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- An Evaluation of Server Consolidation Workloads for Multi-Core Designs
- While chip multiprocessors with ten or more cores will be feasible within a few years, the search for applications that fully exploit their attributes continues. In the meantime, one sure-fire application for such machines will be to serve as consolidation platforms for sets of workloads that previously occupied multiple discrete...
- Tags: Workload, Multi-core, University Of Wisconsin-Madison, Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-07-13
- Teaching nanoscience to the blind
- Nanoscale objects are much too small for us to see them. So, according to educators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, nanotechnology is a research field where blind students and sighted ones are equal. After all, "were all blind at the nanoscale," says a member of the educational team. Theyve built...
- Tags: Social Sciences, Science &, Nature, Nanotechnology, Engineering &, Innovation
- Blog posts 2007-03-31
- Wireless Virtualization on Commodity 802.11 Hardware
- This paper describes specific challenges in virtualizating a wireless network and multiple strategies to address them. Among different possible wireless virtualization strategies, the current work in this domain is focussed on a Time-Division Multiplexing TDM approach. Hence, the paper presents the experiences in the design and implementation of such TDM-based...
- Tags: IEEE 802.11, University Of Wisconsin-Madison, Wireless Virtualization System, Virtualization, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2006-12-29
- 3-D flexible computer chips
- Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have isolated a single-crystal film of semiconductor from the substrate on which it is built. Then they transferred this very thin film -- 200 nanometers thick -- on plastic. Both sides of the film can host active components and several layers can be stacked,...
- Tags: semiconductor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Blog posts 2006-07-23
- Riding the Moovada
- Would you drive a sport utility vehicle SUV if you could get 35 miles per gallon -- less than 7 liters per 100 km? This is the level of efficiency reached by the Moovada, a SUV modified by engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the Challenge X sponsored by...
- Tags: Moovada
- Blog posts 2006-06-09
- Clocking the movements of atoms
- With their special microscopes, scientists and engineers involved in nanotechnologies have been able to 'see' atoms for a while. But they couldn't clock these atoms' response to events which typically occur in nanoseconds. Now, U.S. physicists have found a way to clock the movements of atoms at the nanometer scale....
- Tags: atom, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Blog posts 2006-05-20
- Recent Advances in Network Intrusion Detection System Tuning
- This paper describes a traffic generation framework for online evaluation and tuning network intrusion detection systems over a wide range of realistic conditions. The framework integrates both benign and malicious traffic, enabling generation of IP packet streams with diverse characteristics from the perspective of packet content both header and payload,...
- Tags: Network Intrusion Detection System, Packet, Network, Intrusion Detection System, University Of Wisconsin-Madison, Traffic Generation, Intrusion Detection, Security, Network Security, Networking
- White papers 2006-02-24
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- Approximately 800 vulnerabilities discovered in antivirus products
- In what appears to be either a common scenario of "when the security solution ends up the security problem itself", or a product launch basing its strategy on outlining the increasing number of critical vulnerabilities found in competing antivirus products, the IT/Security consulting firm n.runs AG claims to have discovered...
- Tags: Antivirus Product, Antivirus, Vulnerability, Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Study: Offshore outsourcing dings customer satisfaction; Taking back office offshore ok
- A trio of professors working with the national Quality Research Center at the University of Michigan finds that offshore outsourcing hurts customer service ratings, but farming out back office operations has a limited impact. The working paper, conducted by the University of Michigan as well as Nasscom,...
- Tags: Offshore, Customer Service, Offshore Outsourcing, Customer Satisfaction, Back-office, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Product Marketing, Operational Accounting, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Hardcore math at the speed of the Net
- From its inception, the Internet has been about connecting researchers and research institutions to each other (and, of course, about national defense). As the Web continues to explode, though, it's interesting to see how new generations of researchers work, collaborate, and criticize online. A particular example...
- Tags: Proof, Mathematician, Li, Web 2.0, Wiki, Blogging, Channel Management, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Your computer as your singing coach
- Israeli researchers have developed an electronic ear to coach vibrato technique. Until now, the quality of a vibrato -- the pulsating change of pitch in a singer's voice -- could only be judged by voice experts. Now, a Tel Aviv University research team 'has successfully managed to train a computer...
- Tags: Researcher, Quality, Teacher, Computer, TAU, Productivity, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-05
- Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency
- They're even talking about it on the radio now--can Detroit automakers survive? If you listened to this show on NPR the future of Chrysler is south of bleak. Ford and GM may just be bigger and have more blood to lose. The local Detroit paper's headline: auto sales...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Automobile Company, Plug-in, Fuel Cells, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain
- Larry Dignan pours lukewarm water on Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset. Talking about Google's near monopoly in the search market, Larry says: Microsoft can reinvent search, but it's still running up a natural Google monopoly. The analogy here is Windows: Microsoft didn't have the best operating system on the planet....
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Wiki, Document Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Speech Recognition, Channel Management, Search, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Investment, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer
- So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...
- Tags: Thinking Machines, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Astronaut, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- About that cellular interference...
- So... maybe it is a real problem. Pedram Amini top picture on the right, noted researcher and reverse engineer, posted an article to the Tipping Point DVLabs blog on some interesting observations he made on cellular interference. From the article, Pedram comments on the discovery: "I had...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Researcher, Laptop Computer, Pedram Amini, Keyboards, Notebooks, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Google curbs essay-writing service advertisements
- Corporations over time gain social responsibility for the products they release: Microsoft and their report abuse features, Facebook and their privacy settings, and now Google are adding more to the list. I spoke some time ago about plagiarism, more on a positive note, considering the use of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Essay, Advertisement, Plagiarism, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 1: USA
- Eek, from Slashdot today: The FBI has confirmed to Popular Mechanics that it's not only adding palm prints to its criminal records, but preparing to balloon its repository of photos, which an agency official says 'could be the basis for our facial recognition.' It's all part of a new...
- Tags: FBI, Privacy, Washington Post Co., Slