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Interviews - Volume 10:
Issue 1 (January 6 - 12, 2009):
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Peter Huber
* In April 2000, Ubiquity Editor John Gehl spoke with energy expert Peter Huber about these issues. Huber's comments about the needs of the power grid were prophetic. We gladly bring them to you now in the hope that they will help you understand the power challenges ahead.
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In Search of the Real Network Science: An Interview with David Alderson
* David Alderson has become a leading advocate for formulating the foundations of network science so that its predictions can be applied to real networks. He is an assistant professor in the Operations Research Department at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., where he conducts research with military officer-students on the operation, attack, and defense of network infrastructure systems. We interviewed him to find out what is going on.
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Are Militaries Lagging their Non-State Enemies in use of Internet? An Interview with Chris Gunderson
Interview by Peter Denning for Ubiquity * The increasing numbers of cyber attacks on military networks and servers have raised the question of what the global defense community is doing to safeguard military systems and protect the larger global Internet. Chris Gunderson, who served in the US Navy from 1973 to 2004 and became an expert in "network centric" warfare, sheds considerable light on this question and in particular on how military philosophy must change to adapt to the rise of information networks.