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- The George Washington University Reduces Errors and Improves Productivity With Data Controls
- George Washington University wanted to reduce data entry errors and maintain customizations on data entry forms without requiring rewriting of code with each upgrade or patch. The challenge was to ensure security of personal information throughout data processing. George Washington University implemented Oracle Preventive Controls Governor to introduce controls on...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., George Washington University, Data Entry, Customization
- Case studies 2008-10-01
- The George Washington University Delivers Robust, Secure Wireless Network Services Across the Campus
- The George Washington University GW is a private university founded by an Act of Congress in 1821, and is the largest university in the District of Columbia with more than 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students studying business, law, medicine, education, public health, international affairs, engineering, and liberal arts. GW wanted...
- Tags: Network, Juniper Networks Inc., George Washington University, Wireless Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Security
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- GWU Improves Disaster Recovery With Business Continuity
- Created by an Act of Congress in 1821, The George Washington University GWU supports over 70 research centers and institutes and offers comprehensive programs of undergraduate and graduate study as well as degree programs in medicine, law, engineering, education, business and international affairs. The company's challenge was phenomenal growth that...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., George Washington University, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, GWU, It Services
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Predicting Breast Cancer Survivability Using Data Mining Techniques
- This paper presents an analysis of the prediction of survivability rate of breast cancer patients using data mining techniques. The data used is the SEER Public-Use Data. The preprocessed data set consists of 151,886 records, which have all the available 16 fields from the SEER database. The paper has investigated...
- Tags: Algorithm, Technique, Breast Cancer, George Washington University, Decision Tree, Prediction Performance, Data Mining, Productivity, Business Intelligence, Engineering, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing
- White papers 2006-02-14
- Choosing Just the Right Level of Project Management for Small Projects
- This paper defines seven key objectives that are satisfied through the application of project management. These include project priority, duration, complexity, risk, resources, business drivers, and financial. To explore the utility of the model, three sample projects have been identified and analyzed in the model. The samples projects are a...
- Tags: George Washington University, Samples Project, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2005-01-18
- A Framework for Sustainable Port Security
- As the United States attempts to improve the security of the homeland, the thousands of vessels, millions of containers, and millions of passengers entering the country each year have been identified as major sources of vulnerability. This paper is based on the premise that a port is best analyzed as...
- Tags: George Washington University, Security
- White papers 2004-12-21
- George Washington University Reduces Data Warehouse Development Costs Using Informatica
- The George Washington University, independent academic institution, was chartered by the Congress of the United States in 1821. Today, the University's enrollment totals more than 19,000 undergraduate and graduate students in nine schools. The company wanted to build a student data warehouse by consolidating all student information across all campuses....
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Informatica, George Washington University, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
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- National Archives: What, Me Worry?
- National Archives: What, Me Worry?Legitimately do us harm??wtf do u mean"Granular levels of Access" - probably notFor the record so to speak, there is no "National Security Administration". There is the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA - the National Archives) and the National Security Agency (NSA - the communications...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, National Security Archive, National Archives
- Discussion threads 2009-05-26
- National Archives lost 2TB drive from Clinton years
- "The nation's record keeper" - the National Archives and Record Administration - has lost a two-terabyte hard drive containing digital records from Bill Clinton's presidency. In a statement, NARA said that it "takes very seriously the loss of an external hard drive that contained copies of...
- Tags: Security, Agency, NARA, Records Management, Managerial Accounting, Finance, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Judge: Probable cause required for location info
- Yes! A federal judge ruled Friday that the government must have probable cause before ordering cellphone companies to turn over location-identifying data, The Washington Post reports. Only one problem: The decision, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisa Pupo Lenihan, is "very likely wrong" and faces "an uphill battle...
- Tags: Cause, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-14
- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Record labels getting better at detecting P2P
- An article in Ars Technica points to a recent increase in copyright infringement notices being sent to universities. While the Record Industry Association of America RIAA claims that it has not changed its procedures, it did note that record labels are constantly improving their ability to detect peer-to-peer traffic...
- Tags: Ars Technica, P2P, University, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- A geek's trip to Capitol Hill on Network Management
- I appeared before congressional and government staffers on Capitol Hill for a panel on Network Management sponsored by iGrowthGlobal. This was my first time in Washington DC and while it was a little cold for my Californian bones, it was a beautiful city and seeing the capitol of the nation...
- Tags: BitTorrent, Broadband Internet, Cable, Comcast Corp., Corporate Communications, DOCSIS, Geek, George Ou, Internet, Japan, Marketing, Network, Network Management, Networking, P2P, Peer To Peer (P2P), Personal Technology, Presentation, Richard Bennett, Telecommunications, Video, Wireless Network
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- 9th Circuit to decide whether to dismiss NSA spying case against AT&T
- In 2003, Room 641A of a large telecommunications building in downtown San Francisco was filled with powerful data-mining equipment for a "special job" by the National Security Agency, according to a former AT& T technician. It was fed by fiber-optic cables that siphoned copies of e-mails and other online traffic...
- Tags: Internet, San Francisco, AT&T Corp., National Security, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007
- Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007With all due respectsIt's good and rather funny to see them get caught with their knickers down. Hopefully the network will apologize to the attendees sure they will or at least show the outing on one of the news shows.more due respectYou're...
- Tags: Undercover NBC Dateline
- Discussion threads 2007-08-03
- Task force recommends more tools for assessment of nano impact
- As nanotechnology becomes more commonplace in food, drugs and cosmetics, the FDA must revise its regulatory standards to assess the emerging technology, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. An agency task force reported recently that nanotechnology, based on those tiny particles so small that they're measured in billionths of a meter,...
- Tags: Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Governors loved Facebook during election; now their pages gather cobwebs
- Governors are fair-weather friends when it comes to social networks like Facebook and MySpace, Stateline.org has found.A tour via the Internet shows that few of the 39 governors who joined the college Facebook craze, in which “friends” link to “friends” on the social networking site, have bothered to update their...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- George Washington University Law School: Making a Case for Messaging Services
- Established in 1865, the George Washington University Law School is the oldest law school in the District of Columbia, and one of the largest in the country. George Washington Law School had been using a webmail-based email system running on Windows for several years when, in 2001, the supplier decided...
- Tags: George Washington University Law School, Messaging, Messaging Service, Mirapoint Inc., E-mail, Online Communications
- Case studies 2007-07-01
- Stunning Microsoft Labs Photosynth preview
- Stunning Microsoft Labs Photosynth previewStunning what!another lock-in product that works only on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Me2I am at a loss for words...Let me just say here a big and enthusiast WOW!Truely amazing.Of course the bashers will be along soon to tell us they can do it on Linux...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-24
- Heavy demand for IT among DC defense contractors
- The government, federal contractors, even start-ups are hiring IT pros and those just graduating at an impressive rate, The Washington Post reports. If you have an comp sci degree and can pass clearance, you can pretty much write your own ticket these days. A study by the Greater Washington...
- Tags: job, Michael Gagnon, Washington-area, information technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
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