Does anyone else have sysmptoms so bad they have to take pain medication for it? I was diagnoised about two years ago and I am currently taking Oxycontin, 80 mgs TID (240 a day)and OxyIR 15 mgs for BT pain. I am the "D" type and even taking all these medications plus Lomotil, when needed, I still have rough days and a lot of pain.
I was just wondering if I am unique in the pain aspect of this or do others suffer like this too? I am in pain every day, no matter what my bathroom habits are that day.
Thanks to anyone who can enlighten me as to the severity of their problems.
Hi, Director. I feel for you and the difficulties you're going through. My pain level is not as bad as yours - isn't Oxycontin a REALLY strong drug? I do have a lot of cramping pain (mostly on left, but sometimes middle and right side), but my biggest problem with IBS is diarrhea. I take Bentyl 20mg 2-4 times daily (depending on whether I'm just trying to maintain normalcy or trying to control the big D)and Calcium supplements to bind me up too. Life with IBS is miserable, so I can relate to your difficulties too. Good luck to you.
Katie...Thanks for your response. Yes, Oxycontin is a very strong narcotic painkiller. The 80 mgs. I take three times a day, are equal to taking approximately 16 5 mg Percocets each time. It is a time release drug that is suppose to carry you 12 hours, but most people don't get that kind of pain control. You are suppose to be able to take it twice a day, but most people find they have to go to three times a day, like I do. Even then, I find now that it really only holds me for about six hours. That is when I need to use my breakthrough medication, Oxycodone, 15 mgs. The doc has me on one to one and a half (15-221/2 mgs) every four hours as needed. I sometimes have to take it in the middle of my Oxycontin dose as well, so as you might guess, I am in considerable pain almost all the time. It does diminish a little at times, but that is usually short lived. The biggest problem in taking these narcotic painkillers, is the tolerance your body builds up to them. I have been on this dose for about four months now and I'm starting to notice a difference in the relief I get when I take my medication. The doctor mentioned the last time I saw him we might have to consider going to four times a day or upping the doseage. Probably he would go to 100 or 120 mgs. I told him no, for now. I would like to wait as long as possible before I have to change it. Already it is really too high.
The pain I have is almost all on the left side and is constant. It does vary somewhat and I do get some very sharp hits from time to time. Bowel movements do not relieve the pain, as some people say it does for them. I do at times get some lessening of the pain, but it is always with me. My contant companion. I did try Bentyl, like you're on, early on when I was first diagonoised, but didn't have any luck as far as relief. I was also on Lotremin (I think that's right) for a couple months before they pulled it from the market last year. I really didn't seem to get much help from it either. I do take a calcium supplement.
Thanks again for responding and sharing your problem with me and all the others who suffer like we do. It's a tough one and at least for me, there doesn't seem to be a lot that can be done, short of keeping it somewhat under control with the pain meds. I'm open for any suggestions though, so if anyone out there can give any advice, please let me know.
Angelababy...I read what you asked Rose, and even though she may reply, I wanted to also. I have taken it (Lomotil) off and on for several years without any problem what so ever. It is a very old drug (basically it's opium) that has been used for a long time to stop diarehea. I take Oxycontin for the pain, but also to slow the bowels. When things are real bad, I also have Lomotil to take.
I wouldn't be afraid of it. I'm not sure what your doctor meant, but I've never had one hint of a problem with it.
For Angelababy...Concerning your last post and your pain problem with IBS. I think it's time you thought about another doctor. I wanted to give you some kind of idea how my problem was (and is) handled by my doctor. I feel very fortunate to have an understanding as well as compassionate doctor, who is willing to work with me on my problem. I originally wrote to these boards asking about other people who have IBS and if they have pain associated with it, as I do. It seems the majority do not have a serious pain problem, just the problems with bathroom visits at inopportune times, which causes a problem for most.
I went to the doctor because of the pain I was having in my lower left abdomenal area. I had all the tests done over a period of sevewral months, but during this time my doctor had me on medication to keep me as comfortable as possible. When you say you have to go to the ER for medication because your doctor won't give you any makes me think your doctor isn't looking after your best interests. That is, assuming you truly do have IBS and are in pain from it. I would look for a new doc. My doctor started me on Lortab 7.5 and then eventually increased it to the 10 mg. I was on the Lortab for about a year, but started building quite a tolerance to it, which caused some concern (for my doctor)because of the high levels of Tylenol I was consuming daily. He then switched me to the Oxycontin, 20 mg twice a day. To make this short, I had to have it increased until we reached a level where it handled my pain. That was somewhere in the 40 mg three times a day area. I'm currently up to 80 mg three times a day and take OxyIR for breakthrough pain, as well. All this medication, in addition to easing the pain also slows the bowels, which is the big problem when you have IBS. Like I mentioned eartlier, I also have Lomotil, which I take on days that are really bad. Usually, it works, but it might take a coupkle doses to do it. Because of the bowel spasams, I also have Klonipin, but only take it usually at bedtime. With the Oxy, it is just too sedating for me to take it during the day and try to work too.
