Roderick J. Holland joined The MITRE Corporation 12 years ago, after a software engineering career leading development and advanced development efforts at companies including Atex, Texet, Eastman Kodak Boston Technology Center, and Sun Microsystems. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MITRE, he led a series of research and advanced development projects under the auspices of the MITRE Technology Program, DARPA, and other Government sponsors, with a special emphasis on the practical transition of research technology prototypes. As Principal Investigator for MITRE's TrIM and Clipper programs, his research interests currently center on using machine translation as an embedded component in prototype mission systems supporting coalition collaboration and intelligence analysis.

Dr. Holland will discuss UNDERSTANDING CYBER-THREAT CULTURES IN THEIR OWN WORDS. Although this behavior is not universal, many cyber-threat groups are remarkably self-disclosing in Web-site and forum postings, seeming to regard their own national languages as a sort of encryption. This self-disclosure can provide useful information on identity formation, recruitment, motivations, targets, world knowledge, and technical means. Acquisition and exploitation of this valuable information requires coming to grips with the languages involved. We will discuss some simple technical expedients for cross-language discovery and exploitation, and examine relevant examples in Chinese and Arabic.