Mark Lim’s Blog Page

Ah, you might think I’m talking about Jesus Christ, but this post isn’t about him at all! This particular Jesus I’m referring to is actually a person by the name of Jesus Mena, who has authored the book: “Investigative Data Mining for Security and Criminal Detection“, published by Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003. I’m currently reading the first chapter of this book and it provides a very fascinating look at how data mining technologies such as neural networks, decision trees, and natural language processing, can be used to mine heaps of data for information on criminal or terrorist behaviour. My particular area of research focuses how artificial intelligent technologies such as decision trees, artificial neural networks, or fuzzy systems, can be used to data mine e-mail traffic for signs of possible criminal or terrorist behaviour. Given that this book covers the area that I’m researching, its definitely helping me get some good ideas about how to deal with this topic.

If you’re also interested in the area of data mining and homeland security, you might want to check out the other book authored by Jesus Mena, called “Homeland Security Techniques and Technologies“, published by Charles River Media (publisher now swallowed up by Delmar Thomson Learning), 2004. I’ve currently got this book on order, so I can’t wait to get my hands on it….

G’day everyone! This is my first blog page on the web, so it’s quite a new thing for me. I’ve heard about blogs before, but never understood about them or what the fuss was about. But when my brother Spacehamster told me about blogs, I thought it’d be pretty cool to get me a bit of ‘presence’ on the web. I’ve already got a bit of presence on the web scattered here and there, but it’s finally good to try to put this all together on the one site.

Keep an eye out for some of my postings on this blog site. I’ll be putting up stuff about my research (computer security and A.I.) and links to some interesting web sites. Stay tuned!!

PS: You might have noticed I’ve given my greeting a bit of an Aussie flavour, instead of the standard ‘Hello world!’. Why follow everyone else? It’s good to be a bit different!!