I would give serious thoughts to checking into another doctor to go over your problems. Preferably, one that has some experience or backround with IBS patients and long acting opoiods, like Oxycontin, MS Contin or Methadone. You need to be able to be treated without running to the ER every time you have a flareup. I have pain every day, so I would be there all the time, if I didn't have my doctor.
Take care and the best of luck to you with your problems. I hope things work out for you. Please write in and let us know what you do and what happens.
First, I'm sorry to hear of the great pain you carry with you on a daily basis. My brother is a longtime chronic sufferer of this condition. I have seen him through year upon years of sleepless nights, massive weight loss, and trips to the hospital. It breaks my heart.
I am concerned that you are on a medication that is so addictive. Currently, there is a lawsuit going on regarding Oxycontin because although it appears to be a great pain reliever, the dependency factor has altered many lives. I realize that sometimes you have to weigh one thing against the other; I understand that when dealing with something so debilitating like severe IBS symptoms, sometimes addition is better than suffering with daily ongoing pain. However, the addiction part of this medication is so little known and not widely understood, which is why doctors prescribed it in the past so freely. I see that you are already building up a tolerance - obtaining Oxycontin can be costly because it's difficult to obtain nowadays. I hope you have discussed this with your doctor. You may want to try an apothecary, who can specially mixed certain medications to help you find comfort without the addiction.
Also, my brother, who at times looks so undernourished that he looks like he's starving to death, has recently been put on digestive enzymes. He tried them before without much luck, but he has finally hit on a pill that works with his system. He is slowly putting on weight, and can finally eat something without the immediacy of pain and bathroom time right afterwards. It's a blessing.
It's been a trial for my brother. He is also on medication that can cause addiction, but since taking the enzymes, he takes less of the medication, which is a relief to the family and a blessing for him.
I wish you the best and I will keep you in my prayers.
thanks director..for getting back to me.
If you have a condition and require certain treatment for it, your doctor should provide you with that treatment. None of us wants to "become addicted", but if we need something for the pain, your doctor should provide that medication. If you do indeed have IBS and your doctor won't prescribe anything for you, I urge you to seek out another doctor and at least get another opinion.
Check out my posts under the "Pain Management" thread (on these Boards) and you can tell just how cooperative my docotor has been with me. I don't know what I'd do without him. I know I wouldn't be leading the quality of life I am now leading and I certainly wouldn't be working fulltime.
Yes, I take opiate, long acting painkillers that are addictive. I have to in order to lead a somewhat normal life. I urge you to get the medical attention you need and deserve!
holly cow what Dr. would prescribe morphine(oxycontin) for a patient with IBS? That is just masking symptoms, and creating more problems with decreasd intestinal motility! i'd get a 2nd opinion!
To directorofnursing...As a health professional, I appreciate your advice concerning second opinions. On the same hand the doctor that is prescribing my medication is a very caring and understanding person who followed all the guidelines, before we got to the point of the medications I am on today.
I not only had a second opinion from a gastro doc, but also a third from a surgeon. The gastro guy is the one that actually made the diagnosis, but only after extensive testing. I had all the usual. CT Scan, Upper GI, Colonoscopy, MRI and one or two others, I'm sure. My problems actually started years ago when I had a perforated ulcer (duodenal) and the doctors did emergency surgery, removing approximately 60% of my stomach and some small intestine. They performed a Bill Roth II (I'm never absolutely sure if it's a BR I or II!!) and I have had various problems over the years (surgery was in '75), the most difficult to deal with being the "dumping syndrome". I didn't experience the pain part of all of this until the early spring, of 2000. It seemed to be triggered by stress and tension mainly at work. The Gastroentrologist I was referred to a couple years ago by my PC doctor did send me to see a surgeon for another opinion, "just in case". His opinion was there really wasn't anything that he could do surgically, unless I was willing to carry a bag the rest of my life. This is not a option I would even consider, so in the end I was sent back to my original doctor and he has worked with me in an effort to control the pain and other IBS symptoms with medication. Since you wrote in a couple weeks ago, he has actually increased my medication (Oxycontin) to 100 mg TID. I also have 15 mg Oxycodone for breakthrough pain. Where other people become constipated from the meds, I don't and often require Lomotil to help with the really bad episodes. Yes, it decreases the motility and besides the pain control, that is exactly what we're trying to acheive!
