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Title: Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitoring (semester?), IPRO 331: Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitoring IPRO 331 Project Plan F04
Creator: Adekeye, Adeseye, Bookseller, Sangeeta, Dexter, Brogran, Kieltyka, Jude, Nishizuka, Chad, Rathod, Daisy, Shah, Shivani, Topgi, Anupama, Young, Jon
Date: 2004-12, 2004-12
Description: The overall objective of this IPRO project is to help in the development of a non-invasive blood glucose monitoring technique for patients...
Show moreThe overall objective of this IPRO project is to help in the development of a non-invasive blood glucose monitoring technique for patients afflicted with diabetes.
Deliverables for IPRO 331: Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitoring for the Fall 2004 semester
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Title: Friendly Forces Finder (Semester Unknown) EnPRO 350: FriendlyForcesFinderEnPRO350FinalReportSp10
Creator: Algie, Teague, Braband, Jim, Clovsky, Aaron, Hoylman, Phillip, Hutchins, Sarah, Kawa, Konrad, Marks, Matthew, Miranda, Jose, Patel, Purvag, Stogner, Jason
Date: 2010, 2010-05
Description: GPS modules and tracking devices have influenced many advances in modern technology. The data GPS provides has replaced the map and compass,...
Show moreGPS modules and tracking devices have influenced many advances in modern technology. The data GPS provides has replaced the map and compass, and can be crucial in many situations. Its current platform for use however requires the user to utilize a handheld device and direct his/her frame of view to a screen. In many situations there is a need to have eyes on and full awareness of surroundings, something that simply can't be done while holding and viewing a handheld device. To solve this dilemma, team Smart Specs has integrated ideas of GPS, heads-up displays, and datalink technology to form a design that will give the user full hands free capabilities. This device, worn like glasses, allows the user to track objects and even designate objects to be tracked, which are all shown through heads-up display.
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Title: Design of a Sustainable New City in China (Semester Unknown) IPRO 316: Design of a Sustainable New City in Chinca IPRO 316 Poster Sp08
Creator: Saracino, Tony, Durra, David, Kleps, Andrew, Szanyi, Ryan
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: A. Create a program for a sustainable city that incorporates all sustainable design practices and is affordable and desirable to live in.
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Show moreA. Create a program for a sustainable city that incorporates all sustainable design practices and is affordable and desirable to live in.
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Title: Combating Underage Drinking and Driving (Semester Unknown) IPRO 351: CombatingUnderageDrinkingandDrivingIPRO351BrochureF10
Creator: Hajakian, Melene, Cartabiano, Vincent, Abbasi, Rawan, Salem, Stephanie, Macon, Briana, Graham, Stuart, Kurenty, Edinam, Mazur, Mikayla, Menezes, Sandra, Nealy, Kimberly, Svaldi, Jared, Szalko, Alex, Wong, Claire
Date: 2010, 2010-12
Description: A. The team purpose is to combat underage drinking and driving B. Application/Testing Design:  To develop i-phone applications New/Existing...
Show moreA. The team purpose is to combat underage drinking and driving B. Application/Testing Design:  To develop i-phone applications New/Existing Tech:  Develop a comparable device that will be competitive in the market Behavior and Survey:  Gather data to find out what people want (validation) or would be interested in --- our target market Finance/Marketing:  Compile details/info to create a business plan – opportunity assessment
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Title: Sustainable Entrepreneurial Economic Development (Summer 2011) IPRO 350: Sustainable Entrepreneurial Economic Development IPRO350 Summer2011 Midterm Presentation
Creator: Arzu, Ricardo, Avant, Denzel, Bogoevski, Aleksander, Caven, Daniel, Daniel, Andy, Fisher, Courtney, Lavania, Bharat, Marcha, Emmanuel, Mouddou, Khadija, Nunes, Guilherme, Popa, Ana, Quach, Dot, Scorzo, Anthony, Tadros, Nader
Date: 2011, 2011-07
Description: Coal city is a small town in Illinois that has partnered with IIT. Its current population is 5,152 people and has been steadily increasing....
