Clinton “Cosmo” Mielke - “War in the Shadows”; Mark Obrenovich
January 14th, 2008[Back to Meetings]
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Clinton "Cosmo" Mielke, University of Arizona undergraduate - "War in the Shadows"; Mark Obrenovich
Date and Time: Friday, January 18, 2008 from 4:00pm until 6:00pm MST
Location: Tubac Room, 4th Floor, Student Union Memorial Center, 1303 E. University Blvd., Tucson, AZ, USA 85721-0017 | Google Maps
Description: Hour 1: Cosmo Mielke is a University of Arizona undergraduate. He will provide a look at the landscape of cybercrime today and implications for the future of information security:
I will begin by discussing my work with the Shadowserver Foundation, a nonprofit group of watchdog information security professionals dedicated to the investigation of cybercrime in the information age. After giving insight into the world of ubiquitous malware, botnet attacks, and identity theft, I will motivate further consideration to cyberterror and information manipulation.
I will close with thoughts of the future, in regards to the role of information security in the virtual age, including consideration given to citizens privacy, trust networks, and global security.
Hour 2: Mark Obrenovich is a prominent researcher in the field of advanced glycation endproducts. He will discuss his research.
Meeting Notes
2nd Hour:
Ascorbic Acid
Jeanne Calment - lived to 122 years
Cataracts
- major cause of visible disability
- big problem for poor countries
Millard's Reaction
- important for agronomy, food science, medical science
- cartilage, white turns brown, like a slow cooker
AGEs
- pigmentation increases in eyes
- possibilities to be found in fish
- the lens is never turned over
- diabetes live shorter lives
Lens protects itself
Ascorbic Acid
- low in nocturnal animals
- high in diurnal animals
- protection against UV rays
Rodents take up less vitamin C than humans
By sucking air and eating sugar, we turn brown
- accelerated in diabetics