it]?” If Surowiecki’s claim is to be believed, the crowd is indeed sma...
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Jul 7 2006 |
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The art of computer virus research and defense Szor P., Addison-Wesley Professional, Boston, MA, 2005. 744 pp. Type: Book (9780321304544), Reviews: (2 of 2)
When someone as knowledgeable about computer viruses as Symantec’s chief antivirus researcher writes a book on the subject, it is expected that the resulting work will be authoritative; Peter Szor’s work is that and...
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Jun 21 2006 |
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The success of open source Weber S., Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005. 320 pp. Type: Book (9780674018587)
Weber’s book is sure to become, if it is not already, a monumental work on the open source (OS) movement, examining its growth from the perspectives of economics, sociology, and political science, among others. Prospectiv...
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Dec 21 2005 |
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Secrets and lies: digital security in a networked world Schneier B., John Wiley & Sons, 2004. Type: Book (9780471453802)
“Security is a process, not a product.” If one sentence could sum up the content of this book, this would be it. Bruce Schneier, the author of the popular book Applied cryptography [1], takes a U-turn in his ...
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Feb 2 2005 |
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