Show moreCoal city is a small town in Illinois that has partnered with IIT. Its current population is 5,152 people and has been steadily increasing. Coal City is located just south of I-80 along the I- 55 corridor and less than an hour from Bolingbrook and Oakbrook. Along the northern border of Coal city, are adjoining lakes and abandoned coal mines. Small town atmosphere is conducive to community interaction and pride. The purpose of this project was to provide the framework for creating the most feasible and sustainable economic development model for the village of Coal City using generalized approaches that could be emulated in other small towns. the objectives that the team has set are: Gather information that will lead to the creation of an effective plan. Study models and components of Sustainable Economic Development focusing on small towns and rural areas. Study the demographics, human systems, existing industry systems, bio-physical systems, government and social policy systems and the existing industry clusters. Understand community, local, and regional assets and talent pool, town vision, mission and economic development plans.
Sponsorship: NA
Project Plan for IPRO 350: Sustainable Entrepreneurial Economic Development for the Summer 2011 semester
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Title: Zero Energy Lab (Semester Unknown) IPRO 337: Zero Energy Lab IPRO 337 Project Plan Sp08
Creator: Mayers, Chris, Sibley, Jonathan, Irishfrazin, Max, Wachniak, Anthony, Sirotzke, Daniel, Mathus, Daniel, Stachowiak, Kyle, Smith, Suni, Sadasivuni, Sandeep, Rojas, Brian, Gambrell, Jennifer, Bo, Loren, Palomo, Kaye, Patel, Kunal
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: The IPRO 337 team’s objectives for this semester is to make further progress in updating the top floor of Machinery Hall into a lab for future...
Show moreThe IPRO 337 team’s objectives for this semester is to make further progress in updating the top floor of Machinery Hall into a lab for future energy and lighting technology research and for the space itself to be able to be as sustainable as possible throughout research this semester. Since the end goal is a rather ambitious one, a more realistic goal is to have an energy plan for following IPRO’s to work off of and to have the space cleared so that the developed plan can be tested. The team hopes to generate willingness in its members to establish an environment conducive to team-oriented goals, as outlined in the objectives below. Successful completion of the goals presented here will require each participant to gain useful experience and knowledge regarding teamwork, inter-professional skills and specifically sustainable energy systems. For this fall semester, the team has set forth the following objectives:  Research office utilities that consume low amounts of energy, and investigate how to improve the efficiency of current utilities.  Research and test various energy efficient lighting solutions.  Research environmentally friendly floor, wall, and ceiling finishes along with necessary office furniture.  Develop a website to display the development progress of the Zero-Energy Lab and provide information regarding “green technology”  Clean and prepare the 6,000 ft2 space for future inhabitants.  Using the research, develop a program proposal for the Zero-Energy Lab.
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Title: Improving Abilityy to verify Audio CAPTCHA's (Semester Unknwon) IPRO 316: ImprovingAbilityToVerifyAudioIPRO316FinalReportSp10
Creator: Klansky, Gabriel, Schneider, Erick, Kaim, Maxwell, Ciarkowski, Adam, Fabian, Michael, Wallace, Sean, Kipp, Daniel
Date: 2010, 2010-05
Description: CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) are used to prevent automated access to sensitive...
Show moreCAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) are used to prevent automated access to sensitive information online. In its usual format, users are presented with distorted text and asked to enter the displayed text in an answer box. If successful, humans, but not computers, will be able to interpret the distorted text. Another format of CAPTCHAs asks users to identify audio information (usually a string of digits or phrase of words) that has been distorted or placed against a background of noise (\white" noise, reversed speech, etc.). Users type the words they hear into an answer box. The audio format is intended to be accessible to blind and low-vision users who cannot use the visually-based format. Unfortunately, audio CAPTCHAs are di cult for humans to use (Bigham and Cavendar 2009) but relatively easy for computers to solve (Tam et al. 2008), which is exactly the opposite outcome desired. To take two extreme examples, in one recent study (Sauer et al. 2008), users were able to solve only 46 percent of audio CAPTCHAs, while in another study (Burztein and Bethard 2009), a computer program was able to break 75 percent of audio CAPTCHAs. At issue is whether audio CAPTCHAs can be designed so that users can easily solve them but computers cannot. Yan and Ahmad (2008) propose testing di erent kinds of background noise to determine which is the most e ective at blocking computers but admitting humans. To this end, Tam et al. (2008) suggest using other human voices as background noise (to thwart computers) but familiar phrases as the string to decode (to aid listeners). The current project will focus on selecting from a set of potential solutions to test.