Sorry, I didn't mean to ramble on some much about this, but I wanted you and others to understand, this is something that has been done with several doctors involved and my primary care doctor handling my medications, so I can lead as normal a life as possible, under the circumstances. Thank you for your concern and suggestions, I truly have looked at all aspects of my problem and this seems to be the best route to take at the present time.
I see my doctor next week and since my intake of Oxycontin seems to be rapidly increasing and I'm, up to 100 mgs TID, I was think of discussing a switch to something else. Something that I wouldn't build up a tolereance so quickly. MS Contin and Kadian have both come to mind. Does anyone have any opinions how Oxycontin compares to these two medications. Also, if there is a change, what is best for bt pain. Right now I'm taking 15 to 30 mgs of Roxicodone. Do you stay with that or switch to something in the MS family? Thanks.
what about a duragesic patch? this would give you 24-7 coverage for pain, then take something for break through pain. What exactly is your diagnosis??? i've never heard of pain this bad with IBS. I also suffer form IBS and yes it runs right up there with child birth!!! I take dicyclomine for my intestional spasms, you must be very misrable with your pain and the excessive use of medications to control it.
Duragesic patch being one of them. We also discussed certain types of morphine meds, but he is trying to reserve the other meds until a change is needed in the future for whatever reason.
My diagnosis is Irritable Bowel Syndrom and my primary care doctor (who is prescribing for me) did not make the diagnosis. Two others (one a gastro doc) made it and referred me back to my PC doctor. Sorry you haven't heard of severe IBS before, but my doctor alone has two other patients like me, who require narcotic pain meds.
As far as being miserable with my condition, yes, there are days where it is difficult to get up and even make it to work. Most days I manage, but as we have established, require medications to do my day to day normal activities. Thank you for your concern.


This week is going to be more about me asking you questions than me going off on a rant. I am legitimately curious as to whether some of the things I've experienced and/or heard hold true for everybody or if my own particular experience is just plain weird (note, I'm not inviting people to confirm if *I* am weird. We already know the answer to that).
So, normally when you think about sites like Twitter or Facebook, you think about the great big wide public domain, right? Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of your peers and colleagues. However, most social platforms have a way around this. On Twitter you can "direct message" people so that you are just talking to them. On Facebook there is a similar messaging system.
I myself tend to use direct messages or Facebook messages if I want to converse in a way that might not fit with how I converse on the wide open platform. If I want to share a funny observation, verbalize a complaint, or just check on someone who seems to not be doing well, I tend to use the private messaging system for whatever platform I'm on.
How does your community work? Do you see direct messages pretty frequently from both men and women? Do you feel that men and women use private messaging with different motivations? Does my experience sound pretty typical to yours or do you experience something different?
Beyond this question, there is also the sad fact that some people opt to use private messages to bully other people. I have only heard women verbalize this kind of situation so I am wondering if men experience it too. Believe it or not, I have heard women say that they have received, via direct message, very inappropriate messages regarding their appearance or messages with not so subtle sexual undertones. With all of the talk about bullying, I find it disconcerting that there could be so much abuse going on where people can't step in to intercede. I find myself wondering how much of this goes on beyond our ability to see, and how many people simply delete these messages, feel hurt, and do nothing because it is all behind the privacy curtain.
If you or someone you know has ever received these kinds of damaging private messages, I can only encourage you, whether man or woman, to vocalize your concerns. Just because it was a private message does not reduce the impact it can have on a person.
What is your experience with the underground, behind the curtain, "private" sector of the online world? Do you notice different behaviors between men and women? How so?
Great points. Yes I do see a difference. Men do not play those games, they ask straight forward questions. I tend ot get more DM's from men but I think it is because we talk business, we do not want everyone to see our convos.
Margie, I will be sharing a post I've written with you by DM at the next available opportunity. That is inequality we can easily rectify.
I just skimmed through my DM's, so to add a guy's perspective, they are relatively balanced between men and women. That said, most are a note that isn't, for whatever reason, appropriate for public or for a very specific purpose (business, transactional, scheduling followups, stats, etc).
@Wittlake Well thanks for checking, Eric! Interesting how much private messaging has replaced email, isn't it?
@margieclayman Yes, and yet I got your reply notification by email. I wish we could get rid of email, but alas, not quite yet.
Hmmmm, I honestly thought the bullying was left in high school. Perhaps I don't experience it because I wouldn't put up with it?? My direct messages on Twitter and Facebook are equally distributed when it comes to business, but for the fun "stuff", it's obviously slanted toward women (me being a woman and all). I am interested in others responses!
@inawemarketing Do you think that women feel more secure joking around with other women online? Do you not feel there is as much comfort in men and women joking around online?
