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Efficient Monitoring of End-to-End Network Properties: It is often desirable to monitor end-to-end properties, such as loss rates or packet delays, across an entire network. However, active end-to-end measurement in such settings does not scale well, and so complete network-wide measurement quickly becomes infeasible. More efficient measurement strategies are therefore needed. Previous work, examining this problem...; Tags: Network, Boston University, Monitoring, Networking; White papers 2007-12-01
Scalable Coordination Techniques for Distributed Network Monitoring: Emerging network monitoring infrastructures capture packet-level traces or keep per-flow statistics at a set of distributed vantage points. Today, distributed monitors in such an infrastructure do not co-ordinate monitoring effort, which both can lead to duplication of effort and can complicate subsequent data analysis. The paper argues that nodes in...; Tags: Technique, Network, Boston University, Monitoring, Distributed Network, Network Monitoring; White papers 2007-12-01
Graded Channel Reservation With Path Switching in Ultra High Capacity Networks: As a result of the existing limitations of TCP/IP, significant efforts have been devoted to develop an alternative protocol stack based on the concept of advanced channel reservation, that is specifically tailored for large file transfers and other high throughput applications. This protocol stack is not intended to replace TCP/IP...; Tags: Network, Boston University, Graded Channel Reservation, Tcp/Ip, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2006-09-06
Wireless Ad Hoc Discovery of Parking Meters: Locating a suitable parking spot is a common challenge faced by millions of city-dwellers every day. As common is the revenue generation by fee and fine collection in these municipalities. Wireless ad hoc networking technologies offer a new and efficient means to both simplify the process of parking and find...; Tags: Solution, Boston University, Wi-Fi, GPS, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; White papers 2005-08-16
Boston University's College of Engineering Simplifies Management of Complex Data Center: The Boston University's College of Engineering includes 37 research centers and labs in which some 3,000 students, faculty, staff, and affiliates create and share large, complex data files and run compute-intensive applications. In 2005, the college's IT team resolved to make a change. They needed something easier to manage, but...; Tags: Data Center, Boston University, NetApp, College Of Engineering, Storage, Hardware; Case studies

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NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship: NASA officials recognized last week that dead bodies were used to develop Orion landing systems. According to NASA, 'three human bodies were used in the tests at Ohio State University Medical Center' in 2007. Even if the results of the experiments helped NASA, one of its spokesman said that the...; Tags: NASA, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Google opens Knol website, a wiki with bylines: In a direct challenge to the popular Wikipedia, Google opened Knol, an encyclopedia-like wiki site that requires writers to post their names and expertise. SAN FRANCISCO--Google opened its website Knol to the public on Wednesday, allowing people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a...; Tags: Google Inc., DuPont Co., Web Site, Wikipedia, Knol, Wiki, Online Communications, Reuters, Google, encyclopedia; News items 2008-07-24
75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws: In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...; Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Is this the New Apple?: PowerPage podcaster Youngmoo Kim relays his experience with trying to get an iPhone 3G and on being an "IRU" Individual Responsible User. Apple just doesn't want me to have an iPhone 3G. After a few half-hearted attempts bailing at the sight of long lines, I spent about two hours...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., IRU, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-22
10 hard drive disasters: Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard drives, according to a data recovery company. Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard...; Tags: Hard Drive, hard drives, data recovery, Dan Ilett, Silicon.com; News items 2008-07-22
Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries: Updated: Apple on Monday reported fiscal third quarter earnings of $1.07 billion, or $1.19 a share, on revenue of $7.46 billion, well ahead of Wall Street estimates as Mac sales continued to surge. However, Apple lowered its outlook and failed to allay concerns about CEO Steve Jobs' health. ...; Tags: Revenue, Apple iPhone, Job, Apple Macintosh, Health Care, Apple Inc., Steve, Operational Accounting, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-21
The key barrier to health care reform: The key barrier to health care reformReducing residenciesHey, at least Georgia [b]has[/b] residencies. Arizona's University Hospital has, thanks to Andrew Weil, turned all of its general practice residencies into NCCAAM-funded "alternative health care" training programs.If you think it's bad now, wait until your insurance only covers "therapeutic touch" and...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, barrier, health care, residency, physician; Discussion threads 2008-07-21
Towards low-cost LED lighting: You all know that incandescent bulbs are pretty inefficient, converting only 10% of electricity into light -- and 90% into heat. Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, could soon replace incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs in our homes. They are more efficient and environmentally friendly. But LED lights are currently too expensive...; Tags: Purdue University, Silicon, LED Lighting, Light-emitting Diode, Silicon Substrate, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-07-20
Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.: Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.I guess the video maker is contesting that the polar ice isnt meltingntHe showing that you're dumber than dirtYou don't even realize that the ice displaces more volume than liquid water and the melting makes the...; Tags: wind energy, neighborly concern, ice, thin air; Discussion threads 2008-07-19
Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions: Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictionsProxies"By using a proxy, you can bypass any filtering software on the network"Only if they're incompetent. I work for a company that has hardware that a proxy wouldn't get around the rules, even if it's SSL.Your statement about proxies is wrong.If the university simply sets a...; Tags: INTERNET, Workforce management, Untrustworthy student, Untrustworthy; Discussion threads 2008-07-18
Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja: Update: It would seem that Richard Stiennon agrees with me on the concept of a group of experts to advise, also on keeping away from spending ridiculous amounts of money. Cyber-terrorism... ah, what a fancy buzz word that is. Defined on Wikipedia as: "The premeditated use...; Tags: John McCain, Cybersecurity, Security, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-18
Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions: You know the drill. You spend thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars on higher education at your college or university of choice. But when you go to use your Internet connection or a public computer on campus, you login and it's locked down so tight, you can barely...; Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Network, IT Administrator, Operating System, Web Site, Computer, Productivity, Web Site Development, Networking, Internet, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-07-18
Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspects: Well, eight days, and a joint effort to help prevent phishing and two major arrests related to identity theft, and I feel like we've made a decent attack on the identity theft culture. Score one for the good guys for once. Just a day after reading...; Tags: Arrest, eBay Inc., Romania, Romanian, Phishing, Identity Theft, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-17
Open source college revolution?: Open source college revolution?Blackboard NG "Next Generation"Keynote speaker Blackboard CEO Michael Chasen demonstrated the power and direction of Blackboad NG at today's afternoon session of Blackboard World '08 in Las Vegas.TRULY a Next Generation product that makes any institution's 'learning' go everywhere.+ It will now wrap Moodle & Satai.+ Courses...; Tags: Angel Learning, Moodle & Satai, open source; Discussion threads 2008-07-17
Technology that powers Olympics on Web at center of lawsuit: updated: Could your online video experience with the Summer Olympics games be in jeopardy? Silverlight, Microsoft's rival to Adobe's Flash for Video and the technology powering the online video coverage of the games, is the subject of a lawsuit filed by Gotuit Media, a suburban Boston company...; Tags: Web, Lawsuit, Online Video, Video, Gotuit, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-07-16