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Title: Swimming Aid for Visually Impaired Swimmers (Semester Unknown) IPRO 310: Swimming%20Aid%20for%20Visually%20Impaired%20Swimmers%20IPRO%20310%20Project%20Plan%20F08_redacted
Creator: Chiu, Daniel, Gupta, Vaibhav, Teves, Jan, Turrentine, Lorne, Yew, Hsuen, Soleja, Sikander, Sood, Arun, Warns, Jodi, Padwal, Neha, Reed, Lisa, Sajjad, Sunny
Date: 2008, 2008-12
Description: The primary focus of this project is to help blind and visually impaired individuals to swim independently. The team will be divided into two...
Show moreThe primary focus of this project is to help blind and visually impaired individuals to swim independently. The team will be divided into two sub-teams. One sub-team will create a passive device, which uses a mechanical device to provide tactile feedback to the swimmer. The other sub-team will create an active device which uses special electronic devices such as a sonar based device to help guide the swimmer. These devices will be repeatedly tested and updated to help increase the independence of blind and visually impaired individuals exercise and further improve their quality of life.
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Title: STUDY OF VITREOSCILLA HEMOGLOBIN VARIANTS PRODUCED BY RANDOM MUTAGENESIS
Creator: Lin, Xiaodan
Date: 2015, 2015-05
Description: This study is focused on comparing the wild type and mutated versions of the Vitreoscilla hemoglobin gene (vgb). The purpose of this focus is...
Show moreThis study is focused on comparing the wild type and mutated versions of the Vitreoscilla hemoglobin gene (vgb). The purpose of this focus is to find out whether any of the vgb mutations provides an advantage regarding cell growth rate, as well as on the expression level of Vitreoscilla hemoglobin protein (VHb). A negative control Escherichia coli DH5α (E. coli DH5α) bearing no pUC plasmid, as well as seven E. coli DH5α strains bearing different pUC-based plasmids were tested in the experiments. Among these were one vector-only negative control (pUC18), one wild type positive control (pUC8:16, which carries wild type vgb) and five different types of pUC-bearing vgb mutants (pUC-vgb M1, M2, M3, M4 and pUC18-vgb M3). In order to compare cell growth rate among these strains, the growth rate assay was carried out under three different conditions: (1) Luria-Bertani (LB) medium, aerobic conditions; (2) Terrific Broth (TB) medium, low oxygen conditions; and (3) TB medium, microaerobic conditions. In addition, the carbon monoxide (CO) difference spectra assay was conducted to measure functioning VHb protein expression levels for the strains grown under aerobic conditions. In contrast to the results obtained by our Australian collaborators, our growth rate assay and CO difference spectra assay showed no growth advantage or higher expression level of functioning VHb protein due to any of the vgb mutations. For the further study of the vgb mutants, four different recombinant plasmids were constructed by cloning three types of mutated vgb (vgb M1, M3 and M4) as well as wild type vgb into the prokaryotic expression vector pUC8 with ampicillin (Amp) resistance. After being transformed into competent E. coli DH5α cell, these resulting xii strains, as well as the plasmid-free negative control (E. coli DH5α) and vector-only negative control (E. coli DH5α bearing plasmid pUC8) were tested by the CO difference spectra assay. Except strain E. coli DH5α [pUC8-vgb M3], which showed a slight increase in the VHb expression level, the strain bearing other mutated vgbs did not demonstrate any elevation in VHb protein expression level, compared to the positive control containing wild type vgb.
