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- The VPN Conjecture Is True
- Robustness has become one of several paradigms used to address data uncertainty in optimization. While the input data may not be known perfectly, it assumes that each input comes from some known bounded region or universe of legal inputs. Robust optimization then seeks an optimal solution that is valid for...
- Tags: VPN, McGill University, Optimization, VPN Conjecture, Robustness, Networking
- White papers 2007-12-14
- Optimizing Voice-Over-IP Speech Quality Using Path Diversity
- In last few years, Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP has been gaining popularity as an alternative to traditional telephone by transmitting voice signals as packets over the Internet and private IP-based networks. However, voice packets experience loss, delay, and delay variation, which require buffering, playout scheduling and loss concealment at...
- Tags: McGill University, IP, Telephony, VOIP, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking
- White papers 2006-06-30
- Data Mining Using Relational Database Management Systems
- Software packages providing a whole set of data mining and machine learning algorithms are attractive because they allow experimentation with many kinds of algorithms in an easy setup. However, these packages are often based on main-memory data structures, limiting the amount of data they can handle. This paper uses a...
- Tags: Algorithm, McGill University, Database Management System, RDBMS, Engineering, Data Mining, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-01-18
- A Content-Based Load-Balancing Router System
- This paper outlines the implementation of a content-based load-balancing service-attached router. The content that special routing is performed on is HTTP traffic. A unique routing protocol is implemented on top of IP which allows for querying and sharing of content-based routing information among a network of such routers. Each router...
- Tags: HTTP, McGill University, Router, Load Balancing, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Web Servers, Networking, Internet
- White papers 2005-12-12
- University Takes to the Air
- Montreal's McGill university originally planned to install network-connectivity jacks in the walls, so that students could plug in their laptops while in public areas. Students, however, did not want to wait in line for computer jacks, and they were not wild about always being tied to a wall. So, McGill...
- Tags: Solution, McGill University, University, WLAN, Colubris Networks Inc., Montreal, LANs, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Construction, Networking
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- The debate over kids and animals
- On the hit list of lead author Dr. Robert Frenck at the University of Cincinnati are exotic cats and raccoons, ferrets, monkeys, Gambian rats, hedgehogs, reptiles, baby chickens and hamsters. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Kid, Flash Memory, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Future wireless networks could be powered by "smart lighting"
- A light bulb went off in the head of researchers at Boston University about a new wireless networking technology, which was very appropriate considering that it involves, well, light bulbs. The Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center has been created to develop technology that would allow low-powered...
- Tags: Network, Light-emitting Diode, Wireless Networking, Wireless Network, Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital
- AMD said Tuesday that it will split off its manufacturing operations in a deal with the Advanced Technology Investment Company of Abu Dhabi. AMD will also receive a capital infusion from Mubadala Development Company, which will wind up owning more than 19 percent of Intel's smaller rival. ...
- Tags: Asset, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATIC, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- MozyPro for Mac goes public beta
- Online backup storage provider Mozy on Tuesday will roll out a public beta for MozyPro for the Mac, a new service for businesses using Apple's Mac platform. MozyPro for the Mac resembles Mozy's business lineup for Windows. It allows online backup for the Mac like its MozyHome...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Public Beta, Backup, MozyPro, Mozy, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- ZDNet blogger: working from home
- More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...
- Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Techies choose Obama - by a landslide
- If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...
- Tags: Landslide, Broadband, Obama, McCain, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?
- According to Canadian engineers at Queen's University, there are now more than 8,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth. Of course, if they stop to work correctly, these satellites will not be able to be repaired from the ground and will become space junk. So these researchers have developed a...
- Tags: Robot, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
- When it comes to China, is Skype the new Yahoo?
- Any major Western company doing business in China is collaborating with the government to some degree. We know this. Chinese citizens know this. The best case scenario is probably Microsoft or Google's operations where access to certain information is limited. The worst case, until now, has been Yahoo's explicit cooperation...
- Tags: China, Yahoo! Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., Tom, Government, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Wireless, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Gadget nostalgia: Five things I had and five things I have now
- Gadget nostalgia: Five things I had and five things I have nowRE: Gadget nostalgia: Five things I had and five things I have nowMy friend, you are correct. Kudos to you, and thanks for the heads-up.I think the slash in the C:/ prompt is backwards...C: instead of C:/ in PC...
- Tags: Keyboards, nostalgia, Gadget nostalgia, C:","ZDDF.DT.29.52609
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Semantic guardians for our computers?
- If your computer has never crashed, it's because it has been built on another planet. The microprocessors we use are faster and more complex year after year, increasing the risks of being hit by 'functional bugs.' This is why University of Michigan (U-M) researchers have started to develop a system...
- Tags: Monitor, Researcher, Computer, Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- News to know: Cloud wars; Apple; Google; China is watching you
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platform. Techmeme A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve? Zack Whittaker:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IPO, Robots, Linux, E-mail, Digital Media, Financial Services, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Chinese monitoring Tom-Skype messages
- China is running a massive operation to track and store text messages sent over Tom-Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese wireless provider and eBay-owned Skype, The New York Times reports. China has about one million censored messages, many of which contain personally identifiable information, according to...
- Tags: Message, China, Monitoring, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Government, Vertical Industries, Web Servers, Security, Servers, Wireless, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Another setback for university P2P
- Another setback for university P2PUm no.They should NOT kill P2P just because a criminal and inept organization wants to subpoena the daylights out of everyone. What they fail to realize is what ever they think they will produce from it will be negated by the fact they cannot conclusively prove...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Another setback for university P2P
- Last week, a federal judge dismissed the University of Oregon's arguments that the RIAA's attempts to obtain information on student file sharers was unduly burdensome. According to Ars Technica, the judge also ruled that the school did not receive protection under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, since none of...
- Tags: P2P, University, RIAA, Litigation, Peer To Peer (P2P), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Business Operations, Internet, Security, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Pterodactyl-inspired flying robots
- According to Sankar Chatterjee, a professor of paleontology at the Texas Tech University in Lubbock TTU, a 225-million-year-old pterodactyl might soon be reborn as a flying robot. The Tapejara wellnhoferi, which lived in Brazil, was a big flying lizard with an unusual 'accessory,' an 8-inch-high fleshy crest stuck straight up...
- Tags: Professor, Texas Tech University, Aircraft, Tapejara, Pterosaur, Aerospace & Defense, Robots, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
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