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Sun Technology Drives Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions

The University of Minnesota is one of the most comprehensive public universities in the United States and ranks among the most prestigious. They measure Return On Investment ROI by their ability to drive the University's IT strategy, which supports the entire student experience, from recruitment through graduation. The University wanted...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Enterprise Computing, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., University Of Minnesota, Roi/Tco, Sun Solaris, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Operating Systems, Software

Case studies 2008-01-21

LocationChanger 1.3 (Mac)

LocationChanger automatically reconfigures many programs and resources according to IP address, wireless network ID, gateway MAC address, physical location, ISP, or network connection speed. Currently LocationChanger is capable of automatically modifying the following: NFS automounts Privoxy settings host file settings default printer Mail server and account iChat status and services...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Network, University Of Minnesota, Hardware, Network Connection, E-mail, Networking, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-01-04

MINDS - Minnesota Intrusion Detection System

This paper introduces the Minnesota Intrusion Detection System MINDS, which uses a suite of data mining techniques to automatically detect attacks against computer networks and systems. While the long-term objective of MINDS is to address all aspects of intrusion detection, this paper focuses on two specific contributions: an unsupervised anomaly...

Tags: Technique, Network, University Of Minnesota, Network Connection, Productivity, Networking

White papers 2008-01-01

The MINDS - Minnesota Intrusion Detection System

This paper introduces the Minnesota Intrusion Detection System MINDS, which uses a suite of data mining techniques to automatically detect attacks against computer networks and systems. While the long-term objective of MINDS is to address all aspects of intrusion detection, this paper focuses on two specific contributions. First, it shows...

Tags: University Of Minnesota, Data Mining, Productivity, Intrusion Detection, Network Security, Business Intelligence, Networking, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-01-01

Fractional Rate Phase Detectors for Clock and Data Recovery

The use of optical fiber as a transmission medium in communications networks allows very high bandwidth to be achieved. However, dispersion effects within the fiber require that the data be regenerated periodically. Optical links typically convert from the optical domain to the electronic domain to perform the regeneration and then...

Tags: Data Recovery, Domain, University Of Minnesota, Fiber, Storage Management, Network Technology, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-01-01

Implementing Distributed Workflow Systems From XML Specifications

In enterprise-wide distributed workflow, multiple users cooperate towards some common goal following predefined task specifications. This paper presents an approach for constructing a distributed workflow system starting from its XML specification in terms of various participants' roles, access rights based on roles, shared objects, operations, and workflow constraints. The specifications...

Tags: Specification, University Of Minnesota, Workflow System, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

White papers 2008-01-01

Perceptive Software Case Study: University of Minnesota System

For an institution as large and diverse as the University of Minnesota System, document management is not just a quick fix to alleviate the pains of paper, but an institution-wide strategy to help take the university to the next level of efficiency and student service. With hundreds of departments that...

Tags: University Of Minnesota, Perceptive Software, Document Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

Case studies 2007-10-01

MCTA: Target Tracking Algorithm Based on Minimal Contour in Wireless Sensor Networks

This paper proposes a Minimal Contour Tracking Algorithm MCTA that reduces energy consumption for tracking mobile targets in wireless sensor networks in terms of sensing and communication energy consumption. MCTA conserves energy by letting only a minimum number of sensor nodes participate in communication and perform sensing for target tracking....

Tags: Algorithm, Network, Wireless Sensor Network, University Of Minnesota, Wireless, Minimal Contour Tracking Algorithm, Research & Development, Business Operations

White papers 2007-01-21

Joint Congestion Control and OFDMA Scheduling for Hybrid Wireline-Wireless Networks

This paper considers joint congestion control and multiuser scheduling in a hybrid wireline and wireless network, where the air interface of wireless links is based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing OFDM. For static channels, the paper formulates this cross-layer design as a Network Utility Maximization NUM problem with both wireline...

Tags: Congestion Control, Wireless Link, University Of Minnesota, OFDMA, OFDM, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers 2006-12-13

Orchestrating Web Services - Standards and Solutions

Standards and technological solutions for orchestration appeared as a natural growth of web service technologies. They arose out of the need for composing several services into one and thus forming more complex services and business processes. There is another term and group of technologies, relevant to composing of services -...

