The basic vulnerability of the network has become a heated controversy since Dan Kaminsky, a Seattle-based researcher at the security firm IOActive, quietly notified a number of companies that distribute Internet addressing software earlier this year.
I.B.M. has said that it has notified a number of computer makers that it believed they were infringing on its patents for a type of computer known as RISC, or reduced instruction set computing.
Vinay Deolalikar, a mathematician and electrical engineer at Hewlett-Packard, posted a proposed proof of what is known as the "P versus NP" problem on a Web site, and quietly notified a number of the key researchers in a field of study that focuses on problems that are solvable only with the application of immense amounts of computing power.
The U.S. General Services Administration, an agency that manages many of the government's leases and contracts, notified a number of departments that it is likely to need new flexibility from Congress in order for it to make utility and lease payments in the coming days.
The financial advisory firm notified a number of plaintiff lawyers on Tuesday that enough clients had agreed to the settlement terms to make it work, said these people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record.
As Parliament prorogued, MPs and peers were notified of a number of bills that have now reached the statute book after receiving royal assent.
Physicians were also notified about a number of important and possibly life-threatening drug-related complications (for example, QT interval changes with erythromycin).
The district notified a low number of TB suspects (4,529, 21.4% of the expected 21,181 cases) and sputum smear positive TB patients (292, 13.8% of the expected 2,118 cases) even though having sufficient human resources, a solid recording and reporting system, and an adequate budget for the TB control program (Sidoarjo Health Office, 2003).
When the Bureau was arranging an escape, it alerted one of its East Berlin contacts, who notified a certain number of students on the waiting list that they should be in the vicinity of a specified corner at a set time, usually around midnight.
