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Photos: Motor Show showcases the future of car tech
Photo This one has been developed by a team at the Cranfield University, which has been working on electric powered cars for several years. This is the Koenigsegg CCR - one of the fastest and rarest cars in the world - on display at this week's British... [25 Jul 2008]
First students graduate from IT 'business' degree
News The first students to take a university degree in Information Technology Management for Business (ITMB) have completed their studies, with a high proportion of the graduates achieving First Class honours. [24 Jul 2008]
Bletchley Park future under colossal threat
News Among the scientists to put their name to the letter are professor Bill Roscoe, director of Oxford University's computing laboratory, professor Jean Bacon at the University of Cambridge computer laboratory and professor Ian Sommerville, professor... [24 Jul 2008]
Best Practices for VMware ESX Server 3.0 Backup on NetApp
White Paper This paper discusses how Network Appliance and VMware ESX Server 3.0 work together to provide an effective backup solution in the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) environment. The goal of the VMware/NetApp solution is to provide a crash-consistent... [24 Jul 2008]
UNC Hospitals Teams With Agfa to Improve Access to Patient Information With Network Appliance Storage
White Paper University of North Carolina (UNC) Hospitals treats patients from all 100 North Carolina counties and from throughout the southeast. UNC Hospitals has also been rapidly deploying a wide variety of commercial Microsoft SQL Server-based applications... [23 Jul 2008]
802.11 Mesh Networks With Two-Radio Access Points
White Paper This paper proposes a mesh (multi-hop) architecture based on two-radio 802.11 Access Points (AP) and examines achievable aggregate throughput by exploiting spatial reuse and multiple channels. A suitable distributed clustering is used to self... [23 Jul 2008]
Perception Differences About Participating in Distance Education
White Paper Non-traditional distance education is increasingly common in higher education. While many distance programs are separated into continuing education or adult education programs, infusion of distance education courses as options for traditional... [23 Jul 2008]
The Handheld Classroom: Educational Implications of Mobile Computing
White Paper Advances in handheld computing technology have meant that Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) are no longer simply electronic replacements for paper diaries, with current models capable of performing a wide range of functions. [23 Jul 2008]
Xerox Canada Makes the Grade at the University of Calgary
White Paper University of Calgary's administrators came together and developed a concrete five-year expansion plan that would manage a student enrolment that is expected to increase from 28,000 to 35,000 students by 2010. [18 Jul 2008]
Optimizing Request Denial and Latency in an Agent-Based VPN Architecture
White Paper Agent-Based Virtual private networks Architecture (ABVA) refers to the environment where a third-party provider runs and administers remote access VPN service for organizations that do not want to maintain their own in-house VPN servers. [18 Jul 2008]
On Multicasting in Wavelength-Routing Mesh Networks
White Paper This paper considers multicasting on wavelength-routing mesh optical networks. Although multicasting has been studied extensively in different network environments, multicasting in this environment is different, and more involved. [18 Jul 2008]
Light Trails: A Sub-Wavelength Solution for Optical Networking
White Paper All-optical networks are able to transport data from source to destination entirely in the optical domain. This is a departure from current optical networks that rely on Optical-Electrical-Optical (OEO) conversion at each intermediate connection... [18 Jul 2008]
Understanding the Interaction Between Overlay Routing and Traffic Engineering
White Paper This paper studies the interaction between overlay routing and MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) Traffic Engineering (TE) in a single Autonomous System (AS). This interaction is formulated as a two-player non-cooperative non-zero sum game, where... [18 Jul 2008]
Finding an Effective Sustainable Model for a Wireless Metropolitan-Area Network: Analyzing the Case of Pittsburgh
White Paper Many cities are seeking ways to facilitate the deployment of a Wireless Metropolitan-Area Network (WiMAN) based on wifitechnology. City leaders must often balance competing goals, including the desire to maximize the area in which wireless services... [18 Jul 2008]
Social Issues in Self-Provisioned Metropolitan Area Networks
White Paper This position paper frames a set of issues in the collaborative development of self - provisioned Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs). The tantalizing promise of this infrastructure is free access to other people, computing resources and information... [18 Jul 2008]
