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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

[17 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

[16 May 2008]

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

[15 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

[15 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]

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]

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]

Issues for Using Computing and Data Grids for Large-Scale Science and Engineering

whitepaper There are many challenges in making Grids a reality, in the sense that they can provide new capabilities in production quality environments. While the basic Grid services have been demonstrated, e.g.in the IPG prototype demonstrated at the...

Tags: security management, grid, grids, reality

[10 Apr 2008]

E. & J. Gallo Uses Robust TIBCO Portal to Cultivate Personalized, Real-Time Information Access

whitepaper Gallo Winery has become a world leader in the art and science of grape growing and winemaking. The E. J. The company wanted a single login and customized content including production control, shipment tracking, and discussion forums.

Tags: business management, tracking, production, forums

[10 Apr 2008]

The AMP Netconnect Enhanced Cat 5 Cabling System Using ACO

whitepaper The last four years have seen a tremendous growth in cabling system science. Since the debut of Category 5 products in 1992, manufacturers have learned more and more about what it takes to make a true high performance twisted pair cabling system.

Tags: cable, cabling, tsb, cabling system

[10 Apr 2008]

A Study of an Augmented Museum Experience

whitepaper This paper describes the design of a study of visitors to a science museum who are equipped with wirelessly connected handheld devices. The museum exhibits are augmented with information and services in the form of web pages, and the users can...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, physical, pages, virtual

[10 Apr 2008]

MySQL Helps EraGen Biosciences Deliver Powerful Analytic Tools for Genome Research

whitepaper EraGen Biosciences is a Madison, Wisconsin-based life science company that designs, develops and commercializes products and technologies that accelerate the drug discovery process, advance molecular diagnostics and enable functional proteomics.

Tags: database management, enable, amounts, timely

[10 Apr 2008]

Danish Technical University: Sun Helps University Educate New Generations of Engineers

whitepaper DTU offers studies in many engineering disciplines, including chemistry, electronics, mathematics, mechanics, computer science and informatics. Danish Technical University (DTU) is the leading center of engineering education and research in Denmark...

Tags: learning management systems, education, engineering, northern europe

[10 Apr 2008]

Carnegie Technology Education: Builds Unique Distance Learning Program on Sun Computing Technologies

whitepaper Instead of enrolling individual students in online courses, CTE collaborates with community colleges, government agencies, businesses and other institutions to leverage each other's strengths: CTE provides world-class computer science expertise...

Tags: learning management systems, institutions, carnegie mellon university, education

[10 Apr 2008]

Utility-Theoretic Information Retrieval, Cognitive Hacking, and Intelligence and Security Informatics

whitepaper The concept of semantic attacks and their countermeasures are expected to be an important component of a new science of intelligence and security informatics. Libicki first characterized attacks on computer systems in the context of information...

Tags: security management, attacks, agents, science

[10 Apr 2008]

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