M.S. in Biology, May 2015
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Title: HawkTour (semester 2 of unknown), IPRO 305: HawkTour IPRO 305 Project Plan F04
Creator: Brozyna, Robert, Cais, Christopher, Collard, Aaron, Holley, Jonathan, Ilea, Nicu, Lee, Nicholas, Meleppuram, Santhosh, Sepcot, Michael, Sobczyk, Kamil, Wolkenfeld, Daniel, Yap, Yen, Chung, Wonsuk, Kim, Andrew, Collver, Aaron, Oyuela, Henry
Date: 2005-01, 2004-12
Description: The team will be focusing on the challenge of integrating Pervasive Computing into a specific aspect of the IIT campus. The overall vision of...
Show moreThe team will be focusing on the challenge of integrating Pervasive Computing into a specific aspect of the IIT campus. The overall vision of the IPRO 305 team is to continue efforts to develop an application called HawkTour – a virtual Illinois Institute of Technology tour guide. HawkTour will provide a completely new approach to the campus tour at IIT.
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Title: Northern Illinois Hockey League (Semester Unknown) IPRO 308: NIHLIPRO308Poster1F09
Creator: Lucchesi, Kristin, Barksdale, Dustin, Hays, Julian, Bartus, Kryzystof, Perkins, William, Savage, Christopher, Scheer, Colin, Semenov, Vladimir, Vidutis, Mantas
Date: 2009, 2009-12
Description: We will make a prototype for the Northern Illinois Hockey league website. We want to develop web-based scheduling and scoring applications...
Show moreWe will make a prototype for the Northern Illinois Hockey league website. We want to develop web-based scheduling and scoring applications that can support their annual operations.
Sponsorship: Northern Illinois Hockey League
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Title: Design of Kranti Home and School (Mumbai) for Sexually Trafficked Girls (sequence unknown), IPRO 343 - Project Plan
Creator: Arastu, Insiyah, Choe, Jonathan, Davis, Elena, Enriquez, Sheena, Kimball, Mark, Kleehammer, Christopher, Klimek, Joseph, Marcheva, Boryana, Martin, Amy, Patel, Hamida, Patel, Avni, Semerdjiev, Ivo, Sturrup, Terez
Date: 2009-12
Description: To develop and design a home and center of education for girls who have been previously trafficked.
Project Plan for IPRO 343: Design of Kranti...
Show moreTo develop and design a home and center of education for girls who have been previously trafficked.
Project Plan for IPRO 343: Design of Kranti Home and School (Mumbai) for Sexually Trafficked Girls for the fall 2009 semester
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Title: FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF POTENTIAL PHOSPHORYLATION SITES IN BAXΔ2 UNIQUE OLIGOPEPTIDE
Creator: Tsai, Yu-tseng
Date: 2014, 2014-07
Description: The tumor suppressor gene, Bax, plays a critical role in tumor progression through regulating cell apoptosis. Mutations on the BAX gene often...
Show moreThe tumor suppressor gene, Bax, plays a critical role in tumor progression through regulating cell apoptosis. Mutations on the BAX gene often result in silencing its expression and the loss of pro-death ability. However, there is a unique Bax isoform, BaxΔ2, recently discovered in these Bax mutated cancer cells. BaxΔ2 isoform shows higher pro-apoptotic activity than Baxα. Unlike the parental Baxα, BaxΔ2 does not target mitochondria and forms aggregates in cytosol. There is a unique 10-amino-acid peptide in the N-terminus of BaxΔ2 protein possible function as a special signal. Two serines in this region are predicted as potential phosphorylation sites for regulation of the protein activity. To test this hypothesis, we mutated both serines (SS) into non-phosphorylatable alanines (AA) by site-directed mutagenesis approach. Both BaxΔ2 wild type (BaxΔ2-SS) and mutants (BaxΔ2-AA) were tagged with GFP, which allows us to monitor the protein expression and cellular localization in live cells. Here, we found that the distribution patterns of BaxΔ2-AA and BaxΔ2-SS were similar and appeared as aggregates in cytosol. BaxΔ2-AA mutant also possessed the similar pro-apoptotic activity with BaxΔ2-SS wild type. These results suggested that the two serines in BaxΔ2 unique oligopeptide might not play a critical role in BaxΔ2 localization and pro-death activity under the current ectopic expression conditions. Further study is needed to have better understanding of phosphorylation in contribution to unique behavior of BaxΔ2.
