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Grid Computing: The Current State and Future Trends
White Paper The term 'Grid Computing' is relatively new and means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. It has been used as a buzzword for any new technology to do with computing, especially computer networking, and therefore it... [11 Sep 2009]
GPU-Accelerated Computer Vision on the Linux Platform
White Paper The GPUCV library accelerates computer vision algorithms using the huge computational power of modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). This paper presents a series of alterations to the GPUCV library that enable it to be used natively... [02 Feb 2009]
Vista finds a home on 1,300 Canterbury Uni desktops
News Canterbury Christ Church University has moved to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system in time for the new academic year. The computing services department migrated 1,330 student desktops from XP over the summer... [15 Sep 2008]
Skills gap plugged by latest IT degree?
News These are: Bury College; Canterbury College; Chichester College; Tresham Institute, Kettering; Sandwell College; Somerset College of Arts and Technology; New College, Swindon; Stockport College; Stratford upon Avon... [06 Aug 2008]
Kent signs £32m outsourcing deal
News The Kent Public Service Network will initially connect about 1,100 sites and provide extra bandwidth to Kent County Council, Kent schools, Canterbury City Council and Thanet District Council. Schools, libraries and... [22 Jul 2008]
NHS broadband network speeds patient diagnosis
News X-rays, ultrasounds and CT scans can also be transmitted over the network, meaning cancer, pathology and radiology experts in specialist centres in Canterbury and Maidstone can analyse patient data from anywhere in Kent. [18 Jun 2008]
Constraint Authoring System: An Empirical Evaluation
White Paper Evaluation is an integral part of research that provides a true measure of effectiveness. This paper presents a study conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of CAS, a knowledge acquisition authoring system developed for generating the... [09 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Apple vs Vista, jail for mobile users and the broadband swindle…
Comment Michael Fischer, Canterbury What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. [03 Jan 2008]
Improving TCP Performance Over 802.11 WLAN With Radio Network Feedback
White Paper A new technique is proposed that enables TCP to distinguish wireless packet losses from congestion related packet losses. This is achieved by introducing a wireless enhancement proxy (WENP) at layer 3 in the base station that monitors... [27 Dec 2007]
TCP End-to-End Performance Improvement Over Wireless Networks Via Early Packet Loss Recovery
White Paper A new technique is proposed that enables TCP to early detect packet losses, which cannot be detected and retransmitted using the standard fast retransmit mechanism, and to quickly retransmit those packets without waiting for a timeout to... [27 Dec 2007]
The University of Canterbury Is Implementing the Information Technology Infrastructure Library With the Help of BMC Service Desk Express Suite
White Paper The company wanted to support the implementation of Information Technology Infrastructure Library best practices and show that the IT Services Unit of the University of Canterbury (UC) is accountable and meeting... [14 Sep 2007]
Breaking China: One entrepreneur's decade of change
Comment That's the equivalent of a Western child reciting The Canterbury Tales, aged three and a bit. During his travels around China, silicon.com's Dan Ilett caught up with a number of entrepreneurs, many from overseas. [04 Jul 2006]
Public sector must wake up to CRM
News Angela Waite, president of Socitm and head of ICT at Canterbury City Council, said technology and smarter organisation of contact centres is essential as she is always "being asked to deliver more for less". [24 Mar 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.01.06
Round-Up The story, as the Round-Up is sure you've already noted, is also remarkably similar to the Manciple's Tale in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, in which the wife of Phoebus Apollo is betrayed by the squawking of his pet crow... [20 Jan 2006]
Kent gets commercial WiMax network
News The WiMax service, known as Skylink, will be targeted at both homes and businesses and will initially cover the city of Canterbury and the area around Sittingbourne. Following the completion of a six-month pilot, Kent... [02 Sep 2005]
