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- Integrated Mobile GIS and Wireless Internet Map Servers for Environmental Monitoring and Management
- With the progress of mobile GIS technology there is a great potential for adopting wireless communications and Internet mapping services for regional environmental management programs and natural habitat conservation. This paper provides an overview of a NASA-funded research project that focuses on the development of mobile GIS tools and wireless...
- Tags: Internet, Mobile, Wireless Internet, Server, San Diego State University, GIS, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Software, Marketing
- White papers 2005-03-16
- San Diego State University Standardizes Human Resources System
- San Diego State University SDSU, with nearly 34,000 students, is the oldest and largest university in San Diego, the third largest in California, and one of the largest universities in the western United States. The challenges were to implement a pre-release version of a customized Human Resources HR system by...
- Tags: California State University, Oracle Corp., San Diego State University, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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- 9th Circuit to decide whether to dismiss NSA spying case against AT&T
- In 2003, Room 641A of a large telecommunications building in downtown San Francisco was filled with powerful data-mining equipment for a "special job" by the National Security Agency, according to a former AT& T technician. It was fed by fiber-optic cables that siphoned copies of e-mails and other online traffic...
- Tags: Internet, San Francisco, AT&T Corp., National Security, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- PTSD symptoms treated with virtual reality
- Odd as it may seem, doctors are using virtual reality to treat post traumatic stress syndrome among Iraq veterans, The Washington Post reports.Virtual-reality therapy provides doctors with a tool that uses visual, auditory and thermal cues to set the stage for treatment of veterans with the disorder, which causes nightmares...
- Tags: Virtual Reality, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- How to REALLY erase a hard drive
- You may already know that "deleting" a file does nothing of the sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data? No? Then read on. What do you mean "delete" doesn't delete? File...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, IDE, Hard Drive, Disk, Disk Drive, Secure Erase, UCSD, BIOS, Serial ATA, Hardware, Components, Storage, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- A really smart image search engine
- When you search for images on the Web, you use a search engine which relies on the text associated with the pictures -- and not on the images themselves. So the results are sometimes unsatisfactory. But this soon might change because engineers from UC San Diego UCSD have developed new...
- Tags: Social Sciences, Engineering &, Innovation, Computers &, Internet
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- Building better mosquitoes
- Mosquitoes are responsible for epidemics of dengue fever and malaria which strike at least 100 million people worldwide annually. Malaria alone kills at least one million people every year. Many research teams have tried to discover effective and affordable malaria vaccines. Now, the News and Observer writes that a project...
- Tags: malaria
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- Breaking the online community age barrier
- By now, the fact that Google agreed to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion is old news. But theres a lesson I took from it thats not about another community site getting bought for a boat-load of money. I found out about the purchase from an unexpected source, BYUs student newspaper....
- Tags: BYU
- Blog posts 2006-10-09
- Lessons in disaster response from Strong Angel III
- Earlier this month I covered the upcoming Strong Angel III, a six-day test and demonstation focused on innovations around disaster response for local and global catastrophes. The event, hosted by San Diego State University, took place this week, and I talked post-event to program director Eric Rasmussen (at right during...
- Tags: Eric Rasmussen, Strong Angel III
- Blog posts 2006-08-25
- Strong Angel III: Disaster response innovation
- Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy, is leading an effort innovate disaster response in the wake of catastrophies. He is the Director of Strong Angel III, which this month is field testing ways of delivering life-saving humanitarian relief and rapidly deployable communication systems in response...
- Tags: Strong Angel III
- Blog posts 2006-08-14
- Universities rocked by data breaches
- In what can only be called an epidemic of high-profile data security breaches, Ohio University has been hit five times since March 2005, leading to the breach of more than 300,000 student records. The latest theft reveals the precarious state of security at colleges, as institutions attempt to balance the...
- Tags: Ohio University
- Blog posts 2006-06-27
- Birds can be grammatically correct
- A few months ago, I told you about the gift of a parrot for mathematics. Now, American researchers have proven that humble starlings can learn grammar (read these two news releases -- here and there -- for lots of details). It took a month and some food as a reward...
- Tags: starling
- Blog posts 2006-04-28
- The STIENNON Fall Road Show reprinted
- Get the T-Shirt! Or, attend one of these meetings and I will sign your very own copy of the State of Spyware Report! September 15.CSO Executive Discussion Series on Privacy. San Francisco Hilton. September 23 IBM Global Services Breakfast Seminar,Waltham, MA. October 6th. Keynote address at...
- Tags: Hilton Hotels Corp., Hyatt Hotels & Resorts
- Blog posts 2005-09-19
- The STIENNON Fall '05 Road Show
- Get the T-Shirt! Or, attend one of these meetings and I will sign your very own copy of the State of Spyware Report! September 15.CSO Executive Discussion Series on Privacy. San Francisco Hilton. September 23 IBM Global Services Breakfast Seminar,Waltham, MA. October 6th. Keynote address at...
- Tags: Hilton Hotels Corp., Hyatt Hotels & Resorts
- Blog posts 2005-09-12
- ID theft fears as Air Force, public univesities are hacked
- Reuters reports that a hacker used a legitimate password to break into an Air Force database and acquire personal information on 33,000 personnel, about half the Air Force's officers. No financial or military information was located in this particular database. "We're not sure what the person was doing inside...
- Tags: identity theft, Anthony Wood, Air Force
- Blog posts 2005-08-23
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