August 21, 2003
Wired News: Net Analysis Gets Turbo Boost.
The images created by monitoring a million Internet users busily browsing look like a colorful mandala. But the point of this exercise is not to create digital art. Engineers and scientists routinely use such simulations to analyze and improve network performance and security, but those efforts have been hampered by the time and computing power required to perform large-scale simulations.
NY Times: In Frayed Networks, Common Threads.
Taken together, the blackout and the worm underscore a far-reaching challenge in managing modern technological societies: the difficulty of reaping the benefits of networks - railroad networks, airline networks, telephone networks, power networks and computer networks, among others - while minimizing their vulnerabilities.
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