My work on advanced file carving techniques for digital forensics is currently funded by the National Science Foundation. This work funds Lodovico Marziale, a doctoral student who works closely with me on both file carving and the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to parallelize digital forensics tools. In addition, I've received a two year contract from Technology International of Virginia to work on multi-tier ad hoc routing protocols. This contract funds two research assistants (also doctoral students) on a twelve month per year basis and is also funding upgrades for my lab, the Networking, Security, and Systems Administration Laboratory (NSSAL). The NSSAL is the UNO-designated center for information assurance education at the University of New Orleans.

I recently coordinated the University of New Orleans' application to become a National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Information Assurance Education. As of 2006, UNO carries this designation. The curriculum of the Department of Computer Science was certified in 2003. We have performed the course mappings again for 2008 and will be applying for the CAE-R research designation this year. The NSA/DHS is currently supporting three of our students with full-ride scholarships under this program.

My book on mobile computing, Fundamentals of Mobile and Pervasive Computing (McGraw-Hill, 2004) is available on Amazon.com. Buy a copy. My child needs food. :) There also seems to some renewed interest in my book on service discovery protocols, entitled Service Discovery: Protocols and Programming. It's here.

In April 2007 I was promoted to Full Professor. Aside from great wealth and early retirement (neither of which is in hand), what else is there?