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Nanospheres moving faster than light?: In recent years, I don't think I've spent a month without a report about a new way to exceed the speed of light. Yesterday, University of Pennsylvania researchers announced a theoretical way to increase the speed of pulses of light which could bring optical computing closer to reality. The scientists...; Tags: Team, Bandwidth, Researcher, University Of Pennsylvania, Theory, Nanoparticle, Particle, Penn, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-08-20
AntiECN Marking: A Marking Scheme for High Bandwidth Delay Connections: This paper describes a simple scheme that uses feedback from underutilized high capacity links to allow a TCP connection to aggressively increase its sending rate. The feedback is in the form of a single bit in the packet header and is given per packet. The scheme uses aggregate information to...; Tags: Bandwidth, University Of Pennsylvania, TCP, Scheme, Tcp/Ip, Routers & Switches, Networking, Network Technology; White papers 2008-01-01
Actin Network Architecture and Elasticity in Lamellipodia of Melanoma Cells: Cell migration is an essential element in the immune response on the one hand and in cancer metastasis on the other hand. The architecture of the actin network in lamellipodia determines the elasticity of the leading edge and contributes to the regulation of migration. The paper has implemented a new...; Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Network, Elasticity, Migration, Cell Migration, Networking; White papers 2007-05-19
Out of Stock?: It Might Be Your Employee Payroll - Not Your Supply Chain - That's to Blame: Customers get lower satisfaction from their shopping experience when stores have too few employees and, more importantly, when stores lack employees who are knowledgeable about what's in the store. After analyzing the results of the study, the researchers suggest that a "Modest reallocation of the payroll budget among stores" in...; Tags: Supply Chain, Employee, Researcher, University Of Pennsylvania, Payroll, Operational Accounting, Finance; White papers 2007-04-04
Distributed Uplink Scheduling in CDMA Networks: As mobile devices grow more powerful and diverse in the applications they run, it becomes increasingly desirable to give them some independence in scheduling their transmissions. The latest release of the CDMA2000 1xEV-DO system incorporates a number of mechanisms that afford mobile devices some flexibility in making uplink transmission decisions....; Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, CDMA, Mobile Device, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing; White papers 2006-12-13

Retail Store Execution: An Empirical Study: This paper describes a methodology by which a retailer can identify action steps that are likely to increase sales and customer satisfaction and demonstrate the methodology using proprietary data from a large retailer with over 500 stores. The paper uses monthly store-level data on a number of operational variables including...; Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Retail Company, Customer Satisfaction, Retail, Sales Strategy, Product Marketing, Sales, Marketing; White papers 2006-12-01
Watching the brain under stress: According to this news release from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, researchers have for the first time "visualized the effects of everyday psychological stress in a healthy human brain." They used the fMRI functional magnetic resonance imaging technique and found that there is a strong link between psychological...; Tags: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Blog posts 2005-11-22
Realizing the Benefits of User-Level Channel Diversity: This paper explores the potential benefits of "user-level" channel diversity solutions that instead of dedicating one channel to each user, let all users distribute their packet transmissions across all channels. The paper identifies that the channel configurations for which channel diversity affords meaningful benefits are fortunately also those where it...; Tags: Channel, University Of Pennsylvania, Benefits, Human Resources; White papers 2005-09-06
Shared Resources for Robust Speech-to-Text Technology: This paper describes ongoing efforts at Linguistic Data Consortium to create shared resources for improved speech-to-text technology. Under the DARPA EARS program, technology providers are charged with creating STT systems whose outputs are substantially richer and much more accurate than is currently possible. These aggressive program goals motivate new approaches...; Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Telecom & Utilities; White papers 2005-03-22
University of Pennsylvania Saves $64.1 Million With Oracle E-Business Suite: Founded by Benjamin Franklin, the University of Pennsylvania is one of the world's leading academic institutions and the first university founded in the U.S. As a major research institution with 12 schools and 20 business units, Penn has complex procurement requirements. The university wanted to reduce costs while gaining the...; Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations; Case studies
The University of Pennsylvania Health System: Projecting a Pioneering Tradition Into an Ambitious Future: The University of Pennsylvania Health System is a leader in medicine for more than 230 years -supporting the healthcare needs of Philadelphia and five counties in the surrounding area. The University needed to replace a network that was already being stretched for bandwidth with one capable of supporting the bandwidth-intensive...; Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Health Care, University Of Pennsylvania Health System, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; Case studies
University of Pennsylvania Speeds Order Transmission With RightFax and Oracle: Founded in 1740, the University of Pennsylvania is America's first university and one of the country's most prestigious institutions of higher education. With a large student body to support and a reputation for administrative excellence, the University of Pennsylvania's Purchasing Services department realized the need to implement an automated document...; Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Oracle Corp., Captaris Inc., Fax, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations; Case studies
DHARMA: Distributed Home Agent for Robust Mobile Access: Mobile wireless devices have intermittent connectivity, sometimes intentional. This is a problem for conventional Mobile IP, beyond its well-known routing inefficiencies and deployment issues. DHARMA selects a location-optimized instance from a distributed set of home agents to minimize routing overheads; set management and optimization are done using the PlanetLab overlay...; Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Microsoft Access, Mobile, Agent, Mobile IP, DHARMA, Advertising & Promotion, Real Estate, Networking, Wireless, Marketing, Business Operations; White papers
Forming Connected Topologies in Bluetooth Adhoc Networks: This paper explores the problem of forming connected topologies, in adhoc networks built on the Bluetooth technology. Providing connectivity, when feasible, is the most basic requirement for any system aimed at allowing devices to communicate with each other. The paper illustrates that this seemingly innocuous goal gives rise to many...; Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Topology, Connected Corp., Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless; White papers
Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide: The Online Privacy Issue: Debating online privacy isn't merely a philosophical exercise. Companies collect reams of information about visitors to their websites and about their customers' web-surfing ways. A person may be able to hide his or her visits to offbeat, or off-color, websites from his or her spouse, but can't hide them from...; Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Online Privacy, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Government, Internet; White papers
University of Pennsylvania Streamlines Procurement, Saving $7.8 Million: The University of Pennsylvania Penn is a highly-regarded institution of higher learning - from its undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools to its interdisciplinary research and scholarship programs. The university wanted to enable mass supplier content by extending the breadth of the existing Web-based supplier exchange and enhance the value of...; Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Oracle Corp., Supplier, Procurement, Channel Management, Purchasing & Procurement, Marketing, Business Operations; Case studies

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LHC scientists get death threats: So it's come to this: Death threats against physicists. About what? The earth-destroying Large Hadron Collider, of course. Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University,...; Tags: Black Hole, Physicist, Scientist, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-09-05
What the fight against cancer really needs: What the fight against cancer really needsSadly this is where a problem existsCuring cancer would be great on the human level. But it doesn't make good business sense for doctors and pharmaceutical companies that rely on patients to make money. Much like many other diseases, it's more profitable to keep...; Tags: cure, pharmaceutical company, patient, government; Discussion threads 2008-09-05
Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea: Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and providers, all open to a "certain type" of person - employees or students. By having a single sign-on SSO point...; Tags: Software, Password Management, Mozilla Firefox, Password, Single Sign-on, RoboForm Enterprise, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-09-05
From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture: The appliance computing culture earned its successes by focusing on the revenue generation side - and that, in turn, drove its own evolution to database technology, the "application as interfaces to data" view, and tight evolutionary links between University research groups and companies like DEC and DG. by Paul Murphy; Tags: Job, Processor, Database, Mainframes, Recruitment & Selection, Servers, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-09-05