@margieclayman That's tough to answer. I'm married and try to protect that at all costs, so while I have male friends there's a distinct line – those men will pick up the phone and call when they need something – or reply openly. So in most cases direct messages from men come in the way of business.
Ok, not really but I have gotten DM comments on posts I've published, mostly from people who want to comment but don't necessarily want to be bullied back because of their comment. I've sent a few DMs because I wanted to comment on a post but I just didn't want to invite trolls onto a post, especially if it was a sensitive subject. (I think I even sent you one once) I use DMs when I discover a typo or grammar mistake as a shoulder tap and whisper to the author. I've DMed specific people who have influenced or inspired a particular post (again, you have been on that list!) Mostly DMs for are a really lazy way to send email.
@dogwalkblog Nah, it's all part of the conversation.
The majority of my DMs are still the auto-variety. Otherwise, it is when I have a rapid and personal interchange with a good online friend. Same goes for Facebook messaging. Getting back in touch, getting an update on a personal matter, or just sharing offbeat humor on spur of the moment.
@dbvickery I am really concerned about your obsession with Denver. I think we're going to have to have an intervention during this here off-season :)Thanks for sharing, Brian. As always, I appreciate it!
I had not of heard of this before today. When my Facebook profile was still public I got one strange message from someone who friend requested me. That was about the extent of it. All DM's of been of the auto variety about checking out some service or website. I don't even get DM's to share posts, they are usually replies and I don't mind that stuff being public.
I will echo your words that if you are bullied or receive an upsetting message to tell someone. You can block people as well. It won't undo the harm, but you won't receive a message again from that person.
@susansilver Thanks Susan. That's my main concern, really. What kind of nasty stuff is going on behind "closed doors?" I've certainly seen people spread gossip and rumors via private message – who knows how many people those messages get shared with. And that's another scary thing – there's really no such thing as "private." If you send a communication to someone, it can be shared, with or without your knowledge. Best to keep it civil, non?
I get direct messages from men all the time in my "circle" on Twitter. My thought of reasoning on this is because many of the people I talk with on Twitter are educators. Educators are by nature, VERY social–even the men. On Facebook however, it is usually women that message me. -And it's usually to ask how I'm doing, or ask about another mutual friend/family member. But on LinkedIn-again, a lot of those in education- equal # of men and women message me. Hmm…what do you make of this Ms. Margie?
I am on the same page with you about messaging on Twitter. I use this means if it's something I want to discuss that doesn't relate to the general conversations or if I want to give more personal info.
@tracyschutz Sad isn't it? That fully grown-up, allegedly professional people bully each other in private? Kind of gross, huh?
I probably do get more private messages (on both FB and Twitter) from women than men but, surprisingly, I know quite a few men that utilize the private messaging systems. For me, the primary reason that I engage in private messaging is because the topic is only relevant to the person that the message is directed to. If I am ever unsure about posting something on a person's wall, I always err on the side of caution and send a message…I never want to unnecessarily make anyone uncomfortable and so, often a quick DM or FB message is the best way to go.


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Atul Prakash. Security in Practice: Security-Usability Chasm. Proc. of Third International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS), December 2008. Invited paper. [pdf]
Kevin Borders, Atul Prakash, and Mark Zielinski, Spector: Automatically Analyzing Shell Code. Proc. of the 23rd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '07), Dec. 2007, 501-513.
Xin Zhao, Kevin Borders, and Atul Prakash. Using a virtual machine to protect sensitive Grid resources. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Special issue on Middleware for Grid Computing: A Possible Future. John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 19, No. 14, Sept. 2007, 1917-1935.
Kevin Borders and Atul Prakash, Securing Network Input via a Trusted Input Proxy. Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HOTSEC '07), Aug. 2007. 5 pages. Proceedings can be found online at the Usenix HotSec 2007 web site.
Patrick McDaniel and Atul Prakash, Methods and Limitations of Security Policy Reconciliation. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC),9(3):259-291, August, 2006. [pdf]
Patrick McDaniel and Atul Prakash, Enforcing Provisioning and Authorization Policy in the Antigone System. Journal of Computer Security , 14(9):483--511, November, 2006. [pdf]
Kevin Borders, Xin Zhao, and Atul Prakash. Siren: Catching Evasive Malware (Short Paper). IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2006. pp.
L. Opyrchal, A. Prakash, and A. Agrawal, Designing a Publish-Subscribe Substrate for Privacy/Security in Pervasive Environments, Proceedings of the 2006 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services , June 26-29, 2006, pages 313-316.
Xin Zhao and Atul Prakash. WSF: An HTTP-level firewall for hardening web servers. The 17th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, Nov. 2005, Phoenix, AZ. [pdf]
Kevin Borders, Xin Zhao, and Atul Prakash. CPOL: High-Performance Policy Evaluation. ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security, Nov. 2005. [CPOL CCS 2005 paper]
Pavan Verma and Atul Prakash. FACE: A firewall analysis and configuration engine, Proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), 31 Jan-4 Feb, 2005, pages 74-81.
