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- Multicast Group Communication as a Base for a Load-Balancing Replicated Data Service
- This paper gives a rigorous account of an algorithm that provides sequentially consistent replicated data on top of the view synchronous group communication service previously specified by Fekete, Lynch and Shvartsman. The algorithm performs updates at all members of a majority view, but rotates the work of queries among the...
- Tags: Data Service, Algorithm, Load Balancing, University Of Sydney, Engineering
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Privacy and Security in Ubiquitous Personalized Applications
- Personalization systems provide customized service based on user preferences. In ubiquitous computing environments, personalization can be achieved based on user preferences stored on mobile devices. This requires a mechanism for capturing user information and making it available to users. However, storing and exchanging potentially personal information raises user privacy concerns....
- Tags: Ubiquitous Computing, Privacy, Personalization, University Of Sydney, Security
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Aesthetic Data Visualization as a Resource for Educating Creative Design
- Data visualization is usually considered an expert field reserved for the computer science or data analysis specialist. In contrast, this paper argues that the approaches and theories from data visualization can form a rich contextual resource for teaching creative design principles to students. A conceptual data mapping model is proposed...
- Tags: Data Visualization, University Of Sydney, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-08-21
- Resource-Aware Distributed Online Data Mining for Wireless Sensor Networks
- Online data mining in wireless sensor networks is concerned with the problem of extracting knowledge from a large continuous amount of data streams with an in-network processing mode. Unlike other types of networks, the limited computational resources require the mining algorithms to be highly efficient and compact. The paper proposes...
- Tags: Algorithm, Aware, Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless, University Of Sydney, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Engineering, Databases, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing
- White papers 2007-07-31
- Qualities of Perceived Aesthetic in Data Visualization
- Through results gathered from a large-scale online survey, this paper empirically investigates the assessment of aesthetic in 11 common data visualization techniques. Visualizations represented in this study were generated from an identical hierarchical dataset and visually normalized to avoid unwanted implications of default application parameters or personal preferences. Results from...
- Tags: Data Visualization, University Of Sydney, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-05-03
- Robotics con at University of Sydney
- If you love all things robotic and are in Sydney, Australia check out the Computing the Future Symposium at the University of Sydney today. The symposium, reports The Sydney Morning Herald has leading roboticists discussing how robotics will impact everything from the military to domestic environments. Future scenarios envisioned...
- Tags: robotics, University of Sydney
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- A Security Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks
- Wireless sensor networks are result of developments in micro electro mechanical systems and wireless networks. These networks are made of tiny nodes which are becoming future of many applications where sensor networks are deployed in hostile environments. The deployment nature where sensor networks are prone to physical interaction with environment...
- Tags: Network, Wireless Sensor Network, University Of Sydney, Sensor Network, Security Measure, Security, Wireless
- White papers 2006-02-09
- An Application Framework for Collaborative Learning
- This paper presents the design of a new application framework for collaborative learning. The framework guides teachers in implementing online activities based on well-known pedagogical techniques, to accomplish their educational objectives within a certain educational setting, and simplifies the development of collaboration tools needed to carry out those techniques. There...
- Tags: Technique, Application Framework, Framework, University Of Sydney, Productivity
- White papers 2005-02-11
Additional Resources
- Hands on with Outlook Live: universities choose Microsoft over Google
- Universities are increasingly moving away from in-house email and communications systems, and moving towards externally hosted systems. While that may have sounded like utter garbage and geek speak, it means universities can't afford or cope with their own email systems, so they're letting Microsoft and Google do it for them...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Accessing Internet at 640 Gb/s?
- University of Sydney physicists have developed an optical chip that could potentially improve 'Internet speeds to up to 100 times faster than current Australia's networks.' According to the Sydney Morning Herald, these chalcogenide glass photonic chips will be very cheap to produce as they're based on plain glass. As said...
- Tags: Glass, Network, Signal Processing, Chip, CUDOS, Internet, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-12
- Finding where a photo has been shot
- It's not the first time that Carnegie Mellon University CMU researchers play with Flickr image collections. Last year, they've used Flickr to edit our photos. Now, they're trying to estimate the geographic location of a single photo by comparing it to a database of 6 million pictures accurately geolocated by...
- Tags: Algorithm, Carnegie-Mellon University, Flickr, Vision, Photograph, Image, Computer, Computer Vision, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- A 100-million-year dragon killer
- Komodo dragons are one of the largest living species of lizards, growing to a length of up to 3 meters and weighing around 70 kilograms. They're living on several central Indonesian islands for more than 100 million years. Why are they still alive? According to an international team of researchers,...
- Tags: Researcher, Species, Komodo, UNSW, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- 2007 year in review: 10 most popular posts
- Due to the lack of news during this time of year and a gentle prod from my ZDNet editors I thought it would be fun to look back at some of the most popular posts here on The Social Web in 2007. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of these posts were also...
- Tags: Second Life, Facebook, Site, MySpace, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-12-28
- The karaoke cure
- My kids hate my singing. Whenever I open my voice, in a car or at home, they instantly tell me to zip the lips. They are typical. Professional singers perform much better than the rest of us. We think of singing as audience members,...
- Tags: Kid, Telecommunications, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- ADSL at 250 megabits per second?
- Some of you are old enough to remember that it was usual to catch a conversation between complete strangers when you were calling someone on the phone. This phenomenon, called cross-talk, also affects ADSL broadband connections today. But according to the Sydney Morning Herald, an Australian researcher, John Papandriopoulos, has...
- Tags: Algorithm, Phone, Network, University Of Melbourne, ADSL, John Cioffi, DSL, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- Repelling bullets with nanotube armors
- Australian engineers have found a way to use the elasticity of carbon nanotubes to not only stop bullets penetrating material but actually rebound their force. Their anti-ballistic carbon nanotubes are very different from the current materials used to design bullet-proof jackets, such as Kevlar, Twaron or Dyneema fibers. Current jackets...
- Tags: Nanotube, Bullet, Carbon Nanotube, Jacket, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- Besieged by HP's derogations, laser printer emissions whistleblower fights back
- Meet Queensland University of Technology's Professor Lidia Morawski. She's the researcher that, by sheer chance, discovered that certain laser printers including a bunch from HP were emitting an unusually high volume of ultrafine particles -- so many that she deemed them to be a potential source of respiratory irritation,...
- Tags: Printer, Hewlett-Packard Co., Laser Printer, Particle, Health Care, Laser, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
- Emissions from popular laser printers may be carcinogenic. How will HP respond?
- Emissions from popular laser printers may be carcinogenic. How will HP respond?Everything on God's green earth...Everything on God's green earth produces something harmful to others...!Headline:Warning to all computer users. Excessive reading of ZDNet causes excess spurious emissions of light energy from laptop screens which causes blindness in lab animals.This is...
- Tags: Printers, laser, printer, ozone, Hewlett-Packard Co., laser printer
- Discussion threads 2007-08-02
- Emissions from popular laser printers may be carcinogenic. How will HP respond?
- Two years ago, I pondered whether the bill cell phone companies were the next "big tobacco" after it had come to light that cellco's were over-meddling in the work of independent researchers at the University of Washington. Not only did cellco's look to discredit the research before it was...
- Tags: Printer, Hewlett-Packard Co., Laser Printer, Laser, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Holograms used to test your vision
- Australian researchers have developed a test that uses holograms to diagnose the astigmatic error of the human eye. 'In this new test, patients view a hologram consisting of sunburst patterns; by reporting which sunburst lines appear clearest, the eye doctor can obtain information he or she can use in determining...
- Tags: Health &, Medicine, Science &, Nature
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
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