indymedia under attack, world wide

bitte nicht immer gleich sowas posten. indy ist eigentlich zur berichterstattung da. kommt ziemlich unseriös, wenn man jetzt diese seite hier besucht und sowas liest! lieber erst mal unter lists.indymedia.org --> liste imc-tech abchecken oder eine mail schreiben.

not techincal problem - attacked !
by big pic 8:35pm Sat Feb 23 '02
big.pic [at] ziplip.com

7 sites load quickly.
7 sites never load, but can if stoped from loading.
16 sites never respond at all.
thats just in the USA.
I have tried a few in Europe, and the same.

In Canada it's only 1 out of nine that work!
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write a mail
by indy.de 8:50pm Sat Feb 23 '02

write a mail to indy-tech-list. there where several times ago the same like tonight.
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sounds like good advice, but ...........
by Big Picture 9:07pm Sat Feb 23 '02
big.pic [at] ziplip.com

You said to send mail to
"indy-tech-list" but thats not a full email address.
To get the full email address
I have ti visit
http://www.indymedia.org
or click on "tech" at la.indymedia.org
to send email to tech.indymedia.org

ALL OF THOSE SITES DO NOT WORK!!!!

so I cant send email to your sugested
"indy-tech-list"

I usually start my IMC surfing with Boston, and that does not seem to be working.

I am from the Victoria IMC collective. Our server (located in Vancouver) is inaccessable. We have recieved no word from Van by email, we went down (Van& Vic IMC's) at about 12 midnight. The other sites that are down are located in Seattle. In Victoria we had a network blackout for about 24 hours a couple of weeks back while the 'pipes' were upgraded, might just be something similar.

Today 35,000 Unionists and activists marched through Victoria to oppose our provincial partys dismal conduct. It was the largest protest in 20 years.

I can't even begin to describe the mix of emotions I'm having right now.

I am from the Victoria IMC collective. Our server (located in Vancouver) is inaccessable. We have recieved no word from Van by email, we went down (Van& Vic IMC's) at about 12 midnight. The other sites that are down are located in Seattle. In Victoria we had a network blackout for about 24 hours a couple of weeks back while the 'pipes' were upgraded, might just be something similar.

Today 35,000 Unionists and activists marched through Victoria to oppose our provincial partys dismal conduct. It was the largest protest in 20 years.

I can't even begin to describe the mix of emotions I'm having right now.

Data sets with millions of records and thousands of fields are increasingly common in business, medicine, engineering, and the sciences. The problem of extracting useful information from such data sets is an important practical problem. Research on this topic focuses on key questions such as how can one build useful descriptive models which are both accurate and understandable. The fields of applied statistics, pattern recognition, machine learning, information theory, and artificial intelligence, are all of relevance to this endeavor. Probabilistic and statistical methods, in particular, are central to our research, providing both a sound theoretical basis and a practical framework for developing useful data analysis algorithms.

Research Projects
(see also the DataLab page above for more information) My research projects typically involve a balance of theory and application. Theoretical models provide a framework for principled and sound analysis of techniques and algorithms for inferring patterns from data. But data analysis is fundamentally a practical problem: the investigation of ideas and application of algorithms to real-world data sets is a very important component of our work. My research group collaborates extensively with various researchers and scientists at universities and industrial research labs, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Microsoft Research, Nokia Research, HNC Software, and others. These research collaborations provide excellent opportunities for students to work on many exciting large-scale scientific and engineering data analysis problems, combining challenging research with highly visible applications. Here are some examples of our current and recent projects:

Discovering how people use and navigate the Web. This project applies mixtures of Markov models to clustering and visualization of page-request data from several hundred thousand users at a large commercial Web site (joint work with collaborators at Microsoft Research). Our group at UCI is also a participant member of the new California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology.

Probabilistic modeling of large transaction data sets An investigation of maximum entropy and other probabilistic modeling techniques to the problem of generating approximate answers to interactive queries in a model-based manner for large transaction data sets (joint work with Nokia Research).

Segmental semi-Markov models for waveform and signal modeling Both change-point detection and probabilistic pattern-finding are investigated and applied to a real-world problem in semiconductor manufacturing (joint work with KLA-Tencor and LAM Research). This work is funded by NIST Advanced Technology Program award with Berkeley, Stanford, Michigan and various industry partners. Earlier research along these lines includes work with JPL on modeling of time-series engineering data from the Space Shuttle and other spacecraft.

Automated analysis of biomedical data Joint work with Professor Christine McLaren, UCI Department of Epidemiology, on Gaussian mixtures and hierarchical models for screening, diagnosis, and change detection for various blood-related (anemia) medical disorders.

Modelling spatial patterns and trajectories in the Earth's upper-atmosphere (joint work with JPL and the Atmospheric Sciences Department at UCLA). Funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Gene expression data analysis. We are just starting to get involved in this very interesting area and are participants in the new UC Irvine Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics.

"Turbo-decoding" of error-correcting codes using belief networks/graphical models, jointly with Bob McEliece's group at Caltech, funded by AFOSR, and a collaboration with Professor David Eppstein, UCI.

Automated image analysis for diagnosis of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Joint work with the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at UCI. Partially funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health.

Image models for clouds: developing robust spatial image models and fast algorithms for detecting clouds in satellite remote-sensing imagery, funded by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Predicting drug activity from structural descriptions of molecules: predictive modeling and clustering of very large structure-activity data sets. Funded by Smith-Kline Beecham Research.



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And here's some images on two fairly recent projects that I am quite proud of!


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Research Group
Igor Cadez
Scott Gaffney
Xianping Ge
Dimitry Pavlov
Dasha Chudova
Sergey Kirshner
Sridevi Parise
Naval Verma
Siavosh Bahrami (NSF-REU-supported undergraduate researcher)
Jason Thornton (NSF-REU-supported undergraduate researcher)


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Teaching: Courses Offered
Probabilistic Learning: Theory and Algorithms, ICS 274
Last taught in Winter quarter 2001, next offered in Spring 2002.

Data Mining: ICS 278
Last offered in Fall 99, next offered in Fall 2001.

Project in Artificial Intelligence, ICS 175A
Last taught (by me) in Spring quarter 2001 when students worked on building a face-recognition system. Next offered in Spring 2002.

Advanced Topics in Data Mining
Taught in Spring 2001.

Applied Probability for Computer Scientists
A new upper-division mathematics course for ICS students: last taught in Spring quarter 2000.

Probabilistic Models for Time Series and Sequences
A new graduate course (ICS 280): last offered in Spring 00.

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
ICS Undergraduate Course, ICS 171:
ICS Graduate Course, ICS 270A.



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