Kevin Borders and Atul Prakash, Web Tap: Detecting Covert Web Traffic. Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Oct. 2004. [pdf]
Lukasz Opyrchal, Atul Prakash, and Amit Agrawal, Designing a Publish-Subscribe Substrate for Privacy/Security in Pervasive Environments, presented at the First Workshop on Pervasive Security (PSPT), Boston, MA, August 2004. [pdf]
Xin Zhao and Atul Prakash. Source authentication in group communication systems. Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications , Sept 2003. pp. 455 -459, [pdf]
James Irrer, Atul Prakash, and Patrick McDaniel. Antigone: policy-based secure group communication system and AMirD: antigone-based secure file mirroring system. Proceedings of the DARPA Informatoin Survivability Conference and Exposition, Volume 2, April 22-24 2003, pp. 44-46. [pdf]
Patrick McDaniel and Atul Prakash. Methods and Limits of Security Policy Reconciliation, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 12-15 May 2002, Oakland, CA, pp. 73-87. [pdf]
Lukasz Opyrchal and A. Prakash, Secure Distribution of Events in Content-Based Publish Subscribe Systems, Proceedings of the 2001 Usenix Security Symposium, Washington D. C., August 2001.
Patrick McDaniel, Atul Prakash, James Irrer, Sharad Mittal, and Thai-Chuin Thuang. Flexibly Constructing Secure Groups in Antigone 2.0, Proceedings of the DARPA Information Survivability Conference & Exposition II (DISCEX'01) , Volume 2, 12-14 June 2001, pp. 55-67 (Volume 2).[pdf]
Radu Litiu and Atul Prakash. DACIA: A mobile component framework for building adaptive distributed applications. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Volume 35, Issue 2, April 2001, pp. 31-42.
Radu Litiu and Atul Prakash. Developing adaptive groupware applications using a mobile component framework. Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2000) , Dec. 2000, pp. 107-116. [pdf]
Patrick McDaniel and Atul Prakash. Antigone: Implementing Policy in Secure Group Communication Technical Report CSE-TR-426-00, Department of EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 2000. [pdf]
Patrick McDaniel, Atul Prakash, Peter Honeyman, Antigone: A Flexible Framework for Secure Group Communication, Proceedings of the 8th Usenix Security Symposium, August 1999, Washington D.C., pp. 99-114. [pdf]
Trent Jaeger, Atul Prakash, Jochen Liedtke and Nayeem Islam, Flexible control of downloaded executable content, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), Vol. 2, Issue 2, May 1999, pp. 177-228. [pdf]
Subramanian, S.; Malan, G.R.; Shim, H.S.; Lee, J.H.; Knoop, P.; Weymouth, T.E.; Jahanian, F.; Prakash, A., Software architecture for the UARC Web-based collaboratory, Internet Computing, IEEE, Mar-Apr. 1999, Vol. 3, Issue 2, pp. 46-54. [pdf]
Atul Prakash, Hyong Sop Shim, and Jang Ho Lee, Data management issues and tradeoffs in CSCW systems, IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering , Jan.-Feb. 1999, Vol. 11,Issue 1, pp. 213-227. [pdf]
Lukasz Opyrchal and Atul Prakash, Efficient Object Serialization in Java. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshop on Electronic Commerce and Web-based Applications/Middleware, 31 May-4 June 1999, pp. 96-101. [pdf]
R. Litiu and A. Prakash, Stateful Multicast Services, Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), IEEE Press, 31 May- 4 June 1999, pp. 82-89. [pdf]
Brian Noble, Li Li, and Atul Prakash. The case for better throughput estimation, Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, IEEE Press, 29-30 March 1999, pp. 70-75. [pdf]
G. Olson, D.E. Atkins, R. Clauer, T. Finholt, F. Jahanian, T.L. Killeen, A. Prakash, and T. Weymouth, The Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory (UARC), ACM Interactions, Vol. 5, Issue 3, May/June 1998, pp. 48-55. [pdf]
R. Strom, G. Banavar, K. Miller, A. Prakash, and M. Ward, Concurrency Control and View Notification Algorithms for Collaborative Replicated Objects, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 47, No. 8, April 1998, pp. 458-471. [pdf]
Hyong Sop Shim and Atul Prakash, Tolerating Client and Communication Failures in Distributed Groupware Systems, Proc. of the Seventeenth IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), Purdue, 20-23 Oct. 1998, pp. 221-227. [pdf]
R. Litiu and A. Prakash, Adaptive group communication services for groupware systems, Proc. of the 2nd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOC '98), 3-5 Nov. 1998, IEEE Press, pp. 218-229. [pdf]
N. Manohar, M. Willebeek-LeMair, and A. Prakash, Applying Statistical Process Control to the Adaptive Rate Control Problem, IBM Watson Research Center Technical Report No. RC20927 , 1998.
