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- 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
- PILOT: A Power-Aware, Location Driven Traffic Forwarding Algorithm for MANETs
- This paper presents PILOT, a new data-forwarding algorithm for ad-hoc networks, that takes into consideration the change in location of the destination over time. PILOT is also power-aware and the rate of increase of the probability of forwarding is closely tied to the current energy level at the node. The...
- Tags: Algorithm, University Of Pittsburgh, Engineering
- White papers 2006-03-09
- Mitigating the Flooding Waves Problem in Energy-Efficient Routing for MANETs
- In wireless Mobile Adhoc NETworks MANETs channel and energy capacities are scarce resources, a lot of energy-efficient routing protocols for MANETs have been previously proposed to take into consideration the nodes' residual energies when establishing routes between source-destination pairs. This paper is not trying to introduce a new routing algorithm...
- Tags: Problem, University Of Pittsburgh, Engineering
- White papers 2005-11-19
- First Do No Harm: The Problem of Spyware
- This paper surveys the legislative landscape as of early 2005. Prompted by concerns over pop-up ads that were launched by third parties when users visited particular sites, the Utah legislature passed a spyware bill in 2003 that has been widely imitated in other states. Meanwhile, there has been a great...
- Tags: University Of Pittsburgh, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security
- White papers 2005-08-21
- Interactive Authoring Support for Adaptive Educational Systems
- A well-known challenge of adaptive educational systems is the need to develop intelligent content, which is very time and expertise consuming. In traditional approaches a teacher is kept at a distance from intelligent authoring. This paper advocates the involvement of teachers in creating intelligent content. The paper presents an approach...
- Tags: Approach, University Of Pittsburgh, Teacher, Productivity
- White papers 2005-04-29
- Mobile Agent-Based Services for View Materialization
- Mobile agents are ideal for mobile computing environments because of their ability to support asynchronous communication and disconnected data processing. This paper presents a prototype set of extensible mobile-agent based services that allow the definition, materialization, maintenance and sharing of views created over remote web-accessible datasources, called ViSMA (Views Supported...
- Tags: Mobile, University Of Pittsburgh, ViSMA, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2004-11-04
- University of Pittsburgh Schools Industry in HR, Financial Systems Innovation
- Like other organizations employing non-resident aliens, the University of Pittsburgh must comply with a complex combination of federal tax withholding requirements dictated by the individual's visa status, as well as bilateral tax treaties that vary from nation to nation. Having recently selected Oracle E-Business Suite for its human resources and...
- Tags: Innovation, Human Resources, Oracle Corp., Financial, Industry, Financial System, University Of Pittsburgh, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance
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- SBIR Awarded for RFID Technology Manufacturer
- FirstLink supported the business and proposal development process for Intelligistics, a start-up company based in Southwestern Pennsylvania, to help them receive an SBIR award. Intelligistics is a technology company with expertise and knowledge of advanced material technology, innovative packaging systems design, automatic identification technology known as Radio Frequency Identification RFID,...
- Tags: University Of Pittsburgh, Intelligistics, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
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- 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, Partnership, Health Care, University Of Pittsburgh, IBM Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance
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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, Protocol, University Of Pittsburgh, Engineering, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless
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- Google opens Knol website, a wiki with bylines
- In a direct challenge to the popular Wikipedia, Google opened Knol, an encyclopedia-like wiki site that requires writers to post their names and expertise. SAN FRANCISCO--Google opened its website Knol to the public on Wednesday, allowing people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a...
- Tags: Google Inc., DuPont Co., Web Site, Wikipedia, Knol, Wiki, Online Communications, Reuters, Google, encyclopedia
- News items 2008-07-24
- 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws
- In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...
- Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Is this the New Apple?
- PowerPage podcaster Youngmoo Kim relays his experience with trying to get an iPhone 3G and on being an "IRU" Individual Responsible User. Apple just doesn't want me to have an iPhone 3G. After a few half-hearted attempts bailing at the sight of long lines, I spent about two hours...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., IRU, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- 10 hard drive disasters
- Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard drives, according to a data recovery company. Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard...
- Tags: Hard Drive, hard drives, data recovery, Dan Ilett, Silicon.com
- News items 2008-07-22
- The key barrier to health care reform
- The key barrier to health care reformReducing residenciesHey, at least Georgia [b]has[/b] residencies. Arizona's University Hospital has, thanks to Andrew Weil, turned all of its general practice residencies into NCCAAM-funded "alternative health care" training programs.If you think it's bad now, wait until your insurance only covers "therapeutic touch" and...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, barrier, health care, residency, physician
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Towards low-cost LED lighting
- You all know that incandescent bulbs are pretty inefficient, converting only 10% of electricity into light -- and 90% into heat. Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, could soon replace incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs in our homes. They are more efficient and environmentally friendly. But LED lights are currently too expensive...
- Tags: Purdue University, Silicon, LED Lighting, Light-emitting Diode, Silicon Substrate, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.I guess the video maker is contesting that the polar ice isnt meltingntHe showing that you're dumber than dirtYou don't even realize that the ice displaces more volume than liquid water and the melting makes the...
- Tags: wind energy, neighborly concern, ice, thin air
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
- Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions
- Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictionsProxies"By using a proxy, you can bypass any filtering software on the network"Only if they're incompetent. I work for a company that has hardware that a proxy wouldn't get around the rules, even if it's SSL.Your statement about proxies is wrong.If the university simply sets a...
- Tags: INTERNET, Workforce management, Untrustworthy student, Untrustworthy
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
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