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Data Mining Storm Attributes From Spatial Grids

A technique to identify storms and capture scalar features within the geographic and temporal extent of the identified storms is described. The identification technique relies on clustering grid points in an observation field to find self-similar and spatially coherent clusters that meet the traditional understanding of what storms are. From...

Tags: Technique, Storm, Data Mining, Spatial Corp., Grid, University Of Oklahoma, Identification Technique, Productivity

White papers 2009-04-30

New Gravity Database and Web Portal for the United States

Measurements of anomalies in the Earth's gravity and magnetic fields are useful and cost-effective tools for many geologic investigations. Significant amounts of these data are traditionally in the public domain, but a readily available database, updated standards, and supplementary materials were needed. In addition a new magnetic database for North...

Tags: U.S., Gravity, Portal, Web Portal, University Of Oklahoma, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-01-29

QoS Support in ARINC 664 P8 Data Networks: ATN Applications Over TCP/IP Ground-to-Ground Subnetworks

Aeronautical Telecommunication Network ATN has been developed by International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO to integrate air-ground and ground-ground data communications for aeronautical applications into a single network serving air traffic control and aeronautical operational communications. The current ICAO ATN model specifies a standalone network with its own protocols, which requires...

Tags: Application, QoS, Network, University Of Oklahoma, Aeronautical Telecommunication Network, ARINC 664 Part 8 Committee, Tcp/Ip, Networking

White papers 2006-07-01

Additional Resources

Advancing the prosthetic aesthetic

Experimental prosthetic arms in labs across the country will soon pave the way for commercial versions to antiquate the last major upgrade that took place almost a hundred years ago. That was the cable-operated prosthetic hook (for above-the-elbow amputees). Thanks to the Defense Advanced Research Projects...

Tags: Patient, DARPA, Chicago, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-02-20

Oklahoma State University Theme (BB) (Mobile)

The Official The Official Oklahoma State University Theme Completely transform the way your BlackBerry looks. Change all of the icons, colors and the backgrounds. Change the graphics on every screen.This product is compatible with BlackBerry Models 7100, 8100, 8300, 8700, and 8800 which includes the BlackBerry Curve and the Pearl.This...

Tags: Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-02-20

RIAA gets student names, can't do much with them

The Recording Industry Association of America RIAA was provided with a list of student names flagged as file sharers at Oklahoma State University when a judge threatened to hold the school in contempt. However, according to Ars Technica, because some of the students are represented by an attorney, RIAA...

Tags: RIAA, Litigation, Digital Media, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Google: Rewriting the book on data centers

Om Malik had an interesting post about Google's super-sized datacenters. He posited that Google’s massive infrastructure, customized for its processes, represents a the big barrier to entry for its rivals, and it will continue to give the company an edge as long as it keeps spending the billions on its...

Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-05

Rutgers, Va. Tech join forces on digital archive

Rutgers University librarians are helping to create a digital archive of thousands of artifacts collected after the Virginia Tech massacre, The Star-Ledger reports. Among the artifacts being captured: some of the folder paper cranes that students and others made as a symbol of peace after the killings. ...

Tags: Virginia Tech, Artifact, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-18

Trade you some CO2 for a little O2

I wouldn't hold my breath on anything getting done about the atmosphere and climate change in the current configuration of power in Washington D.C. But there are some rumblings that may hint about the next phase of American politics.Tuesday, July 24, 230pm Eastern Time, there's a subcommittee hearing in...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-07-24

NCAA switches off live blogger--Twitterers are next

A Louisville Courier-Journal sports reporter collided with NCAA policies. Brian Bennett was live blogging in detail a baseball game between the University of Louisville and Oklahoma State, and had his press credential revoked by a NCAA National Collegiate Athletic Association representative, citing the organization's policy prohibiting real-time updates on the...

Tags: Blogging

Blog posts 2007-06-12

Google data centers 'manufacture Internet services'

"We’re like a large manufacturing facility, but what we manufacture is Internet services," Lloyd Taylor, director of operations for Google, said today, in publicly announcing the creation of a $600 million data center at Mid-America Industrial Park MAIIP in Pryor, Oklahoma, about 40 miles northeast of Tulsa.Google pressures power companies...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-05-02

The artificial nature of national borders

The artificial nature of national bordersHistorical contextThe rise of restrictions is directly related to the rise of unions. As they gained strength, they used that strength politically to create protections for their members. That political strength also elected more statist governments that created various bureaucracies to protect workers....

Tags: Government, permit, worker

Discussion threads 2007-03-06

Test-taking by clicker gains acceptance

The image of a professor of bonehead English hunched over a pile of students tests may soon be a thing of the past, as more professors start to use student-operated remote controls for exams, reports the Associated Press. Students use clickers which register responses immediately, making it easier for...

Tags: clicker

Blog posts 2007-01-30

Welcome to college. Now lets' talk about Facebook.

Along with the requisite student orientation, newly arriving college students will be getting a stern warning about the risks of Internet postings on social networking sites such as Facebook, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Many colleges and universities are incorporating into their routine orientations instruction about proper online behavior....

Tags: Facebook, Susquehanna University

Blog posts 2006-08-04

Outsourcing to Oklahoma?

Outsourcing to Oklahoma?90 miles awayI live in Tulsa - 90+ miles away - from Oklahoma CIty and know the benefits of avoiding the coasts. A half million dollar house in Palo Alto if any are left would be about $90K here - with a bigger yard. People transferred...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, outsourcing, job, Tulsa, cost-of-living, Carl Rapson

Discussion threads 2005-01-14

Hackers steal ID info from Virginia university

Hackers steal ID info from Virginia universityPar For The Course At Many UniversitiesMany university networks are so riddled with viruses and hackers that any unprotected PC is fair game and is compromised in a matter of minutes....University of Oklahoma's network is so overrun that an unprotected PC will last less...

Tags: Web servers, Social Security, Servers, Databases, Operational accounting, server, network, database, Web server

Discussion threads 2005-01-10

H-1B visa limit reached

H-1B visa limit reachedIf a company needs a H1BIf a company says they need a H1B....Get them to send their job spec to Immigration, Immigration can send it round the US job agencies and see if they can fill it with US staff.If they can fill it, then the company...

Tags: Group Inc., H1B, H-1B visa, H-1B

Discussion threads 2004-02-18