Vital Systems Security

I am happy to introduce Amelia Moore to this blog. Amelia is a doctoral student at UC Berkeley. Currently, she is conducting fieldwork in the Bahamas (and the U.S.). Her terrific research project focuses on biocomplexity and resonates with many other projects conducted by our little group over here at the vss blog. Amelia recently sent me a short description of her research project. To learn more, read on! Read the rest of this entry »

All: I am happy to make another introduction to our little group. Benjamin Hickler is a student in the joint Med. Anthro program at UCSF. He comes to us via Paul’s seminar, and is now engaged in fieldwork. He recently sent me a description of his project — of very great interest — that I thought I would be great to share and discuss. Read on to see it!

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One of the things I would like to do more on the blog is to introduce the work of various people we know and run into who are doing work related to vital systems security. I wanted to start by introducing a PhD student I met in Finland last year named Antti Silvast. Antti, who has a background in engineering, is working on the question of electric system reliability, particularly against the background of deregulation and increasing concerns about critical infrastructure protection. As will be immediately evident, Antti’s work is very much connected to concerns that have been central to the collaboration.

Read on for a description of Antti’s work that he sent along.

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