M.S. in Biology, July 2014
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Title: Pilot Study in Mexico for KlarAqua Water Filtration System and Business Planning (semester?), IPRO 355: KlarAqua IPRO 355 Final Report F06
Creator: Grimmer, Laura, Gilliam, Amanda, Lemley, Shea, Llyod, Brandon, Ikonomov, Petre, Staley, Samantha, Hadou, Kit, Topgi, Snehalata
Date: 2006-12, 2006-12
Description: The main objective of the IPRO is to improve health conditions in low-income societies, specifically Mexico, by the design and implementation...
Show moreThe main objective of the IPRO is to improve health conditions in low-income societies, specifically Mexico, by the design and implementation of a water filtration system. In previous semesters, the filtration system has been designed and tested. A pilot study will be conducted in Mexico in the coming months. The main objective for this semester is to develop a business plan for the IPRO in order to implement the broad distribution of the water filter.
Deliverables for IPRO 355: Pilot Study in Mexico for KlarAqua Water Filtration System and Business Planning for the Fall 2006 semester
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Title: Information Technology Solutions for Seamless Networks (semester?), IPRO 350
Creator: Damle, Prajakta, Pop, Andrei, Jones, Chris, Hartung, Marina, Nixon, Jeremy, Powell, Karina, Fawole, Ayomide
Date: 2006-05, 2006-05
Description: Merging breakthrough telecommunication opportunities, Wildfire Wireless aims to provide users aboard commuter trains the ability to take full...
Show moreMerging breakthrough telecommunication opportunities, Wildfire Wireless aims to provide users aboard commuter trains the ability to take full advantage of their commute by providing access to a cost-effective hardware/software solution allowing them access to real-time, seamless wireless communication channels.
Deliverables for IPRO 350: Information Technology Solutions for Seamless Networks for the spring 2006 semestr
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Title: The utilization of sunflower stalks in paper manufacture
Creator: Zavertnik, J.
Date: 2009, 1914
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/utilizationofsun00zave
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Power Measurement for Road Bicycles: Toward a Universal Solution (Semester Unknown) IPRO 324: PowerMeasurementForRoadBicyclesIPRO324BrochureF09
Creator: Adrianzen, Luis, Allen, Ross, Antonio, Chris, Callan, Mark, Claxton, Sara, Diesse, Patrick, Gaylord, Matthew, Herbert, Greg, Shaffer, Dan, Wegrzyn, Celeste
Date: 2009, 2009-12
Description: The goal of the IPRO is to try to find an inexpensive, but accurate way of measuring the power output of a rider on a bicycle. Problems with...
Show moreThe goal of the IPRO is to try to find an inexpensive, but accurate way of measuring the power output of a rider on a bicycle. Problems with systems currently available are: some products are not compatible with all bike systems causing the need to purchase new parts, the cost of the available products is expensive, and some of the available IPRO 324 Project Plan Page: 4 measuring systems are not very accurate. In order to achieve our goals and to improve the current technology, our IPRO is divided into two groups: the mechanical and the electrical team.
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Title: POINT CLOUD FUSION BETWEEEN AERIAL AND VEHICLE LIDAR
Creator: Guangyao, Ma
Date: 2015, 2015-05
Description: Because of the increasing requirement of precision in region of 3-D map, we began to use LiDAR to establish a more accurate map. There still...
