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Language as Evidence
From Threat Letters to Emails, Blogs & Social Profiles |
 SPECIAL CONFERENCE OFFERThe management team of The Training Company is making us a special offer for this year's annual Techno Security & Digital Investigations Conference at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina being held at the Marriott Resort at Grande Dunes from June 6 - 9, 2010. For those who would like to attend the 4 day conference, they are offering anyone who takes our Armstrong University Class a Free VIP pass for the conference. This will be the 12th year for the Techno Security & Digital Investigations Conference, which has become one of the most respected security, digital forensics and investigations conferences in the world.To register for your Free VIP Ticket. Go to: https://www.techsec.com/conferences/register.cgi?c=TS-2010 The registration price is currently listed at $1,195 on the website. Select the current price but enter "0" for amount paid and enter "Special Armstrong University Class VIP" in the Promotional Code section of the form. For any attendees who hold a CISSP, CISA or a CISM certification, this conference also provides 32 CPE credit hours. For more information about the conference: http://www.techsec.com/html/Techno2010.html  In some criminal, civil, and security matters, language itself can be evidence. A suicide note, a threatening letter, anonymous communications, business emails, blog posts, trademarks, even social profiles -all can be used to help law enforcement, intelligence analysts, private investigators, prosecutors, defense attorneys, plaintiff attorneys, human resource executives understand the heart of an incident. Computer-based linguistics can be used to help determine authorship, threat authenticity and validity of suspicious docu-ments and other textual data. Due to our increased reliance on the use of computer generated data such as emails and word processed documents, computational linguistics is an increasingly important subfield in linguistics. In computational linguistics, linguists develop software which enables com-puters to perform linguistic behaviors: the most famous example is the Internet search engine, a computer program imitating a human's ability to search the language of documents to classify documents by topic. ALIAS supports investigations through core text analysis modules for character, word, sentence and meaning analysis and specific modules tuned and validated for particular forensic tasks such as threat assessment, suicide note assessment, predator text assessment, authorship identification and trademark similarity. Accessed through a web browser, ALIAS provides a secure environment, protecting your case documents and PDF reports. |
Marriott Resort at Grand Dunes Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Course Cost: $995 Download registration form. You may also pay by check.
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Carole E. Chaski PhD is a forensic linguist based in Delaware. Before founding the Institute for Linguistic Evidence, the first 501(c) 3 scientific research organization devoted to developing and validation testing of forensic linguistic methods, Dr. Chaski served on the faculties of the University of South Carolina-Columbia and North Carolina State University, She has published in academic, peer reviewed journals and developed computer software, ALIAS: Automated Linguistic Identification and Assessment System, modules of which are patent pending. The She has testified in Federal and State courts in Washington DC, Maryland, New Jersey, Georgia and California. Her testimony regarding authorship identification has been ruled fully admissible under both Daubert and Frye criteria. Dr. Chaski earned her A.B . magna cum laude in Greek and English at Bryn Mawr College, M.Ed. in Psychology of Reading at the University of Delaware, and her M.A. and PhD in Linguistics at Brown University. |
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John R. Middleton, Jr. is a commercial litigator based in New Jersey with a broad range of experience in state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels, and has successfully argued matters in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the United District Court for the Southern District of New York, and the Trial and Appellate Divisions of the New York State Supreme Court, among other fora. Mr. Middleton has experience in a variety of areas, including contract disputes, securities regulation, internal investigations, false advertising, employment, trade secrets, trade dress, trademark, copyright, antitrust, insurance, and patent damages. A graduate of Harvard College (A.B magna cum laude in Government and History), Mr. Middleton earned his JD from Columbia University School of Law where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and submissions editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. |
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at Armstrong Atlantic State University was founded in 2006 as a part of the university's continuing efforts to address the growing cyber security education and training needs of our country's Intelligence, Forensic, Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement professionals. As cyber-terrorism and threats have escalated, the Cyber Security Research Institute is preparing individuals and organizations on the front lines of our defense to investigate, analyze, assure and secure our increasingly vulnerable technology and communications.11935 Abercorn Street
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