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Conversational Coherence: Using Email Threads to Coordinate Distributed Work

This paper explores the central role of conversational threads in facilitating the ongoing, distributed work of one virtual organization. In studying the electronic mail exchanges of organizational members during one year, we found that they engaged in a range of threading activity to establish and maintain continuity, coherence, and coordination...

Tags: Coherence, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, E-mail, Online Communications

White papers 2006-11-27

Spherical Linear Interpolation for Transmit Beamforming in MIMO-OFDM Systems With Limited Feedback

Transmit beamforming and receive combining can be simply implemented over frequency selective channels by using Multiple-Input Multiple-Output MIMO technology combined with Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing OFDM in what is known as MIMO-OFDM. Generally this requires knowledge of the transmit beamforming vectors for every tone at the transmitter. In systems without...

Tags: Vector, Coherence, Transmitter, University Of Texas, MIMO-OFDM, OFDM, Wireless

White papers 2004-12-29

Additional Resources

Polk Audio RM95

Polk Audio engineers and designers are hip to the fact that everybody wants the smallest possible speakers. Big displays and small speakers are where it's at, and Polk's RM95 home theater five pack comes with four tiny satellites and a very compact center speaker for $600. You add your choice...

Tags: RM95 speaker, Polk Audio RM95, speaker, Polk, satellite

Product reviews 2008-10-03

AbeBooks Inc. Accelerates Information Delivery With Flexible, Extreme Transaction Processing Solution

AbeBooks Inc. wanted to enhance the online customer check-out experience while increasing Web site performance and scalability and ensure continuous data availability and transactional integrity in the event of a server failure. The challenge was to provide fast and reliable access to frequently used information, such as publication inventory data...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Transaction Processing, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet

Case studies 2008-08-01

Squarespace, Inc. Delivers Version 5, a Unique Web Building and Hosting Approach

Squarespace, Inc. wanted to provide a scalable, reliable set-up to support a growing network of Web sites and deliver consistent service to all clients, no matter how large or small the account. The challenge was to minimize technology development and implementation time. Squarespace, Inc. implemented Oracle Coherence to create a...

Tags: Web, Oracle Corp., Client, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Web Technology, Web Servers, Servers, Internet, Marketing, Hardware

Case studies 2008-08-01

Mac and PC are at it again

Mac and PC are at it againBuy Macs and...Use VMWare Fusion to run Windows XP not Vista.Set up VMWare in coherence mode so the few Windows apps appear in the Mac OS X environment.Put 4 GB in EVERY computer. Don't even think of less than 4.Ask every user who they...

Tags: Desktops, PC, Apple Macintosh, X.x

Discussion threads 2008-06-17

The tattered history of OOP

This is a guest blog by frequent contributor Mark Miller - a followup on our earlier discussions of the effectiveness and value of the object oriented programming idea. OOP has been a mixed bag, but I say this only because...

Tags: Message, Software, Object-oriented Programming, Smalltalk, Idea, Data, Object-oriented, Unix, Object, Alan Kay, Way Object-orientation, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-02

When did people forget how to spell? Or complete sentences? Or form thoughts?

When did people forget how to spell? Or complete sentences? Or form thoughts?I think you need some electrolytes.http://www.brawndo.com/;-)Just more proof......that the movie "Idiocracy" is the future of our country.Regression?You fail to take into account that this is just a more accurate reflection of our general population, with a...

Tags: INTERNET, Cellular phones, grammar, English Language

Discussion threads 2008-05-20

SAP's CTO: Business knows 'what', IT knows 'how'

The Naked IT interview series talks with innovators about the evolving relationship between IT and business. Please listen to the audio podcast and enjoy the brief excerpts below. Vishal Sikka is SAP's Chief Technology Officer. Reporting directly to CEO Henning Kagermann, Vishal is responsible for driving...

Tags: CTO, Line Of Business, Information Technology, Packaged Application, SAP AG, Business byDesign, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-04-28

Eclipse launches super run-time project as alternative to Java and .NET

Eclipse launches super run-time project as alternative to Java and .NETEquinox is a great ideea...but I'm wondering if Eclipse has the resources to pull it off. Afterall $un and M$ invested billions before their runtime became usable and accepted.No one trusts IBM...Eclipse has lost the trust of the community at...

