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Wireless Sensor Networks: A Great Opportunity for Researchers in Developing Countries

This paper advocates the use of wireless sensor networks in Developing Countries as one foresees they have a great role to play not only to expedite novel solutions that help mitigate development problems, but also to facilitate research activities in crucial scientific areas such as environmental monitoring, physics of complex...

Tags: Developing Country, Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless, University Of Cape Town

White papers 2008-08-15

ViSSh: A Data Visualisation Spreadsheet

This paper describes a data visualisation system which uses spreadsheets as its user interface metaphor. Similar systems implemented in the past were hampered by the contradiction between an imperative formula language and the declarative spreadsheet framework. They have analysed spreadsheets from a data visualisation point of view, and built a...

Tags: Spreadsheet, University Of Cape Town, Productivity

White papers 2008-01-01

Modelling Internet Workloads for IEEE 802.16

The IEEE 802.16-2004 standard contains the Wireless MAN WMAN air interface specification. WMAN has become a major part of the emerging broadband wireless access technology particularly since it accounts for differentiated Traffic Classes TCs. Differentiated traffic is immediately associated with Quality of Service QoS and this then becomes the objective...

Tags: WMAN, Internet, Broadband Wireless, IEEE 802.16, University Of Cape Town, WiMAX, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2007-03-07

Introducing Students to Business Intelligence: Acceptance and Perceptions of OLAP Software

This paper concerns a practical On-Line Analytic Processing OLAP project given to 2nd year information systems major students. They were required to analyse two sets of sales data with two different OLAP software tools, and report both on their findings and on their experiences of working with the two products....

Tags: Business Intelligence, OLAP, University Of Cape Town, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2007-01-01

Component-Based Digital Library Scalability Using Cluster Computing

Most institutions make use of Digital Library systems DL to deal with the information they use. DL systems allow them to provide information management services, including the ability to search through and browse the information they have made available. The current architecture of the systems however, does not scale well...

Tags: Information Management, Scalability, Digital Library, Cluster Computing, University Of Cape Town, Strategy, Management

White papers 2006-10-02

A Security Architecture for High Performance Computing Facilities

High Performance Computing facilities that use cluster computing to provide computational services to scientists and engineers have become widespread, with such facilities available at most major research universities worldwide, as well as in government and industrial research settings. Until recently HPC facilities have largely neglected security, or at the very...

Tags: Facility, Security, High-performance Computing, High-performance, University Of Cape Town, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Management

White papers 2006-06-18

A Scheduling Scheme to Improve QoS Provisioning for IP Traffic

Output Queuing OQ and Input Queuing IQ are the two basic queuing strategies implemented in routers. IQ has been identified as the simplest and the most scalable. However, IQ achieves only 58.6% throughput due to the Head Of Line HOL blocking effect. The Virtual Output Queuing VOQ strategy is a...

Tags: Algorithm, QoS, Router, IP, University Of Cape Town, Input Queuing, Virtual Output Queuing Strategy, Engineering, Routers & Switches, Strategy, Network Technology, Networking, Management

White papers 2006-02-23

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ImageNow for Higher Education

Imagine the impact at one's college or university of having a direct connection to student, personnel and business operations information. One would make admissions and financial aid decisions more quickly, provide better service to students and staff, boost productivity and more. For Cornell University, the University of Cambridge, University of...

Tags: Education, Perceptive Software, ImageNow Enterprise Document Management, Document Management, Managerial Accounting, Process Improvement, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Quality, Business Operations

White papers 2009-01-01

IE8's "best" feature broken: stick with Firefox

The plug-ins, the add-ons, the "download and use with" programs. So many people have been on about the "porn mode" InPrivate feature, the coloured tabs and the accelerator features, but what seems to be missing from the blogosphere is the entire gallery of additional software for the product. ...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, IE8, Internet Explorer 8, Web Browsers, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-04

How to become a cyber tracker

African researchers have developed a software for PDAs that turns the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert into digital wildlife trackers. Most of the Bushmen cannot read or write, but they can see what is alive in front of them -- and the icons on their PDAs. The screen displays more...

Tags: Wireless &, Telecom, Science &, Nature, Energy &, Environment, Computers &, Internet

Blog posts 2007-07-15

Cry the beloved country!

Cry the beloved country!South Africa WiFiRead P. J. O'Rourke's book "All the trouble in the world," specifically his chapter on Bangladesh. The chapter on Africa is also illuminating. His thesis- much of the world's problem stem from a combination of governmental corruption and/or lassitude, and popular passivity - the latter...

Tags: Network technology, IP

Discussion threads 2006-09-07

Cry the beloved country!

I’m writing this as I leave South Africa – sitting in an airport lounge on WiFi (iPass via South Africa’s Internet Solutions) at the end of my fifth trip here over a span of six years. I’m a member of the President’s International Advisory Council PIAC on the Information...

Tags: I&rsquo, m, President&rsquo, s International Advisory Council

Blog posts 2006-09-07

University of Cape Town Improves Student Experience and Services With Integrated Campus Applications

The University of Cape Town UCT is South Africa's oldest university, and one of Africa's leading teaching and research institutions. The company wanted to streamline student administration with an IT system designed specifically for that function. The challenge was to improve ability to recruit and retain students through streamlined admissions,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial Accounting, Workforce Management, Finance, Human Resources

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