Nathan Rutherford

Logibot: Investigating Engagement and Development of Computational Thinking Through Virtual Reality

In this study we assess the effects of teaching fundamental programming concepts through a virtual reality (VR) block-based programming application and its impact on engagement. As a comparison study, participants played an existing desktop-based game (LightBot) and the developed VR game (LogiBot) covering similar gameplay mechanics and block- based programming.

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Problematising Characteristicness: A Biomedical Association Case Study

Keyness is a commonly used method in corpus linguistics and is assumed to identify key items that are characteristic of 1 corpus when compared to another. This paper puts this assumption to the test by comparing case study corpora in the fields of genetic, immunological and psychiatric biomedical association studies,

Misc

Using Javascript to Bypass Scalpers

I share a tale of using JavaScript to secure a flightstick during a Scalper infested restock

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TrustOre: Side-Channel Resistant Storage for SGX using Intel Hybrid CPU-FPGA

This paper presents an architecture for extending the Intel SGX trust model to include an external FPGA device providing a trusted storage service.

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PHMon: A Programmable Hardware Monitor and Its Security Use Cases

This paper presents PHMon, a Programmable Hardware Monitoring system for enforcing flexible security policies using a match-action (match-event) pipeline.

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Infrastructure for Semantic Annotation in the Genomics Domain

We describe a novel super-infrastructure for biomedical text mining which incorporates an end-to-end pipeline for the collection, annotation, storage, retrieval and analysis of biomedical and life sciences literature, combining NLP and corpus linguistics methods. The infrastructure permits extreme-scale research on the open access PubMed Central archive. It combines an updatable

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Prudent Practices for Designing Malware Experiments: Status Quo and Outlook

Rossow et al provide a critique of the scientific method when performing dynamic analysis of malware and propose a number of guidelines to address pitfalls. This post summarises these guidelines.