Tags: Programming languages, Java development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Middleware, Cross-platform, Java, Eclipse, Equinox, Microsoft .NET

Discussion threads 2008-03-17

UK government sponsoring computer games?

A computer scientist at University College London UCL has developed new algorithms which can quickly add indirect light to computer simulated scenes. According to UCL, 'Dr Jan Kautz has developed a fast method that models the path of light as it bounces off surfaces.' His new algorithms have the potential...

Tags: Algorithm, Computer Game, Computation, Hardware, Graphics, Computer, Graphics Hardware, Government, Productivity, Games, Vertical Industries, Engineering, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-09

Snap-in, Grid-Based Data Integration: IBM Information Server Blade

This white paper, authored by IDC, explores the problems confronting IT organizations today as they seek to bring data together from disparate sources in order to achieve better information coherence, operational efficiency, and more effective overall governance. Specifically, the paper considers the problems posed by the complexity...

Tags: Blade Server, Blade, Server, Grid, Data Integration, IBM Corp.

White papers 2008-02-01

Scalable, Grid-Enabled Service-Oriented Architecture Using Oracle Coherence

One of the greatest benefits of a service-oriented architecture SOA grid is that the cost of scalability is more predictable and efficient because of the option of using commodity hardware. This makes an SOA grid a highly efficient architecture that increases business agility and reliability.

Tags: Oracle Corp., SOA, Grid, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-02-01

Effective Technical Communication

View Available Dates and Locations Learn best practices for authoring effective documents and composing your communications with clarity, relevance, and precision. In this course, you will learn how to prepare documents that clearly and concisely convey technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences. Discover your...

Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., Precision, Clarity, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Training 2008-01-01

Team Coherence (zip)

Team Coherence provides an extensive feature set designed to save time and money through reliable source code control. It enables development teams to automatically protect and track their most valuable source code, documentation, binaries, and all other file types as they change throughout the software life cycle. Versioning features, such...

Tags: Software, Team, Source Code, Team Coherence, Team Management, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2007-12-17

Microsoft, Don't Unify Communications

Thinking about the OCS release yesterday and finally figured out what the heck is bugging me so much. Tell me what you think about this. I love communications. I've tracked VoIP now for 15 years when it was still called "computer telephony". I've got five IM accounts...

Tags: Phone, IM, Communication, Fact, Microsoft Corp., Instant Messaging, Telecom & Utilities, Internet, Online Communications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2007-10-17

Are all 'open' Web platforms created equal?

Are all 'open' Web platforms created equal?facebook open api'sI think open api's are only useful when they become a utility and there is a need for it. In my opinion many of the facebook apps simply do not extend the networks utility simply because they are superfluous and excessive. Google's...

Tags: Channel management, Web 2.0, Microsoft Corp., Web, Web Platform, API, Microsoft Windows Live, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-10-16

Y-Junction Based Addressing in Optical Symmetric Multiprocessor Networks

In a Symmetric MultiProcessor SMP, every processor has its own cache, and all the processors and memory modules are connected to the central interconnect, which is usually a shared bus. As the processors become faster, the central interconnect architecture of traditional SMP's impedes performance because it cannot keep up with...

Tags: Performance, Network, Multiprocessor, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2007-10-01

Why Vista?

I'm working on a head-to-head review of Parallels and Fusion, two competing virtualization packages on OS X, for InfoWorld. As part of that review, I'm doing a Vista install in both to check the experience, resource usage, and so on. One of the cool features of...

Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Phil Windley

Blog posts 2007-09-06

My anti-Mac bias rears its ugly head

My anti-Mac bias rears its ugly headDinosaurs and evolution....In my opinion, Mac is a pretty good OS. But overpriced and closed source. Being closed source ranks it amongst the dinosaurs of the digital age: close to extinction....The future of software is definitely open source.Greetz, Pjotr.OT: Isn't Linux just great? Simple...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, OS X 10.5, Windows skill, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2007-08-10