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- University of Missouri Reshapes Hospital Supply Chain Management to Reduce Cost, Increase Effectiveness
- University of Missouri UM wanted to improve supply chain management systems, which had operational issues and limited the ability to control supply costs and improve operating rooms' inventory visibility, to limit stocking costs and prevent frequent expediting of supplies. The challenge was to improve reporting and analytics to properly manage...
- Tags: Hospital, Oracle Corp., University Of Missouri, SCM, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Supply Chain, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- The month ahead: Tech companies set sights on students
- As students savor their last weeks of summer vacation, parents are trying to decide which laptop will best suit their kids' needs. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das and senior editor Sam Diaz look ahead to August and discuss what the tech companies have to offer.
- Tags: Technology Company, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, classroom, student, back to school, netbook, laptop, Mac, iPod Touch, University of Missouri, Apple, Microsoft, Dell, Windows 7, Sumi Das, Sam Diaz
- Videos 2009-07-28
- University of Missouri Works With Insight Team to Identify Strategic Priorities
- The University of Missouri, as a land grant university and Missouri's only public research and doctoral level institution, discovers, disseminates, preserves, and applies knowledge. The University of Missouri is continuously working to attract, recruit, and retain top students from within Missouri and across the nation. The University has defined key...
- Tags: Team, University Of Missouri, Team Management, Management
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Optimizing Request Denial and Latency in an Agent-Based VPN Architecture
- Agent-Based Virtual private networks Architecture ABVA refers to the environment where a third-party provider runs and administers remote access VPN service for organizations that do not want to maintain their own in-house VPN servers. This environment presents interesting management challenges for an ABVA provider. This paper considers the problem of...
- Tags: Latency, Agent, Environment, Server, University Of Missouri, VPN Server, Real Estate, VPNs, Telecommunications, Business Operations, Networking
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Performance Comparison of Wormhole-Routing Priority Switch Architectures
- Temporary nonuniform traffic patterns can severely degrade the performance of wormhole-routing multistage interconnection networks in multiprocessor systems. Temporary saturation trees build up inside the network under these traffic patterns that result in a temporary network overload with increased packet delay. Recently, enhanced switch box architectures and priority mechanisms were proposed...
- Tags: Performance, Network, University Of Missouri, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- An Algorithm for Traffic Grooming in WDM Optical Mesh Networks With Multiple Objectives
- This paper studies a traffic grooming in Wavelength-Division Multiplexing WDM mesh networks for the SONET/SDH streams requested between node pairs. The traffic could be groomed at the access node before converting to an optical signal carried in the All-Optical network. The paper designs a virtual topology with a given physical...
- Tags: Algorithm, Topology, University Of Missouri, WDM, Optical Networking, Mesh Networking, Engineering, Networking
- White papers 2007-10-08
- Perceptive Software Case Study: University of Missouri System
- The University of Missouri System is one of the nation's largest higher education institutions, with more than 63,000 students and 24,000 faculty and staff across campuses in Columbia, Kansas City, St. Louis and Rolla. When staff at the various student financial aid offices became overloaded with paperwork and other departments...
- Tags: University Of Missouri, Perceptive Software, University Of Missouri System, Document Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
- Case studies 2007-10-01
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- Electric vehicle grants
- The feds are giving money to over four dozens industrial and research operations connected with the development of electric cars in the U.S. The total grants are nearly $2.5 billion. This is not like we have a major national commitment to electric cars. The $2.5 billion is...
- Tags: Car, Electric Car, Grant, Battery, Electric Vehicle, Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Netbook, notebook, or something else?
- Netbook, notebook, or something else?I believe it's MUMissouri and Kansas, in their wacky midwestern-ness, are called the University of Missouri and the University of Kansas but are abbreviated MU and KU. Crazy, I know.MU alumna, 1984It's the ecosystem that matters, not hardware per se.You simply need a common platform...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, Net Book, netbook, notebook, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- Netbook, notebook, or something else?
