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Big earthquakes trigger tremors worldwide: U.S. researchers who have studied 15 earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 7 since 1990 have found that at least 12 of them triggered smaller quakes thousands of miles away. Their study shows that large earthquakes routinely spark jolts worldwide, 'including on the opposite side of the planet and in areas...; Tags: Researcher, Wave, University Of Utah, Velasco, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-27
India to produce a molecular condom: Utah trade officials, headed by the state's Governor, are in India selling production rights to a "molecular condom" created at the University of Utah. The condom is actually a vaginal gel which is liquid at room temperature, becomes gelatinous at body temperature, and contains anti-HIV drugs which...; Tags: India, Utah, University Of Utah, Condom, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-10-30
The University of Utah Supports Cutting-Edge Research by Delivering 50 Percent More Work With Half the Power Consumption: University of Utah's Center for High Performance Computing CHPC supports the high-performance computing needs of research projects university-wide. The CHPC's aging high-performance computing cluster needed an upgrade; increasing demand for scientific research required a powerful cluster within the university's budget. The CHPC deployed a new high-performance computing cluster based on...; Tags: High-performance Computing, Power Consumption, High-performance, University Of Utah, CHPC, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Management; Case studies 2007-06-01
University of Utah HSC: Innovation in Patient Care: This webcast shows how the University of Utah Health Sciences Center uses consolidation, virtualization and HP OpenView with HP BladeSystems to better serve the public and improve health services.; Tags: Innovation, Patient, Hewlett-Packard Co., University Of Utah, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Hardware; White papers 2007-01-01
University of Utah Health Sciences: HP OpenView Service Driven Operations: This paper shows how HP OpenView reduces patient risk and improves application availability, increases operational efficiency, and aggregates disparate alerts to troubleshoot complex problems.; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Health Care, HP OpenView, University Of Utah, Utility Computing, It Management, It service Management; White papers 2007-01-01

Iterative Learning Control and Repetitive Control in Hard Disk Drive Industry - A Tutorial: This paper presents a tutorial on Iterative Learning Control ILC and Repetitive Control RC techniques in Hard Disk Drive HDD industry for compensation of Repeatable RunOuts RRO. After each tutorial, an application example is given. For ILC, a simple filtering-free implementation for written-in RRO compensation is presented. For the RC...; Tags: Hard Drive, Industry, Tutorial, University Of Utah, Productivity, Strategy, Management; White papers 2006-09-17
Mobile Emulab: A Robotic Wireless and Sensor Network Testbed: Simulation has been the dominant research methodology in wireless and sensor networking. When mobility is added, real-world experimentation is especially rare. However, it is becoming clear that simulation models do not sufficiently capture radio and sensor irregularity in a complex, real-world environment, especially indoors. Unfortunately, the high labor and equipment...; Tags: Mobile, Network, Sensor, Experimentation, University Of Utah, Simulation, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing; White papers 2006-04-01
ACT: A Low Power VLIW Cluster Coprocessor for DSP Applications: The ACT Adaptive Cellular Telephony coprocessor architecture is described and analyzed using a set of widely used DSP algorithms. Performance and power are compared to equivalent implementations on ASIC and embedded processor platforms. Flexibility is achieved by fine-grain program control of communication and execution resources. Compression techniques, simple addressing modes...; Tags: DSP, Coprocessor, VLIW, Flexibility, University Of Utah, ASICs, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; White papers 2006-01-20
Integrated Information Technology Strategic Plan: The Integrated Information Technology Strategic Plan presented in this paper is the result of ongoing agreement and consensus of representative faculty, students, and professional information technology staff to serve client needs within the scope and mission of the University of Utah. Information technology IT will support students and faculty in...; Tags: Information Technology, ITIL, University Of Utah, Strategy, Management; White papers 2005-08-08
VisTrails: Enabling Interactive Multiple-View Visualizations: VisTrails is a new system that enables interactive multiple-view visualizations by simplifying the creation and maintenance of visualization pipelines, and by optimizing their execution. It provides a general infrastructure that can be combined with existing visualization systems and libraries. A key component of VisTrails is the visualization trail vistrail, a...; Tags: Visualization, Pipeline, University Of Utah, VisTrails; White papers 2005-08-01
Designing a Better Web Portal for Digital Government: A Web-Mining Based Approach: This paper addresses an important research area in digital government development: intelligent design of digital government Web portals, a primary means of realizing the core function of digital government - online government service delivery. In particular, the paper proposes and studies the eservice selection problem and introduce a web-mining based...; Tags: e-Service, Web Portal, University Of Utah, Government, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Portals, Vertical Industries, Web Technology, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2005-03-22
QUALCOMM Case Study: University of Utah, Department of Anesthesiology: The University of Utah Department of Anesthesiology UUDA supplies anesthesia services for all of the university's operating rooms ORs. The UUDA wanted to be able to access and communicate immediately with its anesthesiologists. The UUDA rolled out 47 Treo 650 smartphones with Sprint CDMA2000 1X service to its faculty anesthesiologists....; Tags: Qualcomm Inc., University Of Utah, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware; Case studies
Meetinghouse Data Communications Case Study: University of Utah: The mission of the University of Utah is to educate the individual and to discover, refine, and disseminate knowledge. The vision of the university is one of eventual campus-wide WLAN coverage with secure, seamless roaming from building to building. By adopting an 802.1x-based approach it is felt that the University...; Tags: Meetinghouse, IEEE 802.1X, University Of Utah, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Wireless LANs, Security; Case studies
PowerDsine Case Study: The University of Utah: The University of Utah in Salt Lake City is considered one of the leading colleges in the United States. year. The University supports a high-speed, highly secure network with access to the Internet, an email system and a wealth of educational resources including Pioneer, the state of Utah's Online Library...; Tags: PowerDsine, University Of Utah, E-mail, Internet, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Online Communications, Networking; Case studies
Expected Data Rate: An Accurate High-Throughput Path Metric for Multi-Hop Wireless Routing: This paper presents a new metric, Expected Data Rate EDR, for accurately finding high-throughput paths in multihop ad hoc wireless networks. The metric is based upon a new model for transmission interference which is a critical factor in determining path throughput. This paper constructs a realistic and practical transmission interference...; Tags: Metric, University Of Utah, Transmission Interference, Wi-Fi, Wireless; White papers
Enhancing Cellular Multicast Performance Using Ad Hoc Networks: Although multicast communication is well-suited to shared wireless links, receiver heterogeneity impedes the use of multicast in wireless networks. This paper examines an approach that addresses the receiver heterogeneity problem in cellular multicast with the help of an additional IEEE 802.11 ad hoc network. The basic idea is to allow...; Tags: Advertisement, Performance, Network, Multicast, University Of Utah, Idea, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking; White papers
A Protocol Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks: Wireless Sensor Networks WSN is a new class of networking technology that is increasingly becoming popular nowadays. Huge strides taken in sensing technology, low-power microcontrollers and communication radio have spurred the mass production of relatively inexpensive sensor nodes. Such large scale sensor networks far outweigh use of conventional networks in...; Tags: Network, Sensor, University Of Utah, Wireless, Wireless Sensor Networks, Networking; White papers

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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