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Teaching Data Mining: The University of Alabama and SAS

The University of Alabama UA and SAS developed a partnership whereby students who complete a sequence of four graduate-level courses can receive a joint Data Mining Certificate from UA and SAS. Recently, the opportunity to earn this certificate has been made available to MBA students as well. This paper will...

Tags: SAS Institute, University Of Alabama, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2008-12-04

Service-Oriented Architecture, Web Services, XML and Higher Education

Service-Oriented Architecture SOA and Web Services are now making a tremendous impact on the computing world. Many large enterprises, including universities, are using SOA and Web Services to integrate their legacy systems to provide a single unified "Point of data" for users. This paper presents a brief introduction to these...

Tags: Education, Web, Web Service, XML, SOA, University Of Alabama, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-08-01

Object-Oriented Software Specification in Programming Language Design and Implementation

An object-oriented formal specification workbench is proposed for defining the syntax and semantics of programming languages, using which the formal properties of different languages can be elaborated and analyzed. This specification approach is an object-oriented representation structured around a denotational semantics methodology, which abstracts out various common details so that...

Tags: Specification, Programming Language, Semantics, Object-oriented, Programming, University Of Alabama, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Development Tools, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2008-01-01

Wireless Technology and System Integration in Body Area Networks for m-Health Applications

m-Health integrates mobile computing, medical sensor, and communications technologies for mobile health-care applications. Wireless Body Area Networks WBANs of intelligent sensors represent an emerging technology for system integration with great potentials for unobtrusive ambulatory health monitoring during extended periods of time. However, system designers will have to resolve a number...

Tags: Mobile, Network, System Integration, Wireless Technology, Sensor, Health Care, Integration, University Of Alabama, m-Health, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Marketing

White papers 2005-07-13

Additional Resources

Are IT workers sabotaging the office to get ahead?

White collar employees across the nation are trying every and any way possible to get ahead in the office hierarchy -- including trying to sabotage office productivity so they can come to the "rescue" and gain favor and attention. Let's take "Jake." Jake...

Tags: Job, Employee, Jake, Munchausen, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-16

Developing hurricane-proof homes

Engineers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB have developed fiber-based composite materials for low-cost residential coastal housing. Homes built with this material would be able to resist to a hurricane by bending instead of breaking. Other houses could 'simply float on the rising tide of a storm's coastal...

Tags: Bangladesh, Material, Home, Fiber, Nasim Uddin, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-26

Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch?

I walked into an AT&T Wireless store earlier today, eyed the iPhone and picked up some brochures on pricing plans. I've been thinking that the problems with the new iPhone can't last forever - and yet, here's another black eye for Apple and the iPhone. An Alabama woman has filed...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Pricing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspects

Well, eight days, and a joint effort to help prevent phishing and two major arrests related to identity theft, and I feel like we've made a decent attack on the identity theft culture. Score one for the good guys for once. Just a day after reading...

Tags: Arrest, eBay Inc., Romania, Romanian, Phishing, Identity Theft, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Hixardt Technologies Taps Check Point Solutions for SMB and MSP Security Needs

Since IT security is an important part of Hixardt's offering, the company needed a solution that could not only serve the requirements of SMB customers, but could also integrate into Hixardt's management system. This would allow Hixardt to centrally manage the overall IT needs of its clients on a real-time...

Tags: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Small And Medium Business, Hixardt, Smb/Sme, Strategy, Management

Case studies 2008-07-09

Foundry and Q1 Labs Delivers Security Solution to Provide Better Event Management and Network Behavior Analysis

The University of North Alabama serves 7,100 undergraduates as well as graduate students through its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, and Nursing and Health. The University wanted to continue to upgrade the network to support new applications and university initiatives, and allow greater visibility into the network and...