Tags: Web, Web Service, University Of Minnesota, Standards, Choreography, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Channel Management, Quality, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Business Operations

White papers 2006-10-31

A Methodology for Constructing Collective Causal Maps

A causal map is an essential tool for both managers and researchers in the field of operations management. In the operations management practitioner literature, causal maps are known by many names, including Ishikawa fishbone diagrams, impact wheels, issue trees, strategy maps, risk assessment mapping tools, and cause and effect diagrams....

Tags: University Of Minnesota, Operations Management, Tool, Collective Causal Mapping Methodology, Productivity, Strategy, Management

White papers 2005-11-15

CDMA-Based Network-on-Chip Architecture

This paper presents a novel Network-on-Chip NoC architecture that is based on Code Division Multiple Access CDMA techniques. The orthogonality properties of a Walsh code are used to route data packets between resources. A star network topology allows a hierarchical switching platform to be constructed which can be scaled to...

Tags: Network Topology, CDMA, University Of Minnesota

White papers 2004-08-24

OFDM or Single-Carrier Block Transmissions?

This paper compares two block transmission systems over frequency-selective fading channels: orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing OFDM versus single-carrier modulated blocks with zero padding ZP. It first compares their peak-to-average power ratio PAR and the corresponding power amplifier backoff for phase-shift keying or quadrature amplitude modulation. Then it studies the effects of...

Tags: Channel, University Of Minnesota, OFDM, Wireless

White papers 2004-03-01

University of Minnesota Selects Cisco Storage Area Network for Scalability, Reliability

Headquartered in the Twin Cities, Minnesota - with five campuses and additional research and outreach centers throughout the state - the University of Minnesota is the second-largest campus in the United States. The goal of the university's upgrade project was to migrate its open systems direct-attached data storage to a...

Tags: Network, SAN, Scalability, University Of Minnesota, Cisco Systems Inc., Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Hardware

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Service Oriented Internet

Effective service delivery capabilities are critical to the transformation of the Internet into a viable commercial infrastructure. At the present time, the architecture of the Internet is inadequately equipped to provide these capabilities. This paper proposes a novel, overlay based Service Oriented Internet architecture that is meant to serve as...

Tags: University Of Minnesota, Service Delivery Capability, Internet

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Blacklist-Aided Forwarding in Static Multihop Wireless Networks

Static broadband wireless networks, due to their ease of deployment, are likely to proliferate in the near future. The major stumbling block, however, is that wireless links are prone to external interference, channel fading, inclement weather, etc. Therefore scalable and reliable routing despite frequent link quality fluctuations is needed for...

Tags: Network, University Of Minnesota, Networking, Wireless

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Additional Resources

Challenging Silicon Valley to put poverty into a museum . . .

I'm not washing my right hand for a while because I used it to shake the hand of Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and a person that I've held in the highest regard for many years. Mr Yunus gave the keynote speech at the Tech Museum's Tech...

Tags: Bangladesh, Entrepreneurship, Grameen Bank, Grameen Loan, Leadership, Management, Muhammad Yunus, Poverty, Silicon Valley, Strategy, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-11-13

News to know: Adobe; Apple; Facebook; Microsoft security

Notable headlines: Zack Whittaker: Students try to bring down Facebook Dancho Danchev: Microsoft's CAPTCHA successfully broken Ryan Naraine: Microsoft issues Safari-to-IE blended threat warning Obama looking for help thwarting Web site hackers Chinese female hacking group spotted ActiveX...

Tags: Security, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Fuel Cells, Utility Computing, Hardware, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-02

How to detect network vulnerabilities?

Computer scientists at George Mason University GMU have developed a new software to identify complex cyber network attacks. This software is named CAULDRON (short for 'Combinatorial Analysis Utilizing Logical Dependencies Residing on Networks'). The developers claim that CAULDRON 'can reduce the impact of cyber attacks by identifying the possible vulnerability...

Tags: Software, Network, Vulnerability, George Mason University, CAULDRON, Networking, Security, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-18

Electricity generated by bacteria?

It will take years before bacteria can generate enough energy to generate electricity for transportation, homes or businesses, but researchers at the University of Minnesota studying bacteria have found a way to convert waste into electricity. They've discovered that riboflavin (also known as vitamin B-2) is responsible for much of...

Tags: Electron, Bacteria, Shewanella, Web Site Development, Telecom & Utilities, Transportation, Internet, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-04