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A Certificate Revocation Scheme for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

The increasing prominence of wireless ad hoc networks is stimulating greater interest in developing adequate security mechanisms for securing applications involving these innovative networks paradigms. Adapting wired network security schemes-particularly those involved digital certificates-to wireless ad hoc networks environments, poses many difficulties, primarily for two reasons: the limitation of computational...

Tags: McGill University, Network, Wireless, Certificate Revocation, Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-01-01

MindHabits (Windows)

MindHabits offers players simple and fun exercises that can help them maintain a more positive state of mind. It is based on more than a decade of social intelligence research conducted at Montreal's McGill University by a team led by Dr. Mark Baldwin.

Tags: McGill University, Games, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2008-11-18

The VPN Conjecture Is True

Robustness has become one of several paradigms used to address data uncertainty in optimization. While the input data may not be known perfectly, it assumes that each input comes from some known bounded region or universe of legal inputs. Robust optimization then seeks an optimal solution that is valid for...

Tags: VPN, McGill University, Optimization, VPN Conjecture, Robustness, Networking

White papers 2007-12-14

Optimizing Voice-Over-IP Speech Quality Using Path Diversity

In last few years, Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP has been gaining popularity as an alternative to traditional telephone by transmitting voice signals as packets over the Internet and private IP-based networks. However, voice packets experience loss, delay, and delay variation, which require buffering, playout scheduling and loss concealment at...

Tags: McGill University, IP, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking

White papers 2006-06-30

Web Portal Design Guidelines as Identified by Children Through the Processes of Design and Evaluation

The Web is an important source of information for school projects, but young users do not always find it easy to locate relevant material. A critical factor in success is the portal through which they search or browse web content. Traditionally web portals have been designed by adults with young...

Tags: McGill University, Web Portal, Portals, Web Technology, Internet

White papers 2006-05-25

Data Mining Using Relational Database Management Systems

Software packages providing a whole set of data mining and machine learning algorithms are attractive because they allow experimentation with many kinds of algorithms in an easy setup. However, these packages are often based on main-memory data structures, limiting the amount of data they can handle. This paper uses a...

Tags: Algorithm, McGill University, Database Management System, RDBMS, Engineering, Data Mining, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

White papers 2006-01-18

A Content-Based Load-Balancing Router System

This paper outlines the implementation of a content-based load-balancing service-attached router. The content that special routing is performed on is HTTP traffic. A unique routing protocol is implemented on top of IP which allows for querying and sharing of content-based routing information among a network of such routers. Each router...

Tags: HTTP, McGill University, Router, Load Balancing, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Web Servers, Networking, Internet

White papers 2005-12-12

Pothter 1.0b2 (Mac)

An Applescript to present a user friendly dialog for posting the contents of a folder to Usenet via the Thoth newsreader client. Warnings are given if conventions used in the alt.binaries.mac heirarchy are not followed. User option to modify the text of the subject line.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, McGill University, Warnings, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2003-01-16

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Survivor Buddy, a friendly robot rescuer

The St. Petersburg Times, Florida, reports that a well-known robot designer, Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida USF, 'plans to add a heart to robot rescuers.' As says USF, the goal is to develop 'a robot that will be a companion...

Tags: Details, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-17

WHO dat going to stop health care innovation?

This week, in Geneva, a series of meetings have been taking place which, industry claims, could kill health care innovation in its tracks. (That's the World Health Organization logo at right.) The World Health Organization's Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property IGWG meeting in...

Tags: Attitude, Benefits, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn, Enterprise Software, Health Care, Healthcare, Human Resources, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Management, Research & Development, Software, Strategy, Vertical Industries

Blog posts 2007-11-09

The paradise of infinite music

Make that "Ever-receding paradise. . . ." “The Paradise of Infinite Storage” was the title of a panel at the “Pop [Music] and Policy” conference at McGill University in Montreal. Great title, so I downloaded it. . . . Princeton Professor Ed Felten was on...

Tags: Apple iPod, Infinity, Storage, Music, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-10-14

A new way to print bones

Good old ink jet printers are really versatile machines. Last week, I told you they will be used to print organic transistors. Now, Canadian and German researchers are using a slightly modified version of the printer that sits on your desk to build three-dimensional bioceramic bones. They took "advantage of...

Tags: Printers, Document management, printer, bone, room temperature, three-Dimensional, printing

Blog posts 2007-03-18

Facing student protest, high school slows down on plagiarism plan

In September, high schoolers at Virginias McLean High School launched a rebellion. They formed a "committee for student rights" and objected to the schools plans to require students to submit papers to TurnItIn. See Kids dont want to turn it in. In response, eSchoolNews reports, the school has...

Tags: Turnitin.com

Blog posts 2006-10-05

College men in danger of 'full tilt'

The popularity of Internet gambling has exploded in recent years, luring many college students to fritter away their tuition and more, striving to stay in the game. For incoming freshman, online poker is as common as beer, and some students even play Texas Hold 'Em, the most popular game,...

Tags: poker, Greg Hogan

Blog posts 2006-06-14

Transcription of interview with Microsoft identity architect Kim Cameron

In addition to finding out that a megamerger happened while you were gone, there's nothing like coming home from a vacation to find out that someone else has not only volunteered to do some work that was on your to-do list, but they went ahead and did it....

Tags: David Berlind, Microsoft Corp., Opera Software ASA, podcast, transcription

Blog posts 2005-04-25

Enterprise Application Development Using PHP and Oracle

At McGill University's (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) Department of Development and Alumni Relations, the authors are in the process of moving extensive, multifaceted services for 200 to 300 paid and volunteer staff and up to 160,000 alumni and donors to the Web using an industrial-strength PHP application and Oracle9i. It is...

Tags: Oracle Corp., PHP, Enterprise Application, Scripting Languages, Enterprise Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software

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