The future is a moving target

1977 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
Milton Leontiades
Keyword(s):  
Perception ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Peterken ◽  
Brian Brown ◽  
Ken Bowman

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-177
Author(s):  
Francis Fukuyama
Keyword(s):  

Author(s):  
Shouq Mohsen Alnemari ◽  
Sabah M Alzahrani

The traditional technologies, tools and procedures of any network cannot be protected from attackers due to the unchanged services and configurations of the networks. To get rid of the asymmetrical feature, Moving Target Defense technique constantly changes the platform conformation which reduces success ratio of the cyberattack. Users are faced with realness with the increase of continual, progressive, and smart attacks. However, the defenders often follow the attackers in taking suitable action to frustrate expected attackers. The moving target defense idea appeared as a preemptive protect mechanism aimed at preventing attacks. This paper conducts a comprehensive study to cover the following aspects of moving target defense, characteristics of target attacks and its limitation, classifications of defense types, major methodologies, promising defense solutions, assessment methods and applications of defense. Finally, we conclude the study and the future concern proposals. The purpose of the study is to give general directions of research regarding critical features of defense techniques to scholars seeking to improve proactive and adaptive moving target defense mechanisms.


Outsiders ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Zachary Kramer

Everyone is different in some way. Each of us has a part of our identity that, if revealed, would mark us as outsiders. These differences matter, as they define who we are and how we relate to the world around us. Because equality is a moving target, civil rights law needs to change with the times. Though we live in an age of individuality, difference can be a uniting force. As we look to the future, the charge of civil rights is to carve space for people to define who they are for themselves. We are all outsiders. We need a civil rights for everyone.


Author(s):  
Robert Baldwin ◽  
Martin Cave ◽  
Martin Lodge

This text seeks to highlight the growing importance of the language, practice, and study of regulation for contemporary social life, to show how the theory and practice of regulation have developed through a process of continuous interaction, to explore key themes in the study and practice of regulation, to assess developments, and to suggest how these trajectories will develop in the future. The challenge for this book is not only to account for this broadening and maturation of interest, but also to illustrate how regulation has remained a moving target, both in the fields of practice and study, for the past three decades. The very concept of regulation has evolved so that study in this area is no longer confined to the examination of dedicated ‘command’ regimes that are designed to offer continuing and direct control over an area of economic life.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Goffart ◽  
Aaron Cecala ◽  
Neeraj Gandhi

ABSTRACTFollowing the suggestion that a command encoding the expected here-and-now target location feeds the oculomotor system during interceptive saccades, we tested whether this command originates in the deep superior colliculus (SC). Monkeys generated saccades to targets that were static or moving along the preferred axis, away from (outward) or toward a fixated target (inward) with a constant speed (20°/s). Vertical and horizontal motions were also tested. Extracellular activity of 57 saccade-related neurons was recorded in 3 monkeys. The movement field (MF) parameters (boundaries, center and firing rate) were estimated after spline fitting the relation between the saccade amplitude and the average firing rate of the motor burst. During radial motion, the inner MF boundary shifted in the same direction as the target motion for some neurons, not all. During vertical motion, both lower and upper boundaries were shifted upward during upward motion whereas the upper boundary only shifted during downward motions. For horizontal motions, the medial boundaries were not changed. The MF center was shifted only for outward motion. Regardless of the motion direction, the average firing rate was consistently reduced during interceptive saccades. Our study shows an involvement of the saccade-related burst of SC neurons in steering the gaze toward a moving target. When observed, the shifts of MF boundary in the direction of target motion correspond to commands related to antecedent target locations. The absence of shift in the opposite direction shows that SC activity does not issue predictive commands related to the future target location.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENTBy comparing the movement field (MF) of saccade-related neurons between saccades toward static and moving targets, we show that the motor burst issued by neurons in the superior colliculus does not convey commands related to the future location of a moving target. During interceptive saccades, the active population consists of a continuum of neurons, ranging from cells exhibiting a shift in the center or boundary of their MF to cells which exhibit no change. The shifts correspond to residual activity related to the fact that the active population does not change as fast as the target in the visual field. By contrast, the absence of shift indicates commands related to the current target location, as if it were static.


1961 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Wm. Markowitz
Keyword(s):  

A symposium on the future of the International Latitude Service (I. L. S.) is to be held in Helsinki in July 1960. My report for the symposium consists of two parts. Part I, denoded (Mk I) was published [1] earlier in 1960 under the title “Latitude and Longitude, and the Secular Motion of the Pole”. Part II is the present paper, denoded (Mk II).


1978 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 387-388
Author(s):  
A. R. Klemola
Keyword(s):  

Second-epoch photographs have now been obtained for nearly 850 of the 1246 fields of the proper motion program with centers at declination -20° and northwards. For the sky at 0° and northward only 130 fields remain to be taken in the next year or two. The 270 southern fields with centers at -5° to -20° remain for the future.


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