H.S. Shim, R. Hall, A. Prakash, and F. Jahanian, Providing Flexible Services for Managing Shared State in Collaborative Systems, Proc. of the European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) , September 1997. [pdf]
R. Strom, G. Banavar, K. Miller, A. Prakash, and M. Ward, Concurrency Control and View Notification Algorithms for Collaborative Replicated Objects, The 17th Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Baltimore, MD, May 27-30, 1997, pp. 194-203. [pdf]
Jang Ho Lee, Atul Prakash Trent Jaeger, and Gwobaw Wu Supporting Multi-User, Multi-Applet Workspaces in CBE, The Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, November 1996. [pdf]
R. W. Hall, A. G. Mathur, F. Jahanian, A. Prakash, and C. Rasmussen, Corona: A Communication Service for Scalable, Reliable Group Collaboration Systems, Proc. 1996 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 96), Boston, MA, Nov. 1996, pp. 140-149. [pdf]
A. G. Mathur and A. Prakash, A Protocol Composition-Based Approach to QoS Control in Collaboration Systems, in Proc. Third IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, Hiroshima, Japan, 17-23 June 1996, pp. 62-69. [pdf]
Trent Jaeger, Atul Prakash, and Aviel Rubin. A system architecture for flexible control of downloaded executable content. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Object Orientation in Operating Systems, pages 14-18, Seattle, Wa., October 1996. [pdf]
T. Jaeger, A.D. Rubin, and A. Prakash, Building Systems that Flexibly Control Downloaded Executable Content, Proc. of the 6th USENIX UNIX Security Symposium, July 22-25, San Jose, CA, pp. 131-148. (Best Student Paper Award). [pdf]
N. R. Manohar and A. Prakash, A Flexible Architecture for Integrating Heterogeneous Replayable Workspaces (short paper), Proc. Third IEEE Int'l Conf on Multimedia Computing and Systems, Hiroshima, Japan, 17-23 June 1996, pp. 274-278. [pdf]
S. Paul and A. Prakash, A Query Algebra for Program Databases, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 22, No. 3, March 1996, pp. 202-217.
C.R. Clauer, D.E. Atkins, T.E. Weymouth, G.M. Olson, R. Niciejewski, T.A. Finholt, A. Prakash, C.E. Rasmussen, T. Killeen, T.J. Rosenberg, D. Detrick, J.D. Kelly, Y. Zambre, C. Heinselman, P. Stauning, E. Friis-Christtensen, and S.B. Mende, A Prototype Atmospheric Research Collaboratory (UARC), in Applications of Data Handling and Visualization Technique in Space Atmospheric Sciences, E. Szuszczewicz (ed), NASA SP-519, pp. 105-112, 1995.
N.R. Manohar and A. Prakash, Dealing with Synchronization and Timing Variability in the Playback of Session Recordings, Proceedings of the Third ACM Multimedia Conference, pages 45-56, San Francisco, CA, USA. November 1995. [pdf] [html]
T. Jaeger and A. Prakash, Requirements of Role-based Access Control for Collaborative Systems, in Proc. of the First ACM Workshop on Role-based Access Control , Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 1995. [pdf]
N.R. Manohar and A. Prakash, The Session Capture and Replay Paradigm for Asynchronous Collaboration, Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Kluwer, pp. 149-164, Stockholm, Sweden., September 1995. [pdf]
T. Jaeger and A. Prakash, Management and Utilization of Knowledge for the Automatic Improvement of Workflow Performance, in Proc. of the Conference on Organizational Computing Systems , Milpitas, CA, Aug. 1995, pg. 32-43. [pdf]
T. Jaeger and A. Prakash, Representation and Adaptation of Organization Coordination Knowledge for Autonomous Agent Systems, in Proc. of the 7th Int'l Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering , Rockville, MD, June 1995, pg. 103-105. [pdf]
T. Jaeger and A. Prakash, Implementation of a discretionary access control model for script-based systems, in Proc. of the 8th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop , County Kerry, Ireland, 13-15 June 1995, pp. 70-84. [pdf]
Atul Prakash and John Riedl. Distributed systems, multimedia and infrastructure support in CSCW systems. ACM SIGOIS Bulletin , Volume 15, Issue 2, December 1994. Special issue on Workshop write-ups and position papers from CSCW'94, pp. 18-58.
