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Oxford University Press wins oldest HP-UX prize: Oxford University Press wins oldest HP-UX prizeLike the old Texas Instruments watches ...Some things just keep on keeping on like the old Texas Instrumentswatches made in Mexico Timex!RE: Oxford University Press wins oldest HP-UX prizeI was just wondering if this meant that they were just looking for old hardware running...; Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, HP-UX, HP-UX prize, oldest HP-UX, Oxford University Press, Oxford University; Discussion threads 2007-09-19
Affordable Financing for an Oxford College: St. Peter's college, Oxford university needed to install flexible wireless network throughout college and desired to obtain best possible price/ performance. There was need to stretch existing IT budget. The University deployed Cisco Capital EasyLease financing and scalable and secure cisco wireless and wired network. This resulted in better management...; Tags: Network, Financing, Cisco Systems Inc., University Of Oxford; Case studies 2007-09-01
Building an Enterprise Infrastructure Without an Enterprise Budget: A Case Study on Virtualisation: At the Oxford University Language Centre, the paper has harnessed the power of Virtualisation to provide a robust, scalable, and cost-effective IT infrastructure that punches far above the economic weight. Through this technology, the paper has been able to implement unprecedented flexibility, reliability and responsiveness in the IT resources. It...; Tags: University Of Oxford, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage; White papers 2007-07-16
Concatenated RS-Convolutional Codes for Ultrawideband Multiband-OFDM: This paper investigates the performance of concatenated Reed Solomon and convolutional RSconvolutional codes for UltraWideBand UWB MultiBand Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MB-OFDM) systems. This paper show that RS-convolutional codes perform better than single codes at high energy-per-bit to noise ratio (Eb/No). The paper also show that using a bit interleaver...; Tags: UWB, University Of Oxford, Ultrawideband (UWB), Wireless; White papers 2006-07-09
The university of oxford: Intel and United Devices Team Up to Speed Cancer Research: The University of Oxford Chemistry Department is home to the Centre for Computational Drug Design, set up by the National Foundation for Cancer Research NFCR. Oxford's aggressive goal was to screen several chemical libraries against 12 target proteins previously determined to be key elements in cancer growth. The objective was...; Tags: United Devices, University of Oxford; Case studies 2006-05-04

The ImageStore Ontology and the Bioimage Database: Semantic Web Tools for Biological Research Images: The BioImage Database is an ontology-driven image database for multidimensional images of biological specimens. It is built using Jena and other Open Source components around an ImageStore Ontology written in OWL-DL that describes all aspects of the image. Manual metadata entry is simplified by the dynamic creation from the underlying...; Tags: Image, Semantic Web, University Of Oxford, Bioimage Database, Manual Metadata Entry; White papers 2006-05-04
Identity Management as a Cybersecurity Case Study: As the Internet has become integral to the basic functioning of industrialized societies, so has cyber security become central to general security. However, the players involved in ensuring a secure cyberspace - that is, governments and private enterprises - may have different interests: One government's preferred order is anathema to...; Tags: Cyber Security, University Of Oxford, Digital Identity, Identity Management, Government; White papers 2005-09-08
Enabling Semantic Grid Computing With ebXML: ebXML is a suite of standards from the e-business community addressing the entire lifecycle for Service Oriented Architectures for business to business and business to consumer activities. This position paper outlines how the Semantic GRID can benefit from the use of ebXML related standards (such as Business Process, Collaboration Protocol...; Tags: Grid Computing, University Of Oxford, ebXML, B2B, B2C, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet; White papers 2004-04-19
Monitoring Your Network: This PowerPoint presentation explains how multiple security tools can be used to monitor a computer network. Covered tools include: WS_Ping_ProPack, XploiterStat Lite, Windows Event Viewer, Sophos Anti-Virus for NT, Sophos Anti-Virus ADMIN Tool, Software Firewalls, eTrust Intrusion Detection Sessionwall, 3Com Network Supervisor, GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner, and Network Probe....; Tags: Network, Sophos Anti-Virus, Sophos Plc., Monitoring, University Of Oxford, Tool, Productivity, Viruses And Worms, Security, Networking; Presentations 2003-06-24

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Images: Mars is getting a new visitor: NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is expected to search for life after it touches down near an icy region of the Red Planet on May 25.On the morning of May 25, Mars will receive a new alien contraption from Earth, the Phoenix Mars Lander. Its three month mission is to sample...; Tags: Surface, Earth, NASA, Phoenix Technologies, It', CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-15
A robotic chef for your kitchen?: The European Commission has founded a project named 'Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems' CHRIS for a cost of €3.65 million. The project, which started in March 2008, will last 4 years. It is based at Bristol Robotics Lab BRL which will work with the University of the West of England...; Tags: Project, CHRIS, Service Robot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Bell Canada's packet inspection violates privacy law, group says: And you didn't like Comcast's TCP resets. Something far more egregious is going on in Canada, where Bell Canada has been engaged in deep-packet inspection of traffic. Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it says are congesting its network,...; Tags: Bell Canada, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Yahoo! frees the Monkey, and announces prizes for a Developer Challenge: In conversation with Yahoo! Research's Peter Mika last week, I jokingly suggested that Yahoo! Search's open developer platform, SearchMonkey, might open its doors to developers this week. Well, they just did, and went a step further by announcing a month-long Developer Challenge and prizes of up to $10,000 for innovative...; Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., Infobars, Search, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?: As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...; Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Commercialising the Semantic Web: Following an earlier post on this blog, last month I found myself moderating a panel in the final session of one of the tracks at this year's World Wide Web Conference in Beijing. As I commented via Twitter at the end of the session, "Great...; Tags: Garlik, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
UC Law bans classroom web access: I love having Internet access during my grad classes. I can get additional references for any information presented with a quick bit of Googling, I can examine alternate viewpoints, or I can look at last week's homework. Of course, I can also check my email, write a blog...; Tags: Web, Professor, Student, University Of Chicago Law School, Law School, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Google grabs for billions in pharma gold...: Google has asked all hacks to assemble at the Googleplex Monday 19th to hear about the state of search and also Google Health. That sounds like hearing about the health of Google and also its new service Google Health. Health is a tricky area for Google. I remember chatting...; Tags: Google Inc., Pharmaceutical Company, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Big Steve to keynote WWDC: Big Steve to keynote WWDCI have ideas on what will be announced[i]Anyone have any idea about what might be announced?[/i]The iPhone will come with a revolutionary technology that will communicate with satellites and tell the user exactly where they are on a little map. Jobs will call it iGPS and...; Tags: WWDC, Apple iPhone, developer; Discussion threads 2008-05-13
Wiretaps up, terrorism prosecutions down: We have been told that our very safety, our "homeland security," is dependent on the federal government having extraordinary powers to snoop, listen and search without the traditional (pronounced "constitutional") checks provided by judicial review. One part of this equation works as advertised – the incursion...; Tags: Terrorism, Terrorism Prosecution, Homeland Security, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-12
The physics of flocking in 3-D: You might think that bird watchers are only amateurs armed with binoculars. But biologists have also been studying flocks of birds for a long time. And now, they're helped by physicists, according to this New Scientist article about how European researchers are capturing flocks in 3-D. With a couple of...; Tags: 3D, Animal, Physicist, Handbook, Analysis, STARFLAG, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-12