NEXT MEETING – FRIDAY, September 9, 2005 (noon to 1:00
pm) ____________________________
Subject: Network Sniffing for
Fun and Profit - Tools and Examples
Speaker: Mike Harrison,
GeekLabs
Date/Time: Friday, September 9, 2005 from 12 Noon to 1:00
p.m.
Where: Chickamauga Room, UTC
University Center
Lunch:
Pizza, please RSVP by noon on Friday, Sept. 2 if you plan to
eat
Cost of Lunch: $5.00 per person (members &
nonmembers)
$2.50 for student members
Network Sniffing - for wired and wireless networks,
is often associated with the 'evil' side of computing. It is also a
valuable tool for diagnosing networking problems, finding infected computers,
and debugging client/server problems, as well as detecting (and hopefully
fixing) security issues.
This demonstration will include live sniffing using
wired and wireless technologies: You are invited to bring a WiFi device
(PDA/Laptop) and be a part of the demonstration.
An overview of widely available tools and
techniques will be demonstrated, and a limited number of bootable CD's with
useful network sniffing and traffic visualization software will be
available.
Reservations: If you would
like to join us for lunch, please contact Dawn Ellis by email at Dawn-Ellis@utc.edu or by phone at
423-425-4384 to let her know if you, or others, are planning to attend.
Confirmation of attendance is crucial in deciding how much pizza to order, so
please RSVP no later than noon on Friday, Sept. 2.
Parking: Parking is free on
the street near the University Center if a space can be found or $1 per hour in
the 4th Street garage
This will be a joint meeting of the Chattanooga
Engineers Club and the Chattanooga Chapter of the IEEE Computer
Society.
PREVIOUS MEETING
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Our newest member, "Jack" Gibby
Monday, August 29: "Where Did All
Those Old Tires Go?" - Fred Weinhold, GreenMan Technologies, Inc.
Fred Weinhold told us about the 1991 Solid Waste Act and some
state incentives to encourage better disposal of tires. Historically,
GreenMan has turned 60 percent of the tires they collected into fuel used by
cement kilns, electric utilities, paper plants and steel mills. The
remaining 40 percent had to be disposed of as waste. GreenMan has expanded
their shredding capacity and hopes to reduce disposal as waste from 40 percent
to 5 percent.
He showed us photographs of mulch, formed mulch and
curbing that are examples of the many ways shaved or shredded tires can be
used. Weinhold told us transportation costs are high to collect and
deliver the tires. When a recycling company receives payments on both ends
it means customers control both the input and the output and these demands can
be seasonal. He told us that GreenMan is our Nation’s largest waste tire
collector and processor handling about 30 million PTE (passenger tire
equivalent) per year.
Fred Weinhold is a member of the Chattanooga
Chapter of SCORE, Counselors to America’s Small Businesses. He invited us
to learn more about SCORE by calling 423-752-5190 or visiting www.scorechattanooga.org.
DARPA Update: Dr.
Novobilski, Associate Professor and Head of UT Chattanooga’s Computer Science
& Electrical Engineering Department, and graduate student, Abe Mishler,
showed a video of their team's autonomous vehicle field tests.
Their team used a beautiful blue Saturn VUE body and recently received a site
visit from the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Grand Challenge
officials. However, they were not selected as one of the 43 teams that
will be at the upcoming qualifying event. The officials plan to narrow the
final competitors to 20 before the ten hour race on Oct. 8. The race can
be monitored at: www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge.
The DARPA Grand Challenge is a field test intended to accelerate research and
development in autonomous ground vehicles that will help save American lives on
the battlefield.
The UTC team designed and built a fine autonomous vehicle and they plan
to compete with their design in the summer of 2006 in the Annual Intelligent
Ground Vehicle Competition (
www.igvc.org) or
similar competitions. For more information, please contact Andy Novobilski
at (423) 425-4202 or through his website at:
http://www.utc.edu/faculty/Andy-Novobilski.
FUTURE MEETINGS
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(noon in the Tallan
Cellar Restaurant at 2 Union Square, unless another location is indicated)
Monday, September 5: No Meeting in observance of Labor Day
Monday, September 12: "Today's New
Technology in the Trucking Industry" Marty Fletcher, U.S.XPRESS,
INC.
Monday, September 19: “Full Body
Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging” Ken Porco, Functional
Imaging
Monday, September 26: “21st
Century Nuclear Power Plant” Dan Ingersoll,
ORNL
Monday, October
3:
Monday, October 10, 11:00 am - noon,
Tentative: "Digitizing IPIX Photography for Security Systems"
Vistascape Security Systems
Joint Meeting with the Student Chapter of the
IEEE Computer Society at UTC
Location: UTC University Center, Lunch
will be Pizza for $5
Monday, October
17:
Monday, October
24:
Monday, October 31: "Total
Production Maintenance" Jack Mooney, ArvinMeritor, Site Manager in Loudon,
TN
Date TBA: “Today’s U.S. Railway System”
Gregory Comstock, Norfolk Southern Railway
QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS?
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If you have any
questions or suggestions about program items please contact Judy Driggans at
423-751-7616 or by email at jdriggans@comcast.net. You can find
references to other Chattanooga Engineers Club members at our web site: www.ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org.