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RE-EM Trees: A New Data Mining Approach for Longitudinal Data

Longitudinal data refer to the situation where repeated observations are available for each sampled individual. Methodologies that take this structure into account allow for systematic differences between individuals that are not related to covariates. A standard methodology in the statistics literature for this type of data is the random effects...

Tags: Methodology, New York University, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2009-05-29

Improving Data Mining Via Noisy Micro-Outsourcing

This work discussed in this paper focuses on problems where it is possible to obtain certain noisy data values ("Labels") relatively cheaply, from on-line micro outsourcing sources ("Non-expert labelers"). A main focus is the strategy of outsourcing to obtain these values as training labels for supervised modeling. (This setting is...

Tags: Data Mining, New York University, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

White papers 2008-11-21

Photos: Plants phone home

A group of New York University postgrad students have developed a system that lets plants convey their needs to people via telephone.

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, New York University, photograph

Image galleries 2007-07-25

Don't Give Up on Distributed File Systems

Wide-area distributed applications often reinvent the wheel for their storage needs, each incorporating its own special-purpose storage manager to cope with distribution, intermittent failures, limited bandwidth, and high latencies. This paper argues that a distributed file system could provide a reusable solution to these problems by coupling a standard interface...

Tags: File System, New York University, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-01-26

Holograms to help nanotechnology

In a very short but intriguing article, Technology Research News TRN writes that researchers from Harvard University and New York University have found a way to use holographic optical traps HOTs to manipulate semiconductor nanowires. As this holographic approach to nano-assembly can allow for simultaneous independent manipulation of multiple nanowires,...

Tags: nanowire, semiconductor, holographic optical trap

Blog posts 2005-11-10

Additional Resources

Google takes Street View off-road; Cast your vote for places to shoot

With Google's Street View imagery, it's easy to fire up the browser and brave a drive through New York's Times Square or cruise down Hollywood's Sunset Strip.  But what about that walking trail that you've been thinking about exploring or even the campus of Stanford University that you'll be visiting...

Tags: Google Inc., Camera, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Anonymity exposed, part deux: Google, ISPs ordered to expose academic dissidents

Canada's York University now has the identities of five or six faculty members who anonymously questioned the academic credentials of a new dean. A Canadian court ordered Google and two ISPs to turn over the information. Does ISP data retention undercut academic freedom? by Richard Koman

Tags: Google Inc., Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-09-14

Works of Albert Einstein. FREE Author's biography & letters in the trial 10.1 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-07

Red Hat: Microsoft taking cloud back to the 80s

Red Hat should feel right at home then because using their software is like using something out of the 80's. I'll prefer a modern company like Microsoft instead of a company based on 30 year old technology such as Red Hat. My theory is that Red Hat is...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, NT-kernel, Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc., Linux, Unix

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Kindle draws fire at Arizona State

According to a brief article in USA Today, students in the honors history of human culture and thought course at Arizona State University will be receiving Kindle ebook readers with the 30 required books for the course pre-loaded. The 30 required books for Humphrey's year-long course usually...

Tags: Student, Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Securing Intellectual Assets With Tripwire Software

Clarkson University, founded in 1896, is an independent technological university in Potsdam, New York, offering majors in the sciences, engineering, liberal arts, health sciences and business. The challenge was to protect intellectual property from potential security breach, to ensure integrity of a heterogeneous server infrastructure with a single solution and...

Tags: Software, Tripwire, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Intellectual Property, Servers, Human Resources, Research & Development, Business Operations, Hardware

Case studies 2009-07-18

NYU researchers create 'invisible flash;' takes photos without glare

Two New York University researchers have created a camera that takes photos with an "invisible flash" of infrared and ultraviolet light to a smarter way to take photos in the dark. NYU professor Rob Fergus and doctoral student Dilip Krishnan created the camera...

Tags: Photograph, Image, Camera, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-17

Improving Patient Care with a High-Performance CampusFabric

The University of Rochester Medical Center URMC, a large medical treatment and research campus in upstate New York, is the university's primary medical facility for education, research, and patient care. Like most healthcare providers, URMC relies on its network to deliver patient services, reduce costs, and make its operations as...

Tags: Patient, High-performance

White papers 2009-06-26

Scientists envision inflatable alternative to tethered space elevator

An inflatable free standing tower could one day carry equipment and tourists 20 kilometers above Earth, and it could be completed much sooner than a cable-based space elevator, say researchers at York University in Toronto, Canada. They envision a giant tower assembled with a series of modules made up...

Tags: Elevator, Kilometer, Team Management, Cable, Nanotechnology, Network Technology, Management, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Emerging Technologies, Networking, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-06-17

U.S. CTO: Infrastructure growth needs private sector investment

The technology backbone of the United States needs a major overhaul and government alone can't do it, the nation's first chief technology officer said today. It's going to take a cooperative effort, including a massive influx of "hundreds of billions" of private capital dollars, for the U.S. to catch up...

Tags: Innovation, U.S., Investment, Government, Leadership, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-11

NYT: Smartphones have become a necessity; more growth expected

How is it that, even in these tough penny-pinching times, sales of expensive smartphones continue to rise? Case in point: the Palm Pre, powered by Sprint, pretty much sold out as soon as it went on sale over the weekend. Who's buying these things? A report in...

Tags: Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Apple Faithful: Arrogance Is Not a Virtue, and Why I Will Never Buy a Mac

I've often been asked why I don't own a Mac. The answer is simple, and yet complex, and requires a trip down memory lane artwork by Spidermonkey David Morgenstern’s column last week about Psystar’s imminent demise and his accompanying “Good Riddance”...

Tags: Software, Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Next Computer, Canon Inc., Fanboy Template Let, Andrew, NeXTStep, Desktops, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-02

LEDs get royal treatment, will they save the planet?

Hey, even Buckingham Palace, seat of the one of the most traditional, old-fashioned, archaic, medaeval institutions--that being British monarchy--has converted to LEDs. Can Congress and Exxon be that far behind? Of course the royal family can do such things by fiat, they need not appeal to investors, lobbyists...

Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-31

IBM win: University will invest in $12.4M green data center

Get this, someone is actually making a capital investment in a new data center! And, a green one at that. We hear today that Syracuse University and New York State plan to use IBM to build a whopping 6,000-square-foot green data center that will use roughly 50...

Tags: Data Center, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-29

Welcome new ZDNet Digital Cameras & Camcorders blogger, Rachel King

I’d like you all to give a warm welcome to ZDNet’s new Reviews blogger, Rachel King. She’ll be joining me here on the Digital Cameras & Camcorders blog, which (as you'll notice from the new name) we're expanding to include regular coverage of digital camcorders and software. ...

Tags: Camcorder, Digital Camera, Camera, Blogger, Rachel King, Blogging, Internet, Janice Chen

Blog posts 2009-05-18