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RSS cambridgeDigital Processing at Addenbrooke's Hospital
White Paper With one of the UK's largest medical illustration departments, Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge is known throughout the world. The first part of the department to transfer to digital was the Graphic Design section in 1995. [03 Jul 2008]
Stephen Hawking, SGI, and CosmoGrid: The Collaborative Search for Beginnings
White Paper U.K.researchers, led by principal investigator Professor Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University, have combined forces to attack this compute- and visualization-intensive problem with the U.K. Today cosmology research focuses on reconstructing the... [03 Jul 2008]
IfM Case study: The BOC Group
White Paper The Cambridge Auto ID Centre, based within the IfM, is conducting research into RFID technology involving the design, building, testing and deployment of a global infrastructure that will make it possible for computers to identify any object... [03 Jul 2008]
An e-Guide to Cyberfraud
White Paper Forrester Research, an Internet consulting company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, estimates that the consumer market will sell $18.2 billion worth of goods in 1999--twice 1998 figures. This e-guide examines the trends in Internet fraud: what to look... [03 Jul 2008]
Symbol Technologies: Enabling e-Commerce in the New E-conomy
White Paper Forrester Research, a market research firm based in Cambridge, Mass.predicts that more than 40 percent of American households will be shopping online by 2003. While Symbol continues to help the broadline retail, transportation and logistics... [03 Jul 2008]
Hybris - Stealth Worm and Trojan with Plug-ins
White Paper Russian developers at Kaspersky Labs (Cambridge, UK) first discovered the Hybris worm in October 2000, which originated from South America. Hybris is one of the more common viruses we're seeing right now," said Brian Kinj, a member of the technical... [03 Jul 2008]
GPRSWeb: Optimizing the Web for GPRS Links
White Paper This paper investigates what causes the HTTP protocol and its underlying transport TCP to underperform in a GPRS environment. The paper examines why certain GPRS network characteristics interact badly with TCP to yield problems such as: link under... [03 Jul 2008]
Tamperproofing of Chip Card
White Paper There are two ways of attacking smartcards - destructive reverse engineering of the silicon circuit (including the contents of ROM), and discovering the memory contents by other means; a well equipped laboratory can do both. [03 Jul 2008]
High Confidence Visual Recognition of Persons by a Test of Statistical Independence
White Paper The possibility that the iris of the eye might be used as a kind of optical fingerprint for personal identification was suggested originally by ophthalmologists, who noted from clinical experience that every iris had a highly detailed and unique... [03 Jul 2008]
Future Networks: Optical and Wireless Communication Systems
White Paper Telecommunication is one of the fastest growing technology markets. Moreover, two areas have been strongly targeted - these fields will lead the technology evolution in the coming years - optical and wireless systems. [03 Jul 2008]
The Resurrecting Duckling: Security Issues for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks
White Paper In the near future, many personal electronic devices will be able to communicate with each other over a short range wireless channel. We investigate the principal security issues for such an environment. [03 Jul 2008]
Improving Smartcard Security Using Self-Timed Circuit Technology
White Paper For the past three years, the uptake of smartcard technology has been hindered by the discovery of a number of non-invasive attacks. In these attacks, a modified terminal device can extract cryptographic key material from a smartcard by observing... [03 Jul 2008]
Common Phase Error Correction for OFDM in Wireless Communication
White Paper Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) systems are very sensitive to phase noise caused by oscillator instabilities. In this paper the phase noise is resolved into two components, namely the Common Phase Error (CPE), which affects all the... [03 Jul 2008]
Compression in Network Backup Environments
White Paper Our compression white paper examines the issues surrounding compression in network backup systems. This white paper will help network backup system administrators make appropriate and effective compression choices for their own backup systems. [03 Jul 2008]
Future Wide Area Wireless White Paper
White Paper GSM to all intents and purposes is an ISDN based standard with 12.2 kbps voice channels sitting within 16 k/bit channels multiplexing into 144 k/bit channels in the ISDN core network. Release 99 WCDMA was originally an ATM based standard with a... [03 Jul 2008]
