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Photos: New microbot can levitate, pick up tiny objects

Nanobot developed by researchers at University of Waterloo, Ontario, can "fly" using magnetic levitation. by CNET News.com

Tags: University Of Waterloo, Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-04-14

Policy-Based Security Configuration Management Application to Intrusion Detection and Prevention

Intrusion Detection and/or Prevention Systems IDPS represent an important line of defense against the variety of attacks that can compromise the security and well functioning of an enterprise information system. IDPSes can be network or host-based and can collaborate in order to provide better detections of malicious traffic. Although several...

Tags: University Of Waterloo, Security Configuration, Intrusion Detection, Security

White papers 2008-10-22

An Evaluation of Storage Load Balancing Alternatives for Database Systems

Modern relational DataBase Systems DBMSes are often a critical part of the IT infrastructure for many enterprises. In many cases, the success of an IT system is highly dependent on the performance of its database systems. The choice of how database objects, e.g. tables and indexes, are assigned to disks...

Tags: I/O, University Of Waterloo, Database System, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-02-01

Requirements for XML Document Database Systems

The shift from SGML to XML has created new demands for managing structured documents. Many XML documents will be transient representations for the purpose of data exchange between different types of applications, but there will also be a need for effective means to manage persistent XML data as a database....

Tags: XML Document, University Of Waterloo, XML Database, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

White papers 2008-01-01

Using Object-Oriented Techniques for Realizing Parallel Architectural Skeletons

The concept of design patterns has recently emerged as a new paradigm in the context of object-oriented design methodology. Similar ideas are being explored in other areas of computing. In the parallel computing domain, design patterns describe recurring parallel computing problems and their solution strategies. Starting with the late 1980's,...

Tags: Design Pattern, Object-oriented Design, University Of Waterloo, Object-oriented, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2008-01-01

iCalCopy 1.0 (Mac)

AppleScript application copies all events and to do items from one iCal calendar to another. It is useful, for example, for copying events from an existing local calendar to a new calendar on a CalDAV server.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, University Of Waterloo, Calendar, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2007-11-21

Adaptive Mobility Management for IP/MPLS-Based Wireless Networks: A Proposal and Analysis

This paper proposes a new adaptive MPLS-enabled micro-mobility management scheme designed to track efficiently the mobility of nodes so as to minimize both handoff latency and total signaling cost while ensuring the mobile node's QoS requirements. To achieve this, the paper introduces a new concept called residing area. Accordingly, the...

Tags: QoS, MPLS, Network, University Of Waterloo, Mobility, IP, Analysis, Wireless Network, Wireless, Network Technology, Networking, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2007-03-22

Database Virtualization: A New Frontier for Database Tuning and Physical Design

Resource virtualization is currently being employed at all levels of the IT infrastructure to improve provisioning and manageability, with the goal of reducing total cost of ownership. This means that database systems will increasingly be run in virtualized environments, inside virtual machines. In this paper, the authors discuss how virtualization...

Tags: University Of Waterloo, Resource Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2007-01-19

Learning With Hypergraphs: Clustering, Classification, and Embedding

The authors usually endow the investigated objects with pairwise relationships, which can be illustrated as graphs. Naively squeezing the complex relationships into pairwise ones will inevitably lead to loss of information which can be expected valuable for the learning tasks however. Therefore it considers using hypergraphs in-stead to completely represent...

Tags: Clustering, University Of Waterloo, Classification

White papers 2006-11-19

Interworking of 3G Cellular Networks and Wireless LANs

The third Generation (3G) cellular networks provide ubiquitous connectivity but low data rates, whereas Wireless Local Area Networks WLANs can offer much higher data rates but only cover smaller geographic areas. Their complementary characteristics make the integration of the two networks a promising trend for next-generation wireless networks. With combined...

Tags: Network, 3G Network, University Of Waterloo, WLAN, Cellular Network, LANs, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking

White papers 2006-05-26

Gateway Placement Optimization in Wireless Mesh Networks With QoS Constraints

In a Wireless Mesh Network WMN, the traffic is aggregated and forwarded towards the gateways. Strategically placing and connecting the gateways to the wired backbone is critical to the management and efficient operation of a WMN. This paper addresses the problem of gateways placement, consisting in placing a minimum number...

Tags: QoS, Gateway Inc., Optimization, Network, Gateway, University Of Waterloo, Mesh Networking, Engineering, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking

White papers 2006-05-01

Open Network Administrator (ONA) - A Web-Based Network Management Tool

This paper presents Open Network Administrator ONA, a web-based network management tool. Network administrators interact with ONA over the web, and ONA interacts with routers, switches and access points, using telnet and/or SNMP. ONA provides a common web interface to a number of different vendors' network products, and provides granular...

Tags: Web, Network, Network Management Tool, University Of Waterloo, Tool, Network Administrator, Network Management, Open Network Administrator, Network Administration, Networking, Channel Management, Marketing

White papers 2005-11-13

Additional Resources

Gates discusses next generation of technology with students

Former Microsoft chief executive, Bill Gates, spoke to the University of Waterloo on Saturday to discuss the future of technology, the web and desktop applications, after last visiting the university in 2005. Oh the joy. Unfortunately I couldn't be there to meet him after the lecture as...

Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Internet, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-02-22

Can the Apple logo make you more creative?

Apparently so, according to yesterday's Science Daily. In a recent study by Duke University and the University of Waterloo, Canada, researchers found that even brief exposure to established brands can cause people to inherit the behaviors championed by those brands. Or in other words, exposure to the...

Tags: Logo, Brand, Apple Inc., Branding, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-03-31

Google demands more tax breaks for server farm rule

Google really is number one, in more ways than one.For the first time, Google has surpassed Microsoft as the worlds most visited Internet property. Online measurement firm comScore Networks found that Google had just over a million more unique users in March: Google had 528 million unique visitors in March,...

Tags: Microsoft, Google, Internet Data

Blog posts 2007-04-25

Microsoft reaches out with WGA help

Microsoft reaches out with WGA helphow so?When I purchased XP from CompUSA, it came with a number and was activated years ago. Now it comes up as invalid. How can a link check my system and then me reinstalling the COA? It hasn't changed? I haven't updated the system? How...

Tags: Firewalls, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, YUM, Microsoft Corp., Linux firewall, Microsoft Windows XP, Linux, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, firewall, computer, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-07-24

Airlines ban cell phones -- but why?

Airlines ban cell phones -- but why?cell phones on aircraft...I ahve been in the industry cell pohnes working as an engineer for over 15 years.This is a response by me of an email i recieved about the possibilty of using cell pohnes in aircraft.the original email referenced this article...http://www.physics911.net/projectachilles.htma test...

Tags: Cellular phones, cell phone, cell, phone

Discussion threads 2006-07-14

RIM releases BlackBerry workaround design

RIM releases BlackBerry workaround designGOODI am sick of these patent holding companies like NTP, Eolas, etc, etc who develop ideas - which is great - but then they do nothing with them. They exist only to simply sit by and wait for someone who can actually accomplish something do...

Tags: NTP, Research In Motion Ltd., patent, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2006-02-09

Supreme Court rejects BlackBerry appeal

Supreme Court rejects BlackBerry appealshame on the Supreme Court!I can't understand how this court buys into the validity of those stupid patents, especially when they are about to be invalidated.I guess M$ passed a lot of bribes to hurt BlackBerry since it's the only one to benefit from this situation.I...

Tags: Handhelds, RIM BlackBerry, Research In Motion Ltd., NTP

Discussion threads 2006-01-23