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TFRC Veno: An Enhancement of TCP Friendly Rate Control Over Wired/Wireless Networks: TFRC is a TCP-Friendly Rate Control protocol based on TCP Reno's throughput equation. It is designed to provide optimal service for unicast multimedia flow operating in the wired Internet environment. However, in wireless networks, TFRC, same as TCP Reno, suffers significant performance degradation. This paper proposes to make use of...; Tags: Network, Nanyang Technological University, Equation, TCP, Wireless Network, TFRC, Tcp/Ip, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking; White papers 2007-09-02
Online Research and Project Management Solutions Generate New Ideas and Protect IP: Nanyang Technological University NTU is a research-intensive tertiary institution working in science and technology. Nanyang Technological University NTU takes innovative approaches to education and research. It wanted to build on its existing e-learning platform to heighten learning and communication, by addressing these gaps: Lack of a tool to enable students...; Tags: Project Management, Nanyang Technological University, IP, Microsoft Corp., E-learning, Productivity, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Servers, Processors, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components; Case studies 2007-04-26
Admission Control in IEEE 802.11e Wireless LANs: Although IEEE 802.11 based Wireless Local Area Networks WLANs have become more and more popular due to low cost and easy deployment, they can only provide best effort services and do not have Quality of Service QoS supports for multimedia applications. Recently, a new standard, IEEE 802.11e, has been proposed,...; Tags: Nanyang Technological University, WLAN, IEEE, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking; White papers 2005-05-09
Nanyang Technological University Enrolls Intel Solution Services to Set the Direction for e-Learning: Growing use of e-Learning applications by the Nanyang Technological University's 3,000 faculty and staff members, 25,000 undergraduate and graduate students, and fast-rising number of alumni was pushing the university's RISC architecture - based IT infrastructure to its limits. Yet the school was planning to increase the use of e-Learning applications...; Tags: Nanyang Technological University, Intel Corp., E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies

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Your computer as your singing coach: Israeli researchers have developed an electronic ear to coach vibrato technique. Until now, the quality of a vibrato -- the pulsating change of pitch in a singer's voice -- could only be judged by voice experts. Now, a Tel Aviv University research team 'has successfully managed to train a computer...; Tags: Researcher, Quality, Teacher, Computer, TAU, Productivity, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-07-05

LineRider releases a Silverlight 2 version: Silverlight games are starting to appear. Today a press release went out announcing that Cynergy had worked on a Silverlight version of LineRider. A couple of notable things. The game is very popular. During the beta stage the game got a lot of traction and had over 46 million page...; Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, LineRider, Games, Personal Technology, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-07-02
Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency: They're even talking about it on the radio now--can Detroit automakers survive? If you listened to this show on NPR the future of Chrysler is south of bleak. Ford and GM may just be bigger and have more blood to lose. The local Detroit paper's headline: auto sales...; Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Automobile Company, Plug-in, Fuel Cells, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-07-02
Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain: Larry Dignan pours lukewarm water on Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset. Talking about Google's near monopoly in the search market, Larry says: Microsoft can reinvent search, but it's still running up a natural Google monopoly. The analogy here is Windows: Microsoft didn't have the best operating system on the planet....; Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Wiki, Document Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Speech Recognition, Channel Management, Search, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Investment, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-07-01
News to know: Oracle's Q4; Bill Gates' last day; Sticking with XP: News to know: Oracle's Q4; Bill Gates' last day; Sticking with XPIn retrospect......no one will ever be able to deny the legacy that Bill Gates will leave behind.All criticisms and vitriol aside from opponents and corporate rivals, Gates is easily one of the great pioneers of Information Technology.We lesser mortals...; Tags: Servers, Oracle Corp., Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP; Discussion threads 2008-07-01
Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer: So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...; Tags: Thinking Machines, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Astronaut, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-01
About that cellular interference...: So... maybe it is a real problem. Pedram Amini top picture on the right, noted researcher and reverse engineer, posted an article to the Tipping Point DVLabs blog on some interesting observations he made on cellular interference. From the article, Pedram comments on the discovery: "I had...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Researcher, Laptop Computer, Pedram Amini, Keyboards, Notebooks, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Google curbs essay-writing service advertisements: Corporations over time gain social responsibility for the products they release: Microsoft and their report abuse features, Facebook and their privacy settings, and now Google are adding more to the list. I spoke some time ago about plagiarism, more on a positive note, considering the use of...; Tags: Google Inc., Essay, Advertisement, Plagiarism, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-06-30
Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 1: USA: Eek, from Slashdot today: The FBI has confirmed to Popular Mechanics that it's not only adding palm prints to its criminal records, but preparing to balloon its repository of photos, which an agency official says 'could be the basis for our facial recognition.' It's all part of a new...; Tags: FBI, Privacy, Washington Post Co., Slashdot, Government, Federal Government, Security, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-06-30
Your correspondence so far: It's been just over a month now since I started writing here, and it's certainly been an interesting one. I've had many emails over the last month asking me this, that and the other, not even a single death threat yet! I'd like to share some questions and my answers...; Tags: Web Server, Operating System, Server, Microsoft Corp., Q., E-mail, Web Servers, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Online Communications, Internet, Software, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-06-29
Cell phones tracking nightlife activity: A Columbia University computer science professor has co-founded a New York-based company named Sense Networks to sell tracking software to other companies. It is also distributing a free version of this software named Citysense, which shows on your cell phone where the wild things are happening in your own town....; Tags: Application, Phone, Columbia University, Cell Phone, Macrosense, GPS, Cellular Phones, Sales Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-06-29
Biometric IDs for African penguins?: University of Bristol researchers have developed a non-intrusive visual surveillance system for wildlife habitats. They've used their system to monitor the behavior of 20,000 African penguins on Robben Island in South Africa. By definition, conventional tagging techniques can only monitor animals which have been tagged. On the contrary, the 'Penguin...; Tags: Chest, Monitor, Researcher, Camera, Species, African, Image-recognition System, Monitors & Displays, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-06-28
Bill Gates bids a teary farewell to Microsoft: Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft, the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company. Redmond, Washington--Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft, the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company based on the ambitious...; Tags: Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management, Reuters, Microsoft; News items 2008-06-27
Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadership: Many large-scale government technology initiatives are failing due to an exodus of qualified systems engineers away from the public sector to private industry. An in-depth analysis of the problem conducted by the National Research Council reveals the considerable impact of this problem. The...; Tags: Leadership, Systems Engineering, Computer, CAD, Productivity, Software, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-06-27
Security researchers hack the London underground train for free ride: A group of Dutch security researchers were able to clone the "smartcards" that commuters use to pay fares in the London Underground system, allowing the group to ride for free. This is an interesting attack vector that I actually talked to Adam Laurie about when I was at Black Hat Amsterdam. ...; Tags: Card, Smart Card, Researcher, London, Smart Cards, Security, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-06-26
U.S. tech sector jobs show strong growth, but lack of engineers could hurt in future: U.S. tech sector jobs show strong growth, but lack of engineers could hurt in futureIn other news...IBM, AMD, Intel, Boeing..announce job cutsThese "shortage of engineer" articles are starting to smell fishy when balanced against job cuts and outsourcing news from the same companies that complain about shortages.Why not just cut...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Brother-In-Law, U.S. tech sector job, sector job, U.S. Tech, job, strong growth, H1B; Discussion threads 2008-06-26