A. Prakash and M. Knister, A Framework for Undoing Actions in Collaborative Systems, in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) Volume 1, Number 4. December 1994, pp. 295-330. [pdf]
N.R. Manohar and A. Prakash, Asynchronous Collaboration via The Record and Replay of Temporal Multimedia Streams, SIGOIS Bulletin: CSCW'94 Workshop on Multimedia Infrastructure for Collaboration, Vol. 15, No. 2, pages 32-34, December 1994. [pdf]
S. Paul and A. Prakash, Object Data Models to Support Source Code Queries: Implementing SCA within REFINE, IEEE Third Workshop on Program Comprehension, Washington D.C., IEEE Press, November 14-15, 1994, pp. 145-152. [pdf]
T. Jaeger and A. Prakash, Support for the file system security requirements of computational e-mail systems, in Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pg. 1-9, 1994. [pdf]
A. Prakash and H. S. Shim, DistView: Support for Building Efficient Collaborative Applications using Replicated Objects, in The 1994 ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, ACM Press, October 1994, pp. 153-164. [pdf]
A.G. Mathur and A. Prakash, Protocols for Integrated Audio and Shared Windows in Collaborative Systems, in Proc. of the ACM International Conferenece on Multimedia , San Francisco, CA, Oct. 1994, pp.381-388. [pdf]
S. Paul and A. Prakash, Supporting Queries on Source Code: A Formal Framework, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (Special Issue on Reverse Engineering), Vol. 4, No. 3, September 1994, pp. 325-348. [pdf]
S. Paul and A. Prakash, Querying Source Code using an Algebraic Query Language, International Conference on Software Maintenance, IEEE Press, 19-23 September 1994, pp. 127-136. [pdf]
E. Buss, R. De Mori, M. Gentleman, J. Henshaw, H. Johnson, K. Kontogiannis, E. Merlo, H. Muller, J. Mylopoulos, S. Paul, A. Prakash, M. Stanley, S. Tilley, J. Troster and K. Wong, Investigating Reverse Engineering Technologies: The CAS Program Understanding Project, IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3, August 1994, pp. 477-500. [pdf]
S. Paul and A. Prakash. A Framework for Source Code Search Using Program Patterns, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Volume 20, Number 6, June 1994, pp. 463-475. [pdf]
C. R. Clauer, J. D. Kelly, T. J. Rosenberg, C. E. Rasmussen, P. Stauning, E. Friis-Christensen, R. J. Niciejewski, T. L. Killeen, S. B. Mende, Y. Zambre, T. E. Weymouth, A. Prakash, S. E. McDaniel, G. M. Olson, T. A. Finholt, and D. E. Atkins, A New Project to Support Scientific Collaboration Electronically, EOS Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, Vol. 75, June 28, 1994.
T. Jaeger, A. Prakash, and M. Ishikawa, A framework for the automatic improvement of workflow performance, in Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, , 6-9 Nov. 1994, pp. 640-646, 1994. [pdf]
A.G. Mathur and A. Prakash, On Transport Protocols for Audio Conferencing in CSCW Environments, in Proc. of the Workshop on the Role of Real-Time in Multimedia/Interactive Computing , Durham, NC, Nov. 1993. [pdf]
T. Jaeger and A. Prakash, BizSpec: A business-oriented model for specification and analysis of office information systems, Proc. of the Fifth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, pg. 191-198, 1993. [pdf]
C.R. Clauer, D.E. Atkins, T.E. Weymouth, G.M. Olson, R. Niciejewski, T. Finholt, A. Prakash, C.E. Rasmussen, T.J. Rosenberg, J.D. Kelly, Y. Zambre, P. Stauning, E. Friis-Christensen, and S.B. Mende, A Prototype Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory (UARC) (Abstract), EOS, Transactions on American Geophysical Union, Vol. 74, 1993.
M. Knister and A. Prakash, Issues in the Design of a Toolkit for Supporting Multiple Group Editors, Computing Systems -- The Journal of the Usenix Association, Spring 1993, Vol. 6, No. 2, 135-166. [pdf]
A. Prakash and M.J. Knister, Undoing Actions in Collaborative Work, Proceedings of The Fourth ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Oct. 1992, Toronto, Canada, pp. 273-280. [pdf]
Atul Prakash and M. Knister, Undoing Actions in Collaborative Work, CSE-TR-125-92, CSE Division, Department of EECS, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March, 1992. [pdf]
Atul Prakash and M. Knister, Design considerations in choosing operations for building groupware systems (abstract), presented at the ACM CSCW'92 Workshop on Tools & Technologies for CSCW, October 31, 1992. Published in ACM SIGOIS Bulletin, Vol. 13, Issue 4, April 1993. [pdf]
Santanu Paul and Atul Prakash, Source code retrieval using program patterns. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Computer-Aided Software Engineering, 6-10 July 1992, pp. 92-105. [pdf]
Atul Prakash and R. Subramanian. Filter: An Algorithm for Reducing Cascaded Rollbacks in Optimistic Distributed Simulations. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Simulation Symposium , 1991, pp. 123-132. [pdf]
M.J. Knister and A. Prakash, DistEdit: A Distributed Toolkit for Supporting Multiple Group Editors, Proc. of the Third Conf. on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Los Angeles, October 1990, pp. 343-355. [pdf]
C.V. Ramamoorthy, Y. Usuda, A. Prakash, and W.T. Tsai, The Evolution Support Environment System, IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 11, November 1990, pp. 1225-1234.
