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Math Attack!   August 28, 2007 One or two of the talks at DFRWS were a bit math heavy, including using non-standard terms and notation (or at least different than what is generally used without redefinitions), 20 minutes of equations and little time devoted to saying what this method actually does (it's a digital forensics conference), and taking so long to get to the example, which is kind of glossed over, that everyone forgets what it's really about. And I'm guessing that probably only a small handful of people had enough of a math background to get what was going on. I was a reviewer for one of the papers and while I thought it was good, I was not qualified to determine if the equations were valid (I had to farm out that part of the review). Anyway, this was my impression of the event. The speaker looks more or less like the real one, the listener is no one in particular. Addendum: Brian Carrier took a picture of me during the talk. It looks like I'm studiously taking detailed notes while everyone else isn't paying attention. Sadly the truth is that I'm just drawing this picture.

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I tend to doodle. Over the years, I've accumulated lots of random sketches of things, sometimes people, sometimes things, and sometimes just abstract lines. The basic idea on these pages is for me to slowly scan in highlights from my collection of random quick doodles. I also am providing a place where I can explain what it is or what motivated it or perhaps some reason why I'm not to blame. With the sketches of people, their name may be hand-written, or there might be a talk title provided, but I will tend to avoid providing full names. I don't mind if people know who they are, I just don't want them coming up on search engine hits, since that might be a bit rude.

Note that the images are PNGs with transparency. Mozilla and Firefox properly render them. Safari too, I think. Internet Exporer doesn't. I don't care.
If you want to see the image without the annoying blue-lined background image, just click on the image.

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