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University Uses Robust IP Network to Deliver Advanced Teaching and Learning Tools

whitepaper To sustain the quality of its education, Ajman University of Science & Technology in the UAE believes in continual evolution of its teaching and learning practices. Ajman University of Science & Technology wanted to implement advanced teaching and...

Tags: ethernet

[11 May 2008]

New Techniques for Requirements Management Using Rational RequisitePro, Part 1: Using Architectural Methods to Analyze, Manage, and Trace Business Requirements

whitepaper This paper describes new architectural methods and techniques that focus on requirements engineering, the science of capturing, analyzing, and managing requirements throughout a project's life cycle. Although this paper uses the Rational toolset to...

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

6 Tips for Adding International Characters and Symbols to Your Document

whitepaper Need to include characters from the Greek alphabet in the science homework? Addressing a letter to a customer with an umlaut in the name? Comparing U.S.dollars to yen, euros, and pounds sterling in a report?

Tags: business management

[11 May 2008]

Key Principles for Business-Driven Development

whitepaper Just as software development is not hard science, the paper believes that these principles should not be taken as statements of absolute, everlasting truth, but rather as guides to improved software project results.

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle

Photo The Grand Challenge is a science and technology competition set up by the Ministry of Defence to address military challenges faced by the UK armed forces. The challenge is to create a system with a high degree of autonomy that can detect, identify...

Tags: military, sensor, robot

[06 May 2008]

Change-Impact Analysis of Firewall Policies

whitepaper Firewalls are the mainstay of enterprise security and the most widely adopted technology for protecting private networks. The quality of protection provided by a firewall directly depends on the quality of its policy (i.e.configuration).

Tags: firewalls

[06 May 2008]

Firewall Queries

whitepaper Firewalls are crucial elements in network security, and have been widely deployed in most businesses and institutions for securing private networks. The function of a firewall is to examine each incoming and outgoing packet and decide whether to...

Tags: firewalls

[03 May 2008]

Distributing Security-Mediated PKI

whitepaper The security-mediated approach to PKI offers several advantages, such as instant revocation and compatibility with standard RSA tools. This paper presents a design and prototype that addresses its trust and scalability problems.

Tags: pki

[02 May 2008]

Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain

Photo The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum in London.

Tags: tech, science, history

[01 May 2008]

Satyam spices up silver screen with latest effects

News The division has already teamed up with 4K to make Marvi Hämmer, a bilingual science magazine programme for children starring a 3D computer-animated rat. The glamour of Hollywood and the Indian outsourcing industry will collide on the big screen...

Tags: hollywood, bpo, india

[29 Apr 2008]

India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...

Photo Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a version of Charles Babbage's famous Difference engine, a machine designed to mechanically calculate polynomial functions.

Tags: hyderabad, robots, bangalore

[29 Apr 2008]

E.ON powers down to cut carbon and costs

News It's not rocket science. Although it may sound counter-intuitive, energy giant E.ON has been setting its sights on reducing the power consumption of its non-energy generating business. Its goal is to shrink its corporate carbon emissions, and save...

Tags: green, e.on, carbon emissions, travel

[25 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…

Comment Emasculated by so-called "Computer Science" departments; that's where. The topic that got readers turning to their keyboards this week was silicon.com's latest poll: What was your first home computer?

Tags: mac, zx spectrum, rfid

[24 Apr 2008]

Executive Briefing: Linking Learning to the Broader Human Capital Strategy

whitepaper Participants in this discussion include Paul Storfer, Human Capital Science; Josh Bersin, Bersin & Associates; Allison Rossett, San Diego State University; Sarah Beers, Fidelity Investments; Viginia Clark, Unisys; Karen Kocher, Cigna; and others.

Tags: online - distance education, capital, human, learning

[22 Apr 2008]

The science of biopharmaceuticals meets business flexibility

whitepaper Good science and sound strategies aren't enough anymore. This IBM Institute for Business Value white paper explores how a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) can help improve the development and delivery of treatment to patients.

Tags: collaborative web, service oriented architecture, explores, strategies

[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]

A New Intrusion Detection System Using Support Vector Machines and Hierarchical Clustering

whitepaper Whenever an intrusion occurs, the security and value of a computer system is compromised. Network-based attacks make it difficult for legitimate users to access various network services by purposely occupying or sabotaging network resources and...

Tags: network security

[11 Apr 2008]

Photos: Charles Babbage's masterpiece reincarnated

Photo Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a version of Charles Babbage's famous Difference engine, a machine designed to mechanically calculate polynomial functions.

Tags: science museum, computer

[10 Apr 2008]

Photos: Robots, lasers, action

Photo You know the future has arrived when scientists bring together two staples of science fiction: lasers and robots. But rather than 50-tonne behemoths dealing death with a massive light cannon, the El-E robot is instead using lasers to think like a...

Tags: healthcare, laser, robotics

[10 Apr 2008]

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

whitepaper And nowhere is that relationship more evident than in Brown's computer science teaching laboratory, which incorporates the latest advances in computing with classroom learning. Brown University and Sun Microsystems, Inc.have been partners in...

Tags: learning management systems, education, leaders, microsystems

[10 Apr 2008]

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