Tags: Security, Foundry Networks Inc., Q1 Labs Inc., Network, Analysis, University Of North Alabama, Networking

Case studies 2008-06-01

Neil Young gives his name to a spider

Canadian rocker Neil Young made headlines this week for appearing at the JavaOne conference and for releasing his musical archive on Blu-ray discs. But he was also honored by a East Carolina University ECU professor of biology, who named a newly discovered trapdoor spider Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi after the legendary rock...

Tags: East Carolina University, Species, Myrmekiaphila, M., Neotype, Blu-Ray, Investment, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Finance, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-09

Earth Day – have a gas

Sample Vulcan map from Purdue & NASA. The folks at Purdue University have come up with a way for us to watch the CO2 emissions across the U.S. Just in time for Earth Day, 2008. It's called Vulcan, and it's going to...

Tags: Emission, Carbon Dioxide, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-04-21

OB Peds Women's Health Notes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide (OBNotes™) (Mobile)

OB Peds Womens Health Notes: Nurses Clinical Pocket Guidepowered by Skyscape Authors: Brenda Walters Holloway, CRNP, FNP, MSN, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama. Cheryl Moredich, RNC, MS, WHNP, Purdue University, Hammond, IN.Kathie Aduddell, Ed, MSN, RN-BC, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GAPublisher: F.A. Davis Company Provides students and clinicians quick...

Tags: Patient, Mobile, Health Care, Skyscape Inc., OB Peds Women, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources

Software downloads 2007-11-11

Is Ron Paul running a botnet spam op?

Ron Paul is supposedly the right-wing answer to Howard Dean - a come-from-nowhere candidate who is taking the Internet faster than fire consumes Southern California. Only, it appears, he's not. Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birgmingham have determined that pro-Paul spam sent after the Republican debate Sunday was...

Tags: Campaign, Wired Inc., Ron Paul, Gary Warner, E-mail, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Spam, Internet, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-10-31

Supercomputing for a mere $800k

Recent price cuts to IBM's previous-generation supercomputer (the Blue Gene/L) have allowed universities and research institutions to invest in supercomputing technology when they would not otherwise be able to justify the cost. While the latest-generation supercomputer, the Blue Gene/P is well over twice as fast as the L, according...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-08-01

Blogger's PAC exposes political money laundering

In an ingenious effort to shed light on how political action committees hide the sources of campaign contributions, a blogger has launched his own PAC that offers ways to hide the sources of campaign contributions, reports the Washington Post.A University of Alabama student applied to set up DanPAC, a political...

Tags: Elections, State &, Local Govt

Blog posts 2007-06-15

Some online schools don't much care for accreditation rules

Wyoming has a new requirement that private universities be accredited, and it has prompted several online universities to move to areas where there is less oversight, reports the Caspar Star Tribune. Preston University has moved their operations to Alabama in response to the new law, which requires all private...

Tags: Preston, Newport

Blog posts 2007-03-15

Rice goes open source

Rice goes open sourceWhat words fit? Pathetic? Sad? Sympathy?Man, you reach any further for a straw and your gonna fall.just an observationThe author can write a blog on any topic including OSS and not many posts by readers. Mention the word Microsoft or write anything involving Microsoft...

Tags: Rice, open source

Discussion threads 2006-07-13

The world's smallest refrigerator

According to Nature, two theoretical physicists have used the Brownian motion to design a molecular-scale refrigerator powered by 'nano' paddles. And they think that this Brownian refrigerator will one day help cool nanoscale machines. Their mini fridge is composed of two pools of molecules separated by an insulating membrane. A...

Tags: refrigerator, Brownian

Blog posts 2006-05-31

Gambit 1.0.1 (Mac)

Gambit is a Mac OS X application for chess play and analysis. It allows games to be played against the chess engine "Crafty," and it allows completed chess games to be recorded, replayed, annotated, and analyzed.Gambit uses and is 100% compatible with the PGN Portable Game Notation format standard. Support...

Tags: Gambit, Apple Macintosh, Window, Aqueous Software LLC, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2005-12-13