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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH

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• IT helps industry optimize their operations. . .
• Protection from hackers: cryptographic techniques offer identity security. . .
• Consistent, survivable data for mission-critical systems. . .
  
  In emergencies, massive civilian rescue and military deployment operations involve large numbers of communication and computing devices operating in dynamically changing network environments. Successful coordination and marshalling of human resources and equipment involves collecting information from various sensors and input devices, gathering the information in survivable databases, and providing consistent information to the necessary personnel - medical, fire, law or military. Dr. Alex Shvartsman is developing an algorithmic technology to solve problems of information assurance and survivability, and dependable communication in highly dynamic (i.e., across changing network topology, processor mobility, component failure, timing variations, etc.) distributed environments. One of his newest research projects, called RAMBO, involves development of the theoretical foundations and system implementations for such distributed data services. RAMBO stands for Reconfigurable Atomic Memory for Basic Objects, and it includes the specification of the data service, the provably correct distributed algorithm implementing the service, and a formal specification of its fault-tolerance and conditional performance properties. Dr. Shvartsman and his team are now experimenting with a prototype of the system.