Mars
RSS MarsMARS: A System for Publishing XML From Mixed and Redundant Storage
White Paper The paper focuses on the engineering and the experimental evaluation of the MARS system. This paper presents a system for publishing as XML data from mixed (relational+XML) proprietary storage, while supporting... [25 Jun 2009]
MSDN Webcast: Improving Smart Client Performance Using MARS (Multiple Active Result Sets) in SQL Server 2005 (Level 300)
White Paper SQL Server 2005 introduces Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS), which removes this constraint. This webcast explores the design, architecture, and semantic changes in MARS and what considerations one... [25 Jun 2009]
Intrusion Detection Systems Using Adaptive Regression Splines
White Paper This paper reports a performance analysis between Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS), neural networks and support vector machines. The MARS procedure builds flexible regression models by... [25 Jun 2009]
University Medical Center Improves Security of Critical Healthcare Network
White Paper Duke Medicine deployed two Cisco Security MARS appliances, capable of handling up to 15,000 security events per second combined. Duke University Medical Center and Duke University Health System, known as Duke Medicine,... [25 Jun 2009]
Privacy and Security in the Fast Lane: STM Delivers Secure Transit Services to Commuters
White Paper Cisco Security MARS helps Montreal Transit Organization to efficiently manage large amounts of security data, proactively respond to threats, simplify preparation for security audits, and reduce costs. [25 Jun 2009]
Abstractions and Infrastructures for the Design and Development of Mobile Agent Organizations
White Paper The Mobile Agent Reactive Spaces (MARS) coordination infrastructure is presented as an implementation of a coordination infrastructure promoting context-dependent coordination. Internet applications can take advantage of... [25 Jun 2009]
Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS) in SQL Server 2005
White Paper SQL Server 2005 implements Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS), which removes this constraint. This paper explains the design, architecture, and semantic changes in MARS and what considerations must be... [25 Jun 2009]
NASA Mars Rover: Visualizing the Red Planet With NVIDIA Quadro Graphics
White Paper NASA lands two rovers on Mars and receives photographic image data from the surface. The data transmissions from Mars involve massive amounts of image data that must be quickly studied. Accurate... [25 Jun 2009]
Cutting Edge Systems From Sun Microsystems Help SDSU Stream Once-in-a-Lifetime Mars Images
White Paper SDSU team wanted to develop a website that would provide public access to the pioneering nature of the Mars landing. To develop the website project, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL) turned to a team of scientists... [25 Jun 2009]
Robin Dargue
CIO Profile Dargue started out at Logica Financial Systems in the late 1980s before joining Mars as an IT analyst in 1989 and rising to the position of systems manager for UK and Ireland by 1995. Robin Dargue topped the CIO50 in... [03 Jun 2009]
Nigel Underwood
CIO Profile Underwood spent his early career with consumer goods companies Boots, Coca-Cola Schweppes and Mars. Nigel Underwood, former CIO of DHL Logistics, is no stranger to the silicon.com CIO50 - this year marks his third... [03 Jun 2009]
Martin Taylor
CIO Profile Taylor started off at British Airways in 1976 and spent a decade at Mars in the 1980s, including a year modernising manufacturing plants in the US. Martin Taylor was named group CIO of LCH.Clearnet in January 2007,... [03 Jun 2009]
Jane Scott
CIO Profile A mathematics graduate, Scott is product of the legendary graduate management scheme at Mars. Since joining 3663 Jane Scott has transformed the technology that underpins the £1.5bn food and catering delivery service. [01 Jun 2009]
Darrell Stein
CIO Profile M&S marks something of a homecoming for Stein who began his career at the company back in 1990, before leaving to work as a project manager on data warehousing and financial systems for Mars. Darrell Stein is IT &... [01 Jun 2009]
Photos: Google Earth - deep-sea dive and travel back in time
Photo If the Blue Planet isn't enough for you, images of Mars now include extensive 3D terrain rendering, letting you see how deep or high the Red Planet's surface can be. Google Earth 5.0, which was released on Monday, lets... [04 Feb 2009]
