Chewing Gum for the Brain...

In some last ditch attempt to avoid the customary list of links to "nice" web servers, here's some stuff I wrote during my undergrad degree at Glasgow. Absolutely no guarantees of quality or anything but I hope you have a nice read...

Public and Secret Key Cryptography (postscript version)
Security is a critically important aspect of distributed operation across any network. This is a discussion of the uses, advantages and drawbacks of public key cryptosystems which are used heavilly to support secure transmission of your data across the net.
Confirm? - Conform!
An analysis of Effy Oz's article and conclusions regarding one of the most expensive and highly publicised software development failures.

A Critical Analysis of Therac25 Development.
A summary of the now infamous Therac25 incidents with a view towards what went wrong and why...

An Analysis of the Producer-Consumer Problem
A look at the Producer-Consumer problem whose solution forms a keystone in the area of concurrent systems.

Adam Donlin / adamd@dcs.ed.ac.uk