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T-rays used to reveal old hidden art: U.S. engineers are collaborating with the Center for Research and Restoration at The Louvre Museum in France to use a terahertz device to find murals hidden behind plaster or paint for centuries. T-rays, or pulses of terahertz radiation, can 'illuminate penciled sketches under paintings on canvas without harming the artwork,'...; Tags: France, University Of Michigan, Imaging, Radiation, Church, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-02-06
Enriching Intrusion Alerts Through Multi-Host Causality: Current intrusion detection systems point out suspicious states or events but do not show how the suspicious state or events relate to other states or events in the system. This paper shows how to enrich an IDS alert with information about how those alerts causally lead to or result from...; Tags: Event, University Of Michigan, Intrusion, Attack, Security, Viruses And Worms; White papers 2008-01-01
MATE: MPLS Adaptive Traffic Engineering: Destination-based forwarding in traditional IP routers has not been able to take full advantage of multiple paths that frequently exist in Internet Service Provider Networks. As a result, the networks may not operate efficiently, especially when the traffic patterns are dynamic. This paper describes a multipath adaptive traffic engineering mechanism,...; Tags: MPLS, Network, University Of Michigan, Networking, Network Technology; White papers 2008-01-01
A flying fish or a seaplane?: University of Michigan engineers have developed a new unmanned aerial vehicle UAV after looking at real flying fish. Like the fish, this seaplane takes off and lands on water. The 7-foot wingspan electric UAV has been funded by the DOD's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA and designed as 'an...; Tags: University Of Michigan, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Aerospace & Defense, GPS, Manufacturing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-12-06
Automating chip debugging: You all know that fixing bugs in computer chips after they've been fabricated in silicon is a tedious and costly process. This is why researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a new technology to automate post-silicon debugging. FogClear, as the new method is called, 'uses puzzle-solving search algorithms...; Tags: University Of Michigan, Chip, FogClear, Semiconductors, CAD, Network Technology, Hardware, Software, Networking, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-11-06

Data Security Standards: Integrity and Availability: The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) was formed to take shared responsibility for the long-term accessibility to social science datasets that are of value to current and future researchers and policy-makers. To maintain accessibility and support dissemination, the quality and integrity of the information within and about...; Tags: University Of Michigan, Standards, Data Security, Quality, Security, Business Operations; White papers 2007-07-31
Rethinking Antivirus: Executable Analysis in the Network Cloud: Antivirus software installed on each end host in an organization has become the de-facto security mechanism used to defend against unwanted executables. This paper argues that the executable analysis currently provided by host-based antivirus software can be more efficiently and effectively provided as an in-cloud network service. Instead of running...; Tags: Network, University Of Michigan, Antivirus, Analysis; White papers 2007-07-26
Lenses that bring everything into focus: Scientists at the University of Michigan have developed a new lens device that will shrink huge light waves to pinpoints. The superlens looks like a plate and "is etched with a specific pattern. As the waves pass through the patterned lens, it is sculpted into different sizes and shapes. The...; Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Nanotechnology, Science &, Nature; Blog posts 2007-07-14
Low-Rate TCP-Targeted DoS Attack Disrupts Internet Routing: Compared to attacks against end hosts, Denial of Service DoS attacks against the Internet infrastructure such as those targeted at routers can be more devastating due to their global impact on many networks. The paper discovers that the recently identified low-rate TCP-targeted DoS attacks can have severe impact on the...; Tags: Network, University Of Michigan, Attack, TCP-Targeted DoS Attack, BGP, Internet, Security, Networking; White papers 2007-01-01
Integrated Network Interfaces for High-Bandwidth TCP/IP: This paper proposes new Network Interface Controller NIC designs that take advantage of integration with the host CPU to provide increased flexibility for operating system kernel-based performance optimization. The authors believe that this approach is more likely to meet the needs of current and future high-bandwidth TCP/IP networking on end...; Tags: Network, University Of Michigan, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2006-10-21