C.V. Ramamoorthy, V. Garg, and A. Prakash, Support for Reusability in Genesis, IEEE Transactions in Software Engineering, Vol 14, No. 8, August 1988, pp. 1145-1154.
C.V. Ramamoorthy, V. Garg, and A. Prakash, Programming in the Large, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 7, July 1986, pp. 769-783.
V. Ramamoorthy, A. Prakash, W.-T. Tsai, and Y. Usuda, Software Engineering: Status and Perspectives, IEEE Computer, Vol. 17, No. 10, October 1984, pp. 191-209.

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A new study carried out at NHH finds that unemployment has disturbing long term negative effects. Young people who have been unemployed are scarred by the experience. The younger they are, the more likely they are to be jobless later in life. Some of them drop out of the labour market for good.
'People's early employment history turns out to be a decisive factor in relation to later success in working life. I believe this finding can be used to justify substantial efforts targeting young people,' says Professor Øivind Anti Nilsen.
In the article 'Scarring effects of unemployment', Nilsen and doctoral candidate Katrine Holm Reiso present their research, in which they have studied the long-term effects of having experienced unemployment.
Nilsen and Reiso use the term scarring effects.
'I think scarring effects is a good description. It refers to something that doesn't just go away, but stays with you for a long time,' says Reiso. Scarring is the long-term effect of unemployment on future opportunities in the employment market.
The study shows that young employees can be badly affected by a period of unemployment. The probability of them experiencing several periods of unemployment or dropping out of the labour market is higher than for people who have never been unemployed. And there are no observable differences between the groups. They have all completed an education and been in employment for at least two years. Simply having experienced unemployment leads to people being scarred for many years.
The Norwegian labour market is interesting for several reasons, according to the two researchers from the Department of Economics, not least because of the low level of unemployment and good welfare benefits.
The researchers believe that these histories of unemployment reveal a certain dependence on the state.
This spring, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation carried reports about young people saying that they wanted to take a year off to live on benefits. Lower and upper secondary school pupils are considering taking a break from school and expect to receive benefits from NAV. This group is not unemployed and is therefore not part of the two NHH researchers' sample, but Nilsen believes that taking a year off to live off benefits can have a negative effect, also in the long term.
'When welfare schemes have existed for a certain period, the chances of their being misused tend to increase. These benefits originally targeted specific groups, but it seems that, over time, others also tend to want to take advantage of them. That is a risk when people who are not part of the intended target group also make use of these benefits,' Nilsen believes.
In conclusion, Reise and Nilsen say that the results clearly show that a person's early employment history is a decisive factor in relation to subsequent success in working life.
'These findings can be used to justify public efforts targeting young people,' Nilsen says.
This article is taken from the English version of NHH Bulletin for 2012.


Juliet is black & brown and has light hair missing on her lower spine by her tail. Juliet is very friendly and likes to lick everybody. I got her for my wife after our son died to help "fill the hole" after his death.


Oct 7 2010 13:00 Boxing Light Fly Weight (46-49kg) Men 1/8 Eliminations Bout 61 n.A.
Oct 9 2010 13:00 Boxing Light Fly Weight (46-49kg) Men Quarterfinals Bout 126 n.A.
Oct 13 2010 15:00 Boxing Light Fly Weight (46-49kg) Men Finals Gold Medal Bout 210 n.A.


Microsoft and 343 Industries to bring Halo to VR?
Microsoft recently announced that they're working with 343 Industries to bring future Halo experiences to their Mixed Reality Headset.
Unfortunately, no more information was released, other than Alex Kipman, Microsoft's 'Technical Fellow', stating "We are not providing specifics right now, but it is going to be a lot of fun to work with them".
If bringing the Halo universe to VR wasn't enough VR news, Alex also said "In addition, I am thrilled to announce that Steam content will also run on Windows Mixed Reality headsets. Virtual reality enthusiasts know that Steam is a great place to enjoy cutting edge immersive experiences. We can't wait to bring their content to you".