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- Displaying handheld data on a table
- When Dan Olsen, a professor of computer science at Brigham Young University BYU, was on sabbatical last year at Microsoft Research, he got a bright idea. He realized that even a laptop was too heavy to carry for him, and that a handheld computer was powerful enough to handle the...
- Tags: Application, Handheld, Brigham Young University, Circuit, Computer, Brigham Young University Team, Handhelds, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- Evaluation of ESX Server Under CPU Intensive Workloads
- Virtual machines are used by IT departments to provide better hardware utilization and to isolate users and programs from each other. The paper explores how configuration changes affect the throughput of virtual machines hosted on ESX Server during CPU intensive workloads. In particular the paper explores how Hyper-Threading, Virtual SMP,...
- Tags: HyperThreading, Brigham Young University, VMWare ESX Server, CPU, Virtual Machine, Multi-threading, Virtual SMP, Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2006-09-06
- Morphine relief without addiction?
- Morphine has been used as a painkiller for decades, if not centuries. Unfortunately for patients, morphine is also an addictive substance. Now, Brigham Young University BYU chemists are using a vine plant that grows in Australia to develop a new painkilling molecule, but with fewer side effects. The Deseret Morning...
- Tags: Brigham Young University, molecule, vine
- Blog posts 2006-08-20
- 3-D software for 'virtual surgery'
- Computer scientists at Brigham Young University BYU have developed a new software tool to perform 'virtual surgery.' This tool, dubbed 'Live Surface,' will allow surgeons to visualize in 3-D any part of a patient's anatomy with just a few clicks of a mouse. Similar software already exist, but as reports...
- Tags: Brigham Young University, Live, Live Surface, William S. Barrett
- Blog posts 2006-08-01
- Where Do Transactions Come From? - A Network Design Perspective on the Theory of the Firm
- The goal in this paper is to explain the location of transactions and contracts in a larger system of production. The paper first characterizes the system as a network of tasks and transfers. While transfers between agents are necessary and ubiquitous, the mundane transaction costs of standardizing, counting, valuing and...
- Tags: Transaction, Theory, Network, Brigham Young University, Network Design, Networking
- White papers 2006-05-11
- Adobe Systems Case Study: Brigham Young University
- Brigham Young University BYU is located in Provo, Utah, and serves 30,000 full-time students with 11 colleges and 1,600 full-time faculty. BYU needed a time and cost-efficient way to reconfigure large lecture classes so that they were more engaging, relevant and personal. The university implemented a strategy that has focused...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Brigham Young University, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
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- 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
- My Awesome IT Job: Senior security engineer, VoIP carrier
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from IT pros that love their work. "I...
- Tags: Network, Information Technology, Hobby, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Security, Networking, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- 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
- (Photos: Grand dams of the South)
- (Photos: Grand dams of the South)damn tourHow can you do a writeup of a damn tour without stealing lines from National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation movie?!! Ok, here's a quote from the tour guide..."Welcome everyone, I'm your dam tour guide Arnie. Im about to take you through at fully functional...
- Tags: photograph, OK Here
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble (exe)
- Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble is the game where good girls get better by being bad. Welcome to 1920s Brigiton, USA. This fantastical little town is the home of wily young girls, steadfast boys, and small-minded adults. Here you will gather your gang in the days of Mae West,...
- Tags: Cigarette, Girl, Mousechief, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 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
- In America money is life
- In America money is lifeWhat a crock[i]while the U.S. is both rich and powerful, it is “woefully behind when it comes to providing opportunity and choices to all Americans to build a better life.”[/i] OK, let me get this straight. There is someplace else in the world that...
- Tags: Warm-Weather, Woody Allen
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- In America money is life
- We're becoming a nation of young minorities serving aging, rich white folks who die before their clients. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: U.S., Life, Income, Health Care, Liberals, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- 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
- Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter
- Owen Thor Walker, a 18 years old ringleader of an international cybercrime group, known as AKILL, part of the A-Team, a group of 8 script kiddies which were all caught in a operation called "Operation Bot Roast II" bust executed by the FBI and several international law enforcement agencies in...
- Tags: Job, Malware, Bot, Malware Bot, PRIVMSG, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Adeona offers independent stolen laptop tracking
- Sorry: hit "post" instead of "save"; this backend system will be the death of me. I first came across Adeona last year when I was doing some external research, and it's only really just come to light. Adeona is an independent system which doesn't rely on any...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Device, Laptop Computer, Adeona, Apple Mac OS X, Biometrics, Linux, Desktops, Notebooks, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- European telcos squeal: should we care?
- One of the ongoing discussions among the Irregulars centers around telecommunications costs. Many of us travel internationally and bemoan the astronomical sic charges we're forced to pay by telecoms operators. Earlier today, I saw a statement from the GSMA, a global trade group for the industry arguing...
- Tags: Mobile, Industry, Telephony, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telecom & Utilities, Regulations, Telecommunications, Networking, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Government, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
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