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SASHA: Toward a Self-Healing Hybrid Sensor Network Architecture: For widespread adoption of sensor technology, robustness in the event of abnormal behavior such as a network intrusion, or failures of components or nodes is critical. Current research on robust and resilient sensor networking is focused on specific tasks - secure broadcast, secure aggregation, secure localization or fault-tolerant feature extraction....; Tags: Portland State University, Network, Sensor, Network Architecture, Networking; White papers 2008-01-01
Implementing a Low Power TDMA Protocol Over 802.11: A wireless network of remotely located, self-powered video sensors must make efficient use of limited network capacity and power. An ideal media-access protocol for such network would fully utilize available throughput while using no more power than necessary and maintaining a reasonable level of fairness. To accomplish these goals, this...; Tags: Portland State University, IEEE 802.11, TDMA, Protocol, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Corporate Communications, Marketing; White papers

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
US hosts VoComp to promote open source voting systems: After all the brouhaha over tamper-proof voting machines, the U.S. government has decided to sponsor a competition amongst university researchers to create the best open-source voting system, reports Wired News.The three-day University Voting System Competition in Portland, Ore., July 16-18, has invited teams of researchers from the U.S., Canada, Poland...; Tags: Elections; Blog posts 2007-07-16
Social networking cha cha and the land grab: The social Web has finally arrived. The question is where is it going. What Facebook, MySpace, Linked In, Xing YouTube, Xanga, Bebo, etc. and their fossilized antecedents from the late 20th century germinated has reached adolescence. Right now its a big cha cha, with everybody joining the dance, dancing...; Tags: General, Web Technology, Social networking; Blog posts 2007-03-05

Teachers blogging!: So teachers are learning to blog. Some in the classroom, some for professional development. But as this Washington Post article reports, teachers - who are often in their 20s, after all - are using blogs for personal expression and, among other things, they're expressing frustration at teaching. Last...; Tags: blog; Blog posts 2006-04-04
FBI: We're not worried about terrorist cyberattack: FBI: We're not worried about terrorist cyberattackWalk Softly & Carry a Big StickDon't JawJack. Just Shut-up & Show Me.Famous Last WordsWasn't it the Oracle dude who declared that his system was "hacker proof" a few years back? Didn't his system get hacked within a few days of that...; Tags: Federal government, FBI, terrorist cyberattack; Discussion threads 2005-12-07
Govt. open source conference in October: The Government Open Source Conference is taking place Oct. 13-14 in Portland. Here's what the organizers say: OSCON's inaugural event is a response to the growing interest in the public sector to Open Source. State and Local government managers are pressed to...; Tags: open source; Blog posts 2005-09-14

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