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My paper Measurement and Analysis of Child Pornography Trafficking on P2P Networks, written in collaboration with other members of the Center for Forensics, was been nominated for Best Paper at the International World Wide Web Conference.

This week’s Boston Globe Magazine has a story on innovations developed at UMass. Among mentions of the “hockey stick” global temperature graph, an electricity generating microbe and Craisins, our work here at the Center for Forensics gets a mention.

This week’s New York Times Magazine’s cover story “The Price of a Stolen Childhood,” by Emily Bazelon, describes aspects of the trafficking of child sexual abuse imagery on the Internet, and its terrible consequences for victims.

I’ve received several phone calls in the last hour about “breaking news related to a chemist at the Amherst state crime lab facing criminal charges.” The Commonwealth Center for Forensics is not a state crime lab.