Mathematicians Offer Help in Terror Fight
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A small group of thinking men and women convened at Rutgers University last month to consider how order theory &#151; a branch of abstract mathematics that deals with hierarchical relationships &#151; could be applied to the war on terror.
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The attacks on New York and Washington stun the world. In the aftermath, technology musters to launch a war on terror.
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The jihadists' tactics aren't mysterious. We just need help on the  ground
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Two plots foiled in a single day suggests that extremist terror networks are growing more active in Europe
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A technique originally designed to analyse DNA sequences is the latest weapon in the war against spam. An algorithm named Chung-Kwei (after a feng-shui talisman that protects the home against evil spirits) can catch nearly 97 per cent of spam.
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Specialists make bombs from common household items to help the FBI defend against low-tech terrorist threats in the United States. By the Associated Press.
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Western computer specialists are the target this time, and initial suspicion is focusing on the Mahdi army
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Two Interpol experts arrived here Sunday to help crack last week&#39;s horrific bomb attacks that killed 19 people, even as the Bangladesh government announced a Taka 10 million ($169,492) reward for helping arrest the perpetrators.
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A formula for Web schemes: a lot of mathematicians, a lax legal system and Western targets.
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A one-time jihadi looks at why so many radical Islamic groups include doctors and engineersâand how their involvement threatens the religion itself.
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One of the toughest problems in maths may have been solved by the Russian scientist Dr Grigori Perelman, of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics.
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ONE of the seven great unsolved mysteries of mathematics may have been solved by an eccentric Russian. Grigori &#39;Grisha&#39; Perelman is an expert on Ricci flow.
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By Ryan Gabrielson, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Sep. 17--Hsinchun Chen goes where terrorists gather. He monitors what they say and, particularly, how they say it. He tracks who they are talking to, and whether they are spreading propaganda or providing training. "They're hiding," Chen said.
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Restricting access to scientific information about dangerous germs is more likely to hamper legitimate researchers than to prevent terrorists from using the data for attacks, a leading scientist warned.
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British researchers find a way to close a potential flaw in quantum communication systems.
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Since Sept. 11, ordinary citizens have been told that their watchful eyes are the front line of national terrorism defense. The result? It's a bad time to be a blinking sign or a tasty condiment.
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Encryption circles are buzzing with news that mathematical functions embedded in common security applications have previously unknown weaknesses.