Show moreBecause of the increasing requirement of precision in region of 3-D map, we began to use LiDAR to establish a more accurate map. There still exist some problems although we have already made a great progress in this area. One of them, which I tried to process during my thesis study, is that we have two points source - Aerial LiDAR Data( Points gotten by Airplane ) and Vehicle LiDAR Data( Points gotten by Vehicle ) - while both of them have a different density and cannot be merged well. This process - Fusion-is kindly similar to registration, the difference is that the points we would like to merge are generated from different devices and have only few points pairs in the same region. For example, the Aerial LiDAR data has a higher points density in the roofs and ground, but lower in the walls. In the meanwhile, the Vehicle LiDAR data has a lot of points in the walls and ground region. It is beneficial to minimize the difference between these two point sets since the process is necessary for modeling, registration and so on. Therefore, my thesis is to minimize the difference between these two data sources, a procedure of Fusion. The main idea is to read the LiDAR data into data structure of Point Cloud, sample their density to the similar level, and select several corresponding special region pairs( we named these regions -chunks, e.g. Median strip and boundaries of road ) with sufficient interesting points to do fusion. Interesting points indicate the points with one and more special features among all points. And, the algorithm we used to implement the fusion is ICP( Iterative Closet Point Algorithm). Not similar to Registration of Point Cloud, research in the Fusion area is rare. Therefore, the existing algorithms are not well suitable in this project. I deduce some new algorithms during my research since the original ICP Algorithm cannot work well. Both Update Equation and Objective Function are modified. In this thesis, PCL( Point Cloud Library ) is mainly used to implement the basic function, such as nding the nearest points and sampling point cloud, and Eigen library to write the core functions( e.g. Modified Iterative Closest Point Alg ). I also use libLAS library to implement the IO operations and MeshLab to visualize the point cloud after modification.
M.S. in Computer Science, May 2015
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Title: Solar-electric Hybrid Rickshaw for India (semester?), IPRO 351: Solar-Electric Hybrid Rickshaw IPRO 351 Poster F06
Creator: Morales, Tony, Mulhall, Priscilla, Dike, Chukwuderaa, Love, Allisah, Agose, Daisy, Lee, Hei Chang
Date: 2006-09, 2006-12
Description: By working together, learning, and utilizing the myriad of skills within our team, our mission is to complete phase one of IPRO 351 by...
Show moreBy working together, learning, and utilizing the myriad of skills within our team, our mission is to complete phase one of IPRO 351 by presenting results of in-depth research that will determine the feasibility of solar/plug-in power hybrid auto rickshaws in India.
Deliverables for IPRO 351: Solar-Electric Hybrid Rickshaw for India for the Fall 2006 semester
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Title: Misuse Detection (semester?), IPRO 311: Computer Misuse IPRO 311 IPRO Day Presentation Sp07
Creator: Lim, Jongmin, Cho, Young, Niedzinski, Peter, Sanchez, Gerardo, Soo, Jason, Alton, William, Holmes, Matt, Choriki, Justin, Jeong, Heeyeol, Hyc, Daniel, Malanowski, Mark, Nadji, Yacin
Date: 2007-05, 2007-05
Description: The main problem the IPRO addressed was that of insider misuse. Contrary to popular belief, the largest threat facing companies on a...
Show moreThe main problem the IPRO addressed was that of insider misuse. Contrary to popular belief, the largest threat facing companies on a technology level is not intrusion, but rather insider misuse. Insider misuse is a relatively new area of research in the field of Computer Science, which is one of the reasons it’s a relatively unheard of problem. In addition to that, due to intense media bias towards intrusion, people are blissfully unaware of the problem of insider misuse. Ethically, it’s an interesting problem. Companies already closely monitor user activity, but any infringement on perceived privacy in the workplace generally sends everyone flustering left and right. The IPRO had to personally evaluate if we felt the necessary invasion of privacy was worth the overall result which is a more secure and profitable business. Companies can decide which approach they would like to take, but it’s hard to believe that a company would choose one that wouldn’t help to prevent a loss of money.
Deliverables for IPRO 311: Misuse Detection for the Spring 2007 semester
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