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- The Phoenix Lander's thirst for Martian water
- After the Phoenix Lander touched down near the north pole of Mars, the mission has been on to find water. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi interviews planetary scientist Paul Doherty about Martian water, ice, and snowflakes, and why finding any of them would be a big deal.
- Tags: Phoenix Technologies, News, kara tsuboi, paul doherty, jared kohler, pheonix mars lander, nasa, university of arizona, space
- Videos 2008-05-29
- Parameter Calibration, Customer Load Balancing and Security Aspects for Multiplexing of BPO Infrastructure
- Outsourcing, during its establishment phase, focused on the socio-economic and the managerial concerns of the companies, countries and people involved. As progress toward the next generation of outsourcing, one need to ascertain a technology framework that would permit to outsource in a secure and optimized manner with reduced reliance on...
- Tags: University Of Arizona, Security, BPO, Load Balancing, Distributed Computing, Outsourcing, Network Technology, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Cloud Computing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Networking
- White papers 2007-11-30
- Improving Testing Capability of Interoperability for Link-11 by Building a Gateway for a TCP/IP Network
- Link-11 is a tactical digital communication network standard deployed in military platforms now for several decades. The standard employs the digital modulation technique Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying DQPSK to encode formatted binary messages (M-series messages) onto an audio channel, which are then modulated and transmitted over a radio communications...
- Tags: University Of Arizona, TCP/IP, Interoperability, Gateway Inc., Network, Link-11, Networking, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2007-09-04
- Foundation funds AZ universities to attract top science minds
- With an influx of cash from Science Foundation Arizona, Arizonas three state universities are hoping to attract the brainiest grad students to their science programs, reports the Arizona Daily Star. With a $4 million infusion to Arizona State University, the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University, Science Foundation...
- Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed, Science Ed, University of Arizona
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
- TCP Vegas: New Techniques for Congestion Detection and Avoidance
- Vegas is a new implementation of TCP that achieves between 40 and 70% better throughput, with one-fifth to one-half the losses, as compared to the implementation of TCP in the Reno distribution of BSD Unix. This paper motivates and describes the three key techniques employed by Vegas, and presents the...
- Tags: University Of Arizona, Technique, TCP, Vegas, Tcp/Ip, Networking
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Image: Solar shield may save the planet
- University of Arizona astronomer Roger Angel proposes a giant shield to block sunlight if global warming gets out of control.
- Tags: shield, University of Arizona, astronomer, sunlight, global warming
- Image galleries 2006-11-06
- TCP Vegas: End to End Congestion Avoidance on a Global Internet
- Vegas is an implementation of TCP that achieves between 37 and 71% better throughput on the Internet, with one-fifth to one-half the losses, as compared to the implementation of TCP in the Reno distribution of BSD Unix. This paper motivates and describes the three key techniques employed by Vegas, and...
- Tags: University Of Arizona, TCP, Vegas, Tcp/Ip, Internet, Networking
- White papers 2006-09-20
- Interactive Wireless User Interfaces in Virtual Cave Environments
- This paper presents a way to enhance the user interface for CAVE environments. The traditional methods of controlling the navigation through virtual environments includes: glove, HMD's and 3D mouse devices. By integrating a wireless network that includes both WiFi (IEEE 802.11b/g) and Bluetooth (IEEE 802.15.1) protocols the non-graphical input control...
- Tags: University Of Arizona, Mouse, Environment, IEEE, Mice, Wi-Fi, Pocket PC, Wireless, PDAs, Hardware, Peripherals, Handhelds
- White papers 2005-12-05
- Level-Of-Detail Based Modeling of Object Movement in Tracking and Surveillance System
- This paper proposes a Level-of-Detail LOD based method for modeling object movement in wireless sensor network tracking and surveillance applications. This method addresses the dilemma of achieving maximum information with limited power and bandwidth in wireless sensor network. LOD provides the researchers with various fidelity levels of data to perform...
- Tags: University Of Arizona, Modeling, LOD, Research & Development, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Business Operations
- White papers 2005-11-08
- Firewall Basics for the Beginning User
- Designed for end-user training, this PowerPoint presentation offers a detailed, yet easy-to-understand explanation of how personal firewall software works, what it can and cannot protect against, and shows how to configure Kerio Personal Firewall.
- Tags: University Of Arizona, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking
- Presentations 2004-04-05
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- Techies choose Obama - by a landslide
- If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...
- Tags: Landslide, Broadband, Obama, McCain, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?
- According to Canadian engineers at Queen's University, there are now more than 8,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth. Of course, if they stop to work correctly, these satellites will not be able to be repaired from the ground and will become space junk. So these researchers have developed a...
- Tags: Robot, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
- When it comes to China, is Skype the new Yahoo?
- Any major Western company doing business in China is collaborating with the government to some degree. We know this. Chinese citizens know this. The best case scenario is probably Microsoft or Google's operations where access to certain information is limited. The worst case, until now, has been Yahoo's explicit cooperation...
- Tags: China, Yahoo! Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., Tom, Government, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Wireless, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Gadget nostalgia: Five things I had and five things I have now
- Gadget nostalgia: Five things I had and five things I have nowRE: Gadget nostalgia: Five things I had and five things I have nowMy friend, you are correct. Kudos to you, and thanks for the heads-up.I think the slash in the C:/ prompt is backwards...C: instead of C:/ in PC...
- Tags: Keyboards, nostalgia, Gadget nostalgia, C:","ZDDF.DT.29.52609
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Semantic guardians for our computers?
- If your computer has never crashed, it's because it has been built on another planet. The microprocessors we use are faster and more complex year after year, increasing the risks of being hit by 'functional bugs.' This is why University of Michigan (U-M) researchers have started to develop a system...
- Tags: Monitor, Researcher, Computer, Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- News to know: Cloud wars; Apple; Google; China is watching you
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platform. Techmeme A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve? Zack Whittaker:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IPO, Robots, Linux, E-mail, Digital Media, Financial Services, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Chinese monitoring Tom-Skype messages
- China is running a massive operation to track and store text messages sent over Tom-Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese wireless provider and eBay-owned Skype, The New York Times reports. China has about one million censored messages, many of which contain personally identifiable information, according to...
- Tags: Message, China, Monitoring, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Government, Vertical Industries, Web Servers, Security, Servers, Wireless, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Another setback for university P2P
- Another setback for university P2PUm no.They should NOT kill P2P just because a criminal and inept organization wants to subpoena the daylights out of everyone. What they fail to realize is what ever they think they will produce from it will be negated by the fact they cannot conclusively prove...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Another setback for university P2P
- Last week, a federal judge dismissed the University of Oregon's arguments that the RIAA's attempts to obtain information on student file sharers was unduly burdensome. According to Ars Technica, the judge also ruled that the school did not receive protection under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, since none of...
- Tags: P2P, University, RIAA, Litigation, Peer To Peer (P2P), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Business Operations, Internet, Security, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Pterodactyl-inspired flying robots
- According to Sankar Chatterjee, a professor of paleontology at the Texas Tech University in Lubbock TTU, a 225-million-year-old pterodactyl might soon be reborn as a flying robot. The Tapejara wellnhoferi, which lived in Brazil, was a big flying lizard with an unusual 'accessory,' an 8-inch-high fleshy crest stuck straight up...
- Tags: Professor, Texas Tech University, Aircraft, Tapejara, Pterosaur, Aerospace & Defense, Robots, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
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