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On the Safety and Efficiency of Firewall Policy Deployment

whitepaper While ample research has led to tools for policy specification, correctness analysis, and optimization, few researchers have paid attention to firewall policy deployment: the process where a management tool edits a firewall's configuration to make...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

The Essential Role of Mental Models in HCI: Card, Moran and Newell

whitepaper In the formative years of HCI in the early1980s, researchers explored the idea that users form mental models of computer systems which they use to guide their interaction with the system. This was a powerful concept because it meant that if the...

Tags: artificial intelligence

[11 May 2008]

The Changing Face of Online Fraud

whitepaper What's worse, researchers attribute this resurgence in unwanted email to so-called "Image spam" that is often tied to fraudulent penny stock schemes. Not that long ago some officials were declaring the war against spam all but won.

Tags: network security

[11 May 2008]

Cancer Center Empowers Researchers With New Data Exploration Tool

whitepaper Researchers needed a tool to access and explore genomic, proteomic, bio-specimen, imaging, and clinical data. Moffitt deployed Microsoft Amalga, the Unified Intelligence System, as a tool to present data from the warehouse to the researchers...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[06 May 2008]

Canadian Computing Consortium Boosts Performance Fivefold With Sun Technology

whitepaper Their challenge was to improve access to computing resources; satisfy security, data integrity and compliance requirements of researchers; and minimize Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). For HPCVL's new high-performance computing lab, Sun provides a...

Tags: infrastructure management

[06 May 2008]

Computational Power of Sun Compute Grid Helps Researchers Uncover New Ways to Treat Diseases

whitepaper One of the largest academic medical centers in the United States and a leader in clinical research, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has made advances in healthcare that have impacted hundreds of thousands of lives.

Tags: data center

[03 May 2008]

2007 Biomarker Summit findings explored

whitepaper In this white paper, you'll uncover Summit findings that detail a radical shift in the use of biomarkers in BioPharma research and development, and you'll learn ways to fuel collaboration between researchers and stakeholders.

Tags: knowledge and data management

[03 May 2008]

Performance Analysis of the Linux Firewall in a Host

whitepaper Most researchers have focused on analyzing the latency and throughput of router firewalls. Firewalls are one of the most commonly used security systems to protect networks and hosts. Different from this approach, this research focuses on studying...

Tags: firewalls

[24 Apr 2008]

Open source: 'World's largest software company'

News The researchers put this difference down to the fact a large proportion of open source isn't paid for - an intended result of the open source licensing structure. Open source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many...

Tags: software, ibm, open source

[22 Apr 2008]

Cancer Researchers Accelerate Pace of Discovery With Contextual Collaboration Tools

whitepaper Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute wanted to attach research findings to two-dimensional and three-dimensional molecular images and share them with others. Now, researchers can easily collaborate with colleagues in a context-rich...

Tags: 3d modeling and rendering

[14 Apr 2008]

Data Security Standards: Integrity and Availability

whitepaper The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) was formed to take shared responsibility for the long-term accessibility to social science datasets that are of value to current and future researchers and policy-makers.

Tags: security standards

[11 Apr 2008]

UWB Coexistence and Cognitive Radio: How Multiband-OFDM Leads the Way

whitepaper Building on the IEEE 802.15.2 Recommended Practice and the framework developed by IEEE 802.19, researchers are developing techniques to separate UWB signals for others using time, frequency, power, space, and coding, the five techniques available...

Tags: wireless lan

[11 Apr 2008]

Where insight and information technology come together: Combining clinical expertise and cutting-edge technology to transform healthcare

whitepaper A transparent system that makes information available to patients, researchers, providers and health plans' while ensuring appropriate security and privacy. Healthcare systems around the world are being pushed to the breaking point.

Tags: customer support services, care, health, service oriented architecture

[11 Apr 2008]

Photos: Robots, lasers, action

Photo Researchers from Georgia Tech and Emory are working with an expert on human-computer interactions to ensure the robot will one-day be ready to be used in people's homes. Researchers say one of the key benefits of the system is that El-E does not...

Tags: healthcare, laser, robotics

[10 Apr 2008]

Towards a New Internet Architecture? - Or How IPv6 Addresses the Future

whitepaper A number of prominent researchers in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) have lately warned that the Internet architecture is about to change. This creates new complications and problems, which means that the Internet may not be able to...

Tags: ip technologies, force, addressed, engineering

[10 Apr 2008]

SkyQuery Maps the Sky by Linking Astronomical Databases Through Web Services

whitepaper Microsoft Research and researchers at John Hopkins University team up to create a web service allowing geographically dispersed data to be efficiently and conveniently accessed. Astronomy information is growing at an exponential rate, with data...

Tags: web services, john, researchers, rate

[10 Apr 2008]

GridWeaver: Automatic, Adaptive, Large-Scale Fabric Configuration for Grid Computing

whitepaper Researchers, hardware manufacturers, and end-users alike dream of the new scientific and commercial world where resources will be readily available and service provision will be regulated and guaranteed.

Tags: high performance computing, grid, manufacturers, profile

[10 Apr 2008]

Stephen Hawking, SGI, and CosmoGrid: The Collaborative Search for Beginnings

whitepaper 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...

Tags: file and network servers, grid, visualization, sgi

[10 Apr 2008]

RFID: Proceed With Caution

whitepaper At the first conference dedicated to the technology, researchers worldwide launched the Electronic Product Code Network, an open technology infrastructure that uses RFID. Radio-frequency identification is quickly moving from hype to reality.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, frequency, characteristics, dedicated

[10 Apr 2008]

Brown University's State-of-the-Art Computer Science Lab

whitepaper During that time, more than 500 students, researchers and faculty members have benefited each semester from this collaboration between two leaders in their respective fields, higher education and high technology.

Tags: learning management systems, education, leaders, microsystems

[10 Apr 2008]

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