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DePaul University Transforms Student Services and Support With Case Management System

DePaul University is the largest Catholic university in the nation, enrolling more than 23,000 students. DePaul University wanted to fulfill the university's vision to provide the best customer service and student experience. The challenge was to personalize communications and increase student retention. DePaul University implemented Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Customer Relationship...

Tags: Case Management, Oracle Corp., DePaul University, Marketing Research, Corporate Law, Marketing, Business Operations

Case studies 2008-06-01

SonicWALL Case Study: DePaul University

Chicago-based DePaul University 's IT administrators needed a solution that could ensure that the network, data and the University applications would be secure. The challenge was to provide DePaul's students, administrators and staff with easy-to-use, secure access to any application. They wanted a solution which provided self-remediation so that they...

Tags: DePaul University, SonicWall, VPNs, Ssl/Tls, Network Security, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Security, Networking

Case studies 2007-08-01

TCP Congestion Control

This paper is an exploratory survey of TCP congestion control principles and techniques. In addition to the standard algorithms used in common software implementations of TCP, this paper also describes some of the more common proposals developed by researchers over the years. By studying congestion control techniques used in TCP...

Tags: DePaul University, Congestion, TCP, Tcp/Ip, Networking

White papers 2007-01-01

A Performance Analysis of Gateway-to-Gateway VPN on the Linux Platform

This paper presents a gateway-to-gateway configuration of IPSec-based Virtual Private Network VPN for the enterprise environment. The growing popularity of the high speed internet connection drives the need for cost-effective, secure intranet connections. Traditionally, such connection is provisioned via expensive leased lines or frame relay trunks. This paper presents a...

Tags: DePaul University, Performance, Frame Relay, VPNs, Linux, Performance Management, Networking, Network Security, Telecommunications, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2006-04-15

On Dynamic Optimization of Packet Matching in High Speed Firewalls

Packet matching plays a critical role in the performance of many network devices and a tremendous amount of research has already been invested to come up with better optimized packet filters. However, most of the related works use deterministic techniques and do not exploit the traffic characteristics in their optimization...

Tags: Packet, DePaul University, Optimization, Rejection, Firewalls, Network Security, Productivity, Security, Networking

White papers 2006-03-31

Oracle Case Study: DePaul University

DePaul University, best known for its relationships with its students, was looking for ways to improve the student experience within the decentralized context of a higher education institution. By using Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Online Marketing, the university positioned itself as an entrepreneurial innovator by tailoring the application to a higher...

Tags: Oracle Corp., DePaul University, PeopleSoft Enterprise Online Marketing Solution, Entrepreneurship, Marketing Research, Management, Marketing

Case studies

A Calculus of Untyped Aspect-Oriented Programs

Aspects have emerged as a powerful tool in the design and development of systems, allowing for the encapsulation of program transformations. The dynamic semantics of aspects is typically specified by appealing to an underlying object-oriented language via a compiler transformation known as weaving. This treatment is unsatisfactory for several reasons....

Tags: DePaul University, Aspect-oriented, Semantics, Object-oriented, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development

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The depressing future of the Internet

A brief overview of how the Internet came about: some years ago, some military boffs thought it'd be awesome if computers could talk to each other, so the US could nuke the hell out of other countries without actually being near there. A smart professor from England then came up...

Tags: Security, IPv6, Computer, Flaw, IPv6 Adoption, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Sign language over cell phones in the U.S.

Thanks to University of Washington UW computer scientists, hearing-impaired users might soon be able to use sign language over a mobile phone, like in Japan or Sweden. The research team received a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to start a 20-person field project next year in Seattle. Of...

Tags: Team, Professor, Phone, Cell Phone, Video, UW, MobileASL, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Google journeys to the center of the earth (well not quite) with latest alternative energy foray

Apparently Google's philanthropic arm isn't content investing in just one source of alternative energy, which makes sense considering the geographic diversity of the planet we live on. The search and business applications giant last week said it will put up about $10.25 million toward energy technology called enhanced geothermal systems...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Google Inc., Geothermal Energy, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Office Ultimate 2007 for $16,014,000,000,000

Seriously! A copy of Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for just over $16 quadrillion Zimbabwe dollars. Bargain! I know I sometimes bitch on about Microsoft as being as evil as an al-Qaeda suggestion box, but this time they've excelled themselves. I got a press-release through a couple of...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Office 2.0: 'Conversations' prevent IT failure

Cultural issues are among the key drivers causing acute IT problems. Project failure rates remain high in large part because these drivers are difficult to identify and diagnose. Many organizations accept information silos as a cost of doing business, despite the clear negative impact of these boundaries...

Tags: Information Technology, Project Failure, Office 2.0, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Gold nanoparticles purified air in old churches

Chemists from Queensland University of Technology QUT, Australia, have found that the air in medieval European churches was purified by gold nanoparticles used to paint their stained glass windows. As said the team leader, 'glaziers in medieval forges were the first nanotechnologists.' [This is not completely true: nanocosmetics were used...

Tags: Nanoparticle, Team Management, Nanotechnology, Management, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-08-23

This week's rants

This week's rantsYou've got it.I never tire of Robin Harris telling the world that MS has lost all their data...a classic. Even when he admits other filesystems are worse. Why then MS? Well they are the biggest and deserve to be blamed...so there..pouted Robin in reply to that question. ...

Tags: Linux, Blogging, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Seinfeld

Discussion threads 2008-08-23

Big tech on campus

CNET's Kara Tsuboi visits the University of California, Berkeley, to find out what gadgets students are craving at the start of their school year. CNET Reviews editors Bonnie Cha and Donald Bell also weigh in on their top cell phone, MP3, and laptop picks.

Tags: CNET Networks Inc., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, News, kara tsuboi, iphone, apple, mac book, ipod, school, berkeley, laptop, itunes, imac

Videos 2008-08-22

Virtual economies employ 400,000 people in 2008

In 2008 the virtual game economy employs 400,000 people who earn an average of $145 per month, creating a global market worth about $500 mln, according to Professor Richard Heeks from the University of Manchester. 80% of virtual game workers are based in China. by AM

Tags: Worker, Games, Personal Technology, AM

Blog posts 2008-08-22

Virtual economies employ 400,000 people in 2008

In 2008 the virtual game economy employs 400,000 people who earn an average of $145 per month, creating a global market worth about $500 mln, according to Professor Richard Heeks from the University of Manchester. 80% of virtual game workers are based in China. by AM

Tags: Worker, Games, Personal Technology, AM

Blog posts 2008-08-22

China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'

China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'Learn from M$, Google and YahooThey cooperated with the local bully, they were allowed to run business over there. Don't p*ss of their government, that's the key in China. Yahoo went so far they handed in evidence to China government to help...

Tags: Tibetan family, Han, census, Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2008-08-22

Better networked soldiers

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA has recently given a US$500K award to a computer scientist of the Washington University in St. Louis WUSTL. His research project is called 'Revolutionizing Defense Communications with a Diversified Internet Infrastructure.' Crowley will design a new kind of network for the U.S....

Tags: Network, DARPA, U.S. Department Of Defense, Computer, Productivity, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-08-22

Back to school special: Big thanks to our green tech kids

I have no children so I really can't appreciate the end of August, when the parents I know count down the hours until their offspring heads back to the classroom. But I do remember mourning the bittersweet end of summer in the northeast, when crickets chirp of a summer evening...

Tags: Green Technology, Canon Inc., Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-21