- The iPhone/iTouch debacle at the University of Missouri got me thinking about platforms of choice for student learning. Obviously, I think there is a lot to be said for netbooks in schools, both for teachers and students. They're cheap, light, fairly durable, and kid-sized, while newer models are...
- Tags: Notebook, Student, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- Apple's growth potential: Unleash the iPod Touch
- In this Apple story, it's not about whether you're a Mac or a PC. This time, it's all about the iPod Touch, the shy younger cousin of the iPhone that really hasn't had its moment in the spotlight - until now. Susquehana Financial analyst Jeffrey Fidacaro wrote...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Digital Music, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- Mandatory iPhones at UM worth a bit of outrage?
- Sam Diaz' blog post, as well as countless others about the iPhone/iPod touch requirements at the University of Missouri School of Journalism were all over Twitter and Google News Monday. I held off posting my own reaction because, quite frankly, I wasn't completely sure where I stood. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- Apple's iPod touch, iPhone as education tool: Should universities dictate whether you're a Mac or PC?
- Apple's iPod touch, iPhone as education tool: Should universities dictate whether you're a Mac or PC?I do understand a need to narrow the support costsbut at the same time I agree that the school or university should not dictate what I purchase for what ever reason.Part of the problem is...
- Tags: Desktops, Digital music, Digital media, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., PC, iPhone-as education tool, Apple iPod Touch, iPhone-a, education tool, Universities, Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2009-05-11
- Apple's iPod touch, iPhone as education tool: Should universities dictate whether you're a Mac or PC?
- Apple has been a strong player in the education vertical for years via its Mac juggernaut. Now it appears that the iPhone and iPod touch has a shot at extending that dominance. News of the iPhone as tool have been springing up everywhere Techmeme. The latest is...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, PC, Student, Missouri, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Tool, Northwestern, Medill, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- Forget the Kindle; University "requires" iPhone
- Forget the Kindle; University "requires" iPhoneWow..A runon sentence followed by a fragment followed by another GIANT runon. Granted I stopped, for the most part, when I came across "tho". If this is how college level students communicate these days - I think we have more to worry about than shelling...
- Tags: iPhone Applications, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2009-05-11
- Forget the Kindle; University "requires" iPhone
- There goes the need for a Kindle. Incoming freshmen at the University of Missouri's School of Journalism will be required to have an iPhone or iPod Touch for class lectures and lessons - not Amazon's e-book reader that just announced a deal with textbook publishers. Techmeme ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Lecture, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- Go ahead...Hang out on MySpace. Wait, what?
- Go ahead...Hang out on MySpace. Wait, what?BullI see way too many students at my university doing nothing but spending time on the "new media". Most of them are like crack whores. It's their whole world and nothing else matters. Oh, yeah, most of them seem to flunk out in...
- Tags: Go-ahead, MySpace
- Discussion threads 2008-11-21
- Maybe It's Time for Twenty-Somethings To Take Over Media
- Media companies have to become technology companies, able to quickly and effectively deliver new services that appeal to a generation of readers who only spend about seven minutes a day of their free time reading stuff printed on paper. That’s the contention propounded this morning by Harold...
- Tags: Media Company, Technology Company, BusinessWeek, Media, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Government 2.0: Focus is on IT recruiting
- Should local governments deploy Web 2.0 applications as part of an online services portfolio? Speakers at the Pennsylvania Digital Government Summit, sponsored by Government Technology magazine, were four-square in favor but urged CIOs to move deliberately, ComputerWorld reports. "I'm not here to tell government to just jump in," said...
- Tags: Information Technology, Recruiting, Government Information Portal, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Printing organs on demand?
- Every year, pharmaceutical companies invest many millions of dollars to test drugs that will never reach market while the number of patients waiting for organ transplants continues to increase. Would it be possible to create human tissues to help to solve both problems? A research team from the University of...
- Tags: Team, Organ, Cell, Printing, MU, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-23
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