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More Than Just the Kappa Coefficient: A Program to Fully Characterize Inter-Rater Reliability Between Two Raters

The kappa coefficient is a widely used statistic for measuring the degree of reliability between raters. SAS procedures and macros exist for calculating kappa with two or more raters, but none address situations when the kappa coefficient alone does not sufficiently describe the level of reliability. When the prevalence of...

Tags: Coefficient, Statistic, Reliability, University Of Pittsburgh

White papers 2009-02-27

University of Pittsburgh Increases Security With Verizon Notification Services

The University of Pittsburgh had already been researching solutions for improved emergency communications. In particular, they were interested in notification services that send text messaging to a constituency of students, faculty, and staff. After the Virginia Tech incident, officials narrowed their focus to emergency communications. But they needed a system...

Tags: Security, Verizon Communications Inc., University Of Pittsburgh, Emergency Communication, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications

Case studies 2008-12-01

Generating electricity with polymers?

After yesterday, here is another story about using plastics as a power source. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are using ionic polymers immersed in a river to generate 'clean' electricity for the city of Vandergrift, Pennsylvania. If the project is successful, the city's downtown 'could one day get 20...

Tags: River, Polymer, University Of Pittsburgh, Vandergrift, Lisa Weiland, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-30

Roaming Honeypots for Mitigating Service-Level Denial-of-Service Attacks

Honeypots have been proposed to act as traps for malicious attackers. However, because of their deployment at fixed thus detectable locations and on machines other than the ones they are supposed to protect, honeypots can be avoided by sophisticated attacks. The paper proposes roaming honeypots, a mechanism that allows the...

Tags: University Of Pittsburgh, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2008-01-01

Supporting Flexible Streaming Media Protection Through Privacy-Aware Secure Processors

Due to the explosion of Internet technology in the last decade, there is an increasing demand for secure and effective Streaming Media Protection SMP in the new computing environment. Since end users usually have the full control of their machines, pure software based approaches such as user/password validation and group...

Tags: Aware, Privacy, University Of Pittsburgh, Streaming Media, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Media, Processors, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2007-10-28

Collaborative Example Authoring System: The Value of Re-Annotation Based on Community Feedback

Learning from examples is a common and powerful approach when mastering the art of programming. In the classroom studies of WebEx and NavEx, students highly praised the systems. However, the broader dissemination of this approach was not very successful due to the lack of content - annotated examples. This paper...

Tags: Annotation, Authoring System, University Of Pittsburgh, Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2007-10-15

A nanosensor to predict asthma attacks

Asthma is a common illness which affects at least 300 million people worldwide and which is responsible for about 200,000 deaths every year. But asthma attacks could be detected up to 3 weeks before they happen by testing regularly the breath of asthmatics. If the levels of nitric oxide increase,...

Tags: Nanotube, Handheld, Sensor, Breath, University Of Pittsburgh, Attack, Asthma, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-24

Providing Information and Resources Throughout a University

The University of Pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States. Students, faculty, staff, and student applicants needed secure, fast, organized, and user-friendly access to information from a variety of University resources. The my.pitt.edu portal was created using BEA AquaLogic User...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., University Of Pittsburgh, Portals, Web Technology, Internet

Case studies 2007-01-01

Overlay Service Architecture for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

Ad-hoc networks are an emerging technology with enormous potential. However, the lack of support for large-scale deployment of applications has hindered the adoption of these networks for commercial use. This paper addresses this shortcoming and details an architecture that supports largescale deployment of services in ad-hoc networks. A new class...

Tags: Mobile, Network, University Of Pittsburgh, Networking, Wireless

White papers 2004-08-24

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Partners With IBM to Make Tomorrow's Patient Care a Reality

IBM and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center UPMC saw the opportunity to combine and complement each other's strengths to forge a new generation of healthcare solution. UPMC, a leading IT innovator, sought to become a truly integrated, self-regulating healthcare system, utilizing evidence-based medicine to produce superb clinical outcomes and...

Tags: Patient, Health Care, University Of Pittsburgh, IBM Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

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BLAM: An Energy-Aware MAC Layer Enhancement for Wireless Adhoc Networks

In wireless adhoc networks channel and energy capacities are scarce resources. However, the design of the IEEE 802.11 DCF protocol leads to an inefficient utilization of these resources. This paper introduces BLAM, a new Battery Level Aware MAC protocol, which is developed from an energy-efficiency point of view to extend...

Tags: Aware, IEEE 802.11, MAC, Battery, University Of Pittsburgh, Engineering, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless

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University Speeds Application Delivery, Enhances Responsiveness With Virtualization

Offering a variety of academic programs in the arts and sciences and professional fields, the University of Pittsburgh has 12,000 faculty and staff members serving more than 34,000 students. The university's Computing Services and Systems Development CSSD department has just five IT staffers who support 1,000 computers and more than...

Tags: University Corp., Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Productivity, Utility Computing, Application Performance Management, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Storage

Case studies 2009-08-19

IT jobs outlook for 2009: The good and the bad

A depressing string of layoff announcements across the corporate world has gotten 2009 off to an inauspicious start. So what do the trends mean for IT employment in 2009? Here’s a sober look at both the good signs and the bad. â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"- ...

Tags: Job, Layoff, Information Technology, Salary, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-01-27

Fit and fat? Don't bet on it

Fit and fat? Don't bet on itI believe most Americans......not only do not have a good relationship with food, but are also just plain lazy. Not all Americans but definitely a majority. I used to live in OK. where the four food groups are: Beer, Grease, BBQ and Cigarettes. No...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Body-for-LIFE, calory

Discussion threads 2008-08-12

Games to make computers smarter

The Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist who gave us Peekaboom and worked on the "distorted letter" tests called CAPTCHAs, is back with several new games. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, he just launched a new site where you can play to so-called GWAPS -- short for "games with a purpose."...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Games, Personal Technology, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-18

Turning any monitor in to a 3D VR display

Turning any monitor in to a 3D VR displayFreaky and Far OutntMost Cool thing I have seen in awhileGeorge this has to be one of the coolest things I have seen in years. It is exciting to think of the possibilities, an the 3d effect was amazing. I can imagine...

Tags: Games, Webcam, Nintendo Wii, Wii Remote, monitor

Discussion threads 2008-01-25

Giant gas field found in the Appalachia

It's well known that the Marcellus black shale in northern Appalachia, which covers hundreds of square miles in five states (New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland and West Virginia), contains natural gas. But now, two U.S. researchers have discovered that the reserves are much bigger than previously thought. They estimate that...

Tags: U.S., Joint, Pennsylvania, Fracture, Natural Gas, Marcellus, J1, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-20

Mulberry open source code is now out

Fulfilling a promise made by developer Cyrus Daboo in April, Mulberry has placed the source code for its e-mail program online, under an Apache license. Mulberry began life as a Macintosh IMAP client but now has versions for Windows and Linux as well. It also supports a...

Tags: Program, E-mail, Wiki, Linux, Open Source, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-27

A watch to measure your stress

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University CMU and the University of Pittsburgh are using a wrist-mounted watch to measure stress. This watch, which is in fact a wearable computing system, contains several sensors that gather information about the user and his environment. Now it will be used to conduct 3-minute interviews...

Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Study, Stress, eWatch, Productivity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-10-18

The paradise of infinite music

Make that "Ever-receding paradise. . . ." “The Paradise of Infinite Storage” was the title of a panel at the “Pop [Music] and Policy” conference at McGill University in Montreal. Great title, so I downloaded it. . . . Princeton Professor Ed Felten was on...

Tags: Apple iPod, Infinity, Storage, Music, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-10-14