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Overview

Nicholas Weaver is affiliated with the International Computer Science Institute in the United States. Their research spans multiple subfields within medicine and computer science, with a particular focus on network security, mental health, and healthcare innovation.

The scientist's recent papers cover a range of topics including mental health services, blockchain technology, and nutrition. Notable publications include:

  • Extracting Godl from the Salt Mines: Ethereum Miners Extracting Value, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Lazy Susan: dumb waiting as proof of work, 2021, CL Technical Reports
  • Escalating Complexity and Fragmentation of Mental Health Service Systems: The Role of Recovery as a Form of Moral Communication, 2021, Kybernetes
  • Salmon Food-Specific Compounds and Their Metabolites Increase in Human Plasma and Are Associated with Cardiometabolic Health Indicators Following a Mediterranean-Style Diet Intervention, 2023, Journal of Nutrition
  • Recovery and Care Continuity Experiences of People in Mental Health Care: A Conciliatory Approach to the Challenge of Implementing Recovery-Based Services, 2021, Sociology of Health & Illness

The primary fields of study for this researcher are in medicine, with a detailed focus on these subfields:

  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • General Health Professions
  • Education
  • Clinical Psychology

Main research topics addressed by the scientist include:

  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Healthcare Innovation and Challenges
  • Psychiatric Care and Mental Health Services
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes

Frequent coauthors collaborating with the researcher are:

  • Emily B. Hill
  • Richard Reisdorph
  • Mobin Khajeh-Sharafabadi
  • Katrina Doenges
  • Kevin Quinn

The researcher has contributed to multiple publication venues, including:

  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • Kybernetes
  • Journal of Nutrition
  • Clinical Pediatrics
  • Preventive Medicine

Best Publications

  • How to Own the Internet in Your Spare Time

    Stuart Staniford;Vern Paxson;Nicholas Weaver

  • Inside the Slammer worm

    D. Moore;V. Paxson;S. Savage;C. Shannon

  • A taxonomy of computer worms

    Nicholas Weaver;Vern Paxson;Stuart Staniford;Robert Cunningham

  • Netalyzr: illuminating the edge network

    Christian Kreibich;Nicholas Weaver;Boris Nechaev;Vern Paxson

  • Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain

    Kirill Levchenko;Andreas Pitsillidis;Neha Chachra;Brandon Enright

  • Very fast containment of scanning worms

    Nicholas Weaver;Stuart Staniford;Vern Paxson

  • The Spread of the Sapphire/Slammer Worm

    David Moore;Vern Paxson;Stefan Savage;Colleen Shannon

  • Method and system for reducing the rate of infection of a communications network by a software worm

    Stuart Staniford;Clifford Kahn;Nicholas Weaver;Christopher Coit

  • The top speed of flash worms

    Stuart Staniford;David Moore;Vern Paxson;Nicholas Weaver

  • Protocol-Independent Adaptive Replay of Application Dialog.

    Weidong Cui;Vern Paxson;Nicholas Weaver;Randy H. Katz

  • PharmaLeaks: understanding the business of online pharmaceutical affiliate programs

    Damon McCoy;Andreas Pitsillidis;Grant Jordan;Nicholas Weaver

  • The SFRA: a corner-turn FPGA architecture

    Nicholas Weaver;John Hauser;John Wawrzynek

  • Exploiting underlying structure for detailed reconstruction of an internet-scale event

    Abhishek Kumar;Vern Paxson;Nicholas Weaver

  • Detecting in-flight page changes with web tripwires

    Charles Reis;Steven D. Gribble;Tadayoshi Kohno;Nicholas C. Weaver

  • Botnet Judo: Fighting Spam with Itself.

    Andreas Pitsillidis;Kirill Levchenko;Christian Kreibich;Chris Kanich

  • Examining How the Great Firewall Discovers Hidden Circumvention Servers

    Roya Ensafi;David Fifield;Philipp Winter;Nick Feamster

  • Global Measurement of {DNS} Manipulation

    Paul Pearce;Ben Jones;Frank Li;Roya Ensafi

  • Botcoin: Monetizing Stolen Cycles.

    Danny Yuxing Huang;Hitesh Dharmdasani;Sarah Meiklejohn;Vacha Dave

  • Post-placement C-slow retiming for the xilinx virtex FPGA

    Nicholas Weaver;Yury Markovskiy;Yatish Patel;John Wawrzynek

  • An architecture for exploiting multi-core processors to parallelize network intrusion prevention

    Robin Sommer;Vern Paxson;Nicholas Weaver

Frequent Co-Authors

Vern Paxson
Vern Paxson University of California, Berkeley
John Wawrzynek
John Wawrzynek University of California, Berkeley
Mark Allman
Mark Allman International Computer Science Institute
Stefan Savage
Stefan Savage University of California, San Diego
Nick Feamster
Nick Feamster University of Chicago
Kirill Levchenko
Kirill Levchenko University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Damon McCoy
Damon McCoy New York University
Geoffrey M. Voelker
Geoffrey M. Voelker University of California, San Diego
Serge Egelman
Serge Egelman International Computer Science Institute

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