WIND: Workload-Aware INtrusion Detection: Intrusion detection and prevention systems have become essential to the protection of critical networks across the Internet. Widely deployed IDS and IPS systems are based around a database of known malicious signatures. This database is growing quickly while at the same time the signatures are getting more complex. These trends...; Tags: Aware, University Of Michigan, Signature, Intrusion Detection, Storage, Network Security, Databases, Security, Hardware, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2006-07-03
Introduction and Preliminary Experimental Results of Wireless Access for Vehicular Environments (WAVE) Systems: At first, this paper presents an overview on the background and technical merits of Wireless Access for Vehicular Environments WAVE systems. Next, a WAVE testbed was setup and the preliminary experimental results are reported. The WAVE testbed operates at the center frequency of 5.9GHz and adopts a signal format defined...; Tags: University Of Michigan, Environment, Wireless Access, Wireless, Wi-Fi; White papers 2006-06-12
A Low-Power Dual-VDD Microprocessor for General Purpose Correlation Applications: This paper presents a 143 MHz 16-bit RISC microprocessor. The processor includes a reconfigurable multiplier that was customized for correlation algorithms. Low-power techniques such as dual-Vdd (2.5/1.8V) and clock gating reduced power by 39% without compromising performance. In addition to the correlator, an I/O interface is included that allows for...; Tags: University Of Michigan, Productivity, Processors, Engineering, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; White papers 2006-04-23
Siren: Catching Evasive Malware (Short Paper): With the growing popularity of anomaly detection systems, which is due partly to the rise in zero-day attacks, a new class of threats have evolved where the attacker mimics legitimate activity to blend in and avoid detection. This paper proposes a new system called Siren that injects crafted human input...; Tags: University Of Michigan, Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Networking; White papers 2006-02-26
From the University of Michigan, a stinging rebuke of publishers: You may have heard about University of Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman's speech to the Association of American Publishers, titled "Google, the Khmer Rouge and the Public Good," but it's certainly worth reading the full speech at the school's website. UMich is one of the major universities cooperating with...; Tags: Khmer Rouge, Google Inc., University of Michigan, preservation; Blog posts 2006-02-10
Photos: Solar raycers cross the finish line: The University of Michigan's car crossed the finish line to win the 2,500 mile North American Solar Challenge.; Tags: University of Michigan; Image galleries 2005-07-28
Photos: Solar raycers cross the finish line: The University of Michigan's car crossed the finish line to win the 2,500 mile North American Solar Challenge.; Tags: University of Michigan; Image galleries 2005-07-28
Optimizing Call Center Staffing Using Simulation and Analytic Center Cutting Plane Methods: The authors considered the problem of minimizing staffing costs in an inbound call center, while maintaining an acceptable level of service in multiple time periods. The problem is complicated by the fact that staffing level in one time period can affect the service levels in subsequent periods. The authors present...; Tags: Staffing, Call-center, University Of Michigan, Problem, Call Centers, It Operations; White papers 2005-07-20
Sampling and Stability in TCP/IP Workloads: To overcome the performance cost of simulating detailed timing models, computer architects often augment these models with fast functional simulation for fast-forwarding, checkpointing, warm-up, or sampling. The experience with simulating network-intensive workloads has shown that researchers must exercise caution when using such techniques in this environment. Because the TCP/IP protocol...; Tags: University Of Michigan, Model, Tcp/Ip, Performance Management, Network Technology, Productivity, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2005-05-22
The University of Michigan Builds an Enterprise With PeopleSoft: To continue to compete for quality students and research grants, and to offer highly rated academic programs, the University of Michigan needed a common software infrastructure that would manage financial, human resources, and student administration functions. The university implemented PeopleSoft enterprise-wide. With PeopleSoft, all of the internal organizations-no matter how...; Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., University Of Michigan, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware; Case studies