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A new career: isotope designer

According to a Michigan State University MSU news release, 'Made-to-order isotopes hold promise on science's frontier,' nuclear physicists can now start a new career as isotope designers. These scientists can build specific rare isotopes to solve scientific problems and open doors to new technologies. The lead researcher says this approach...

Tags: Michigan State University, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Professional Development, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Career, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-10

Contracts and Middleware for Safe SOA Applications

This position paper concerns formal methods for developing safe Service-Oriented Architectures SOAs with support for resource management. The paper seeks an approach to building such SOAs based on the specification of service requirements as declarative contracts, and the enforcement of these contracts at the level of the middleware. Using hierarchical...

Tags: Michigan State University, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-01-01

Energy Savings by Intelligent Interface Idling in 802.11 Based Wireless Networks

This paper proposes and analyzes a new interface idling mechanism for improving carrier-sense energy expenditure of IEEE 802.11 based wireless network interfaces. A novel protocol state analysis technique is developed for detecting time windows during which a node consumes energy due to erroneous carrier sensing. During this window, energy savings...

Tags: IEEE 802.11, Network, Window, Michigan State University, Wireless Network, Wireless, Energy Saving, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Wireless LANs, Construction

White papers 2007-10-29

The Impact of Video Streaming on Mathematics Performance

Video streaming is an Internet-based, video-on-demand process in which a streamed file is simultaneously downloaded and viewed without creating a physical file (Reed, 2001). Streamed video has numerous classroom advantages. For example, files need not be stored on a hard drive, schools receive a substantial and constantly updated video library...

Tags: Performance, Michigan State University, Streaming Video, Video, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, Video On Demand (VoD), Marketing, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

White papers 2007-05-29

Oracle Label Security - Best Practices for Government and Defense Applications

Units that accept payment (credit/debit) cards ("Merchant Units") must comply with this document and all the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS requirements. Some of the PCI DSS requirements only apply to certain card processing environments. Therefore, the University has defined two types of card processing environments, based...

Tags: Security, Card, Payment, Oracle Corp., Environment, Compliance, Michigan State University, Government, Best Practice, PCI, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-01-17

An Autonomous Robotic Fish for Mobile Sensing

In this paper an innovative approach to robotics education is reported, where hands-on learning is integrated with cutting-edge research in the development of an autonomous, biomimetic robotic fish. The project aims to develop an energy-efficient, noiseless, untethered swimming robot for mobile sensing purposes. The robot is propelled by an Ionic...

Tags: Robotics, Mobile, Wireless Communication, Michigan State University, Robots, GPS, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2006-02-14

Best Practices in Disposal of Computers and Electronic Storage Media

At some point in the life cycle of a computer its owner will decide to dispose of the equipment. When this occurs, it is important to take action to ensure that confidential or sensitive information is not revealed to the eventual recipient of the equipment. The same issues apply to...

Tags: Storage Media, Michigan State University, Storage, Equipment, Best Practice, Computer, Backups

White papers 2005-11-23

Can Soft Biometric Traits Assist User Recognition?

Biometrics is rapidly gaining acceptance as the technology that can meet the ever increasing need for security in critical applications. Biometric systems automatically recognize individuals based on their physiological and behavioral characteristics. Hence, the fundamental requirement of any biometric recognition system is a human trait having several desirable properties like...

Tags: Trait, Michigan State University, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Tools & Techniques, Leadership, Security, Management

White papers 2004-10-21

Biometrics: A Grand Challenge

AFIS systems have been providing terrific value to the society by using a good integration of automatic and manual processes. The scope of this paper is intended to expand the frontiers of the state of the art biometric technology performance for their effective widespread deployment. This paper explores the fundamental...

Tags: Michigan State University, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Roi/Tco, Security, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2004-08-01

Hiding Fingerprint Minutiae in Images

This paper introduces an application of steganography and watermarking to enable secure biometric data (e.g., fingerprints) exchange. The fingerprint minutiae data had to be hidden in a host image, which can be a synthetic fingerprint image, a face image or an arbitrary image. It is this carrier image that is...

Tags: Michigan State University, Image, Carrier

White papers 2002-02-01

Additional Resources

Wave disk engines to make hybrid vehicles cheaper, more efficient

Researchers from Michigan State University and the Warsaw Institute of Technology are developing a wave disk engine and electricity generator that promises to be five times more efficient than traditional auto engines in electricity production, 20% lighter, and 30% cheaper to manufacture. by Chris Jablonski

Tags: Disk, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Navicat for MySQL 8.1.5 (Mac)

Navicat is an ideal solution for MySQL administration and development. This is an all-inclusive mysql front end provides a powerful graphical interface for databases management, development and maintenance. Easy installation and intuitive interface make it an irreplaceable tool for mysql on the web or your local desktop. Navicat supports all...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, MySQL, Navicat, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-10-28

Gartner Magic Quadrant lawsuit: Sour grapes or real gripes?

They should join the IIARMichael,Nice post, I agree with your analysis. As a bottom line, I think they should be more professional with their AR programme, maybe join the IIAR [u]http://www.analystrelations.org[/u] to benefit from best practices.See my earlier post on this:http://iiar.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/is-shooting-on-the-referee-productive/Merits of LawsuitWhile Gartner may have its own objectives, I...

Tags: Gartner Inc., IIAR, lawsuit, Sour Grapes, Gartner Magic Quadrant

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

(NASA spacecraft crashes into the moon)

Total Waste of MaterialLets see, we explode a bomb and crash a satellite into the moon to try and confirm whether or not water is on it. And for what purpose? To make another return trip to the moon? To build space colonies? We don't have...

Tags: spacecraft, NASA, Darwin

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

MSU Map 1.0 (Mobile)

MSU Map is a navigation application for college students, faculties, or anyone who is visiting Michigan State University campus. It features locate current user location, complete list of all lecture halls, labs, fields, dorms, and parking locations, choose from walking, driving, public transit directions, and time of arrival features, keyword...

Tags: Mobile, Location, Logical Dimension, MSU Map

Software downloads 2009-09-16

Electric vehicle grants

The feds are giving money to over four dozens industrial and research operations connected with the development of electric cars in the U.S. The total grants are nearly $2.5 billion. This is not like we have a major national commitment to electric cars. The $2.5 billion is...

Tags: Car, Electric Car, Grant, Battery, Electric Vehicle, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-13

Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for education

Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for educationHave the kindles linked to the grade not the student.The way to get around this (not the Amazon eating homework, but the reuse DRM issue) is to have the Kindles for a specific grade. All ninth graders have the same Kindles...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Internet Connectivity, digital-rights management, Amazon.com Inc., homework, education

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

Students create portable device to detect suicide bombers

According to latest reports, improvised explosive devices IEDs, the weapons of suicide bombers, are responsible for about half of soldier casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. To help contain this urgent threat, specialized contractors are being called in to provide services like counter IED training and technologies like...

Tags: Student, Portable Device, Corporate Communications, Handhelds, Networking, Marketing, Hardware, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-06-24

U.S. battery company tries to power up

We all know Micihigan leads the country in unemployment and in dinosaur car companies. Amidst the nostalgia for days go by, some entrepreneurs are pushing for a re-birth. An Ann Arbor start-up is wanting to a big in the world of batteries. Sakti3 has backing...

Tags: Battery, Department Of Energy, Sakti3, Sakti, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-11

When Americans were well-trained

When Americans were well-trainedExpress RailI like the idea! There is nothing express or high speed about traveling by train today in America. In fact from Michigan where i live I can plan on up to 20 hours to the East with long layovers. I see no reason...

Tags: NYC, Express Rail

Discussion threads 2009-05-07