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- 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, network technology, telecommunications, networking
- White papers 2006-06-30
- 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
- University Takes to the Air
- Montreal's McGill university originally planned to install network-connectivity jacks in the walls, so that students could plug in their laptops while in public areas. Students, however, did not want to wait in line for computer jacks, and they were not wild about always being tied to a wall. So, McGill...
- Tags: solution, mcgill university, university, wlan, colubris networks inc., montreal, lans, wireless lans, wi-fi, wireless, construction, networking
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- Teaching language to robots
- For a project scheduled to end in 2011, Plymouth University researchers will build two robots using software allowing them to interact with each other to exchange learned information like humans. The team will use language-learning techniques designed for children. According to The Engineer, the goal of the project is to...
- Tags: project, concept, neck, belpaeme, robots, emerging technologies, roland piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Sorry, no-can-do, says Tufts
- Tufts University responded last week to a subpoena in yet another file-sharing case by explaining why they could not actually identify the "Does" named in the case. While this is hardly a new argument, the IT department at Tufts did a particularly nice job of refusing politely, with a...
- Tags: dhcp, tufts university, riaa, peer to peer (p2p), networking, internet, christopher dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Six steps to an effective data governance program
- As data governance becomes a key benchmark of a company's responsibility to enhance and protect data, here are six simple steps that start to develop a program based on individual needs. In the past few years, dozens of high-profile incidents involving data mismanagement have gained international attention. Caught off...
- Tags: data, organization, corporate governance, tools & techniques, pricing, databases, business operations, corporate law, management, marketing, enterprise software, software, data management, data governance, mismanagement, steve alder, ibm, special to zdnet
- News items 2008-08-06
- Sensors to detect oral cancer in saliva
- According to the American Cancer Society ACS, there will be about 35,000 new cases of oral cancer in the U.S. this year. The ACS also estimates that 'when oral cancer is identified in its early stages, patient survival rate is almost 90 percent, compared with 50 percent when the disease...
- Tags: university of california at los angeles, team, researcher, protein, sensor, molecule, cancer, protein sensor, dr wong, team management, management, roland piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Vivaty rolls out 'student friendly' development platform
- I've written about Vivaty before, the new add-on to your existing social network, modelling your entire network in three dimensions. Before, they gave you your own blank scene and avatar, allowing you to mix and match your own virtual 3D "profile page" which interacts just...
- Tags: 3d, vivaty studio, party creator, zack whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Today's assignment : Coding an undetectable malware
- Today's dynamic Internet threatscape is changing so rapidly, that the innovations and creativity applied by malware authors can easily render an information security course's curricular on malware outdated pretty fast, or worse, provide the students with a false feeling of situational awareness about today's malware that's driving the entire cybercrime...
- Tags: malware, antivirus software, virus, cyberthreats, spyware, adware & malware, viruses and worms, security, dancho danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista
- The Linux computing crowd smells blood and wants to make a run at Microsoft's Vista operating system. Coinciding with LinuxWorld, IBM, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat issued a joint statement promising "Microsoft free" desktops across the globe. I doubt it...
- Tags: ubuntu, novell inc., red hat inc., microsoft windows vista, microsoft corp., ibm corp., linux, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), unix, operating systems, open source, software, microsoft windows, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Should colleges really teach hacking?
- Should colleges really teach hacking?Bartending SchoolIn the mid-70's I took one of those vocational courses you see advertised on late-night TV: "Learn to be a Bartender in One Week". Although I never used it (I went at night, which takes 2 weeks and over the weekend I got my...
- Tags: food & beverage, security, cyberthreats, tools & techniques, beverage, hacking, chemistry
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Should colleges really teach hacking?
- Newsweek featured an interesting article Saturday about a professor at Sonoma State University who actively teaches his students to create malware and otherwise do the nasty things online that cost companies billions of dollars every year. According to the Newsweek piece, [Professor George]...
- Tags: newsweek, student, ledin, cyberthreats, productivity, security, viruses and worms, hacking, christopher dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- World's first wind-powered vehicle race
- The Aeolus Race will be run in Den Helder, a sea port in the Netherlands, on August 23, 2008. Six European teams will participate to this competition with wind-powered vehicles WPVs. The track is a 5.3 kilometers seawall on the boundary between land and the sea. The students' team at...
- Tags: team, vehicle, aeolus race, ventomobile, team management, management, roland piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- MIT team working on $12 'Apple II' desktop
- Developing nations, listen up: a computer is headed your way, and it costs less than two Value Meals at your nearest McDonald's. Today's Boston Herald has a great story about a new project underway at MIT to create a $12 computer, the same university that spawned the...
- Tags: desktop, team, apple ii, massachusetts institute of technology, apple inc., computer, herald, productivity, team management, management, andrew nusca
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2P
- No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2PSlippery Slope argumentationYep, once they have the monitoring laws in place, next they will want to monitor a whole lot more. It is a trojan horse, but then Joe McCarthy isn't too far away in US history.Of course, Good ol' Joe needed a...
- Tags: anti-p2p, monitoring
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- S. Korea moves to tighten the Net
- Even as China is being roundly criticized for restricting Internet access even for Western journalists during the Olympics, another Asian country is moving to restrict the net. Reuters reports that South Korea is starting to make moves to restrain the Net, as well. The mass access to the Internet,...
- Tags: media, south korea, internet, government, advertising & promotion, vertical industries, marketing, enterprise software, software, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Robot buoy to track oil spills
- Yesterday, Japan Today reported about a prototype of robotic buoy developed at Osaka University to fight sea pollution in the event of an environmental disaster caused by an oil spill. The current prototype, dubbed SOTAB (short for 'Spilled Oil Tracking Autonomous Buoy') is a 110-kilogram GPS-equipped robot. The cylindrical buoy...
- Tags: oil, buoy, robots, emerging technologies, roland piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-03
- Technology top tips for students
- Technology top tips for students11. Buy a Mac and not a Windows PCThe Mac will give you the flexibility to run either Mac OS X and excellent version of UNIX with a great GUI and/or Windows XP or Vista from the same machine. With an inexpensive add-on, it can also...
- Tags: desktops, apple macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- It's official: my broadband nightmare is over
- Beginning today, I proclaim an international day of celebration. Over the course of 31 days, I've been without broadband. It hasn't been without whinging about it at every given opportunity of course. If it wasn't for the close proximity to my university campus and a very...
- Tags: broadband, broadband internet, network technology, telecommunications, networking, zack whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Technology top tips for students
- Jump straight into the deep-end with some money recovering and time saving tips to ensure you get what you need as efficiently as possible. 1. Use your university network to download on-demand television Many universities have very high-end network bandwidth running into the campus....
- Tags: phone, network, tv, printing, document management, networking, wireless, enterprise software, software, finance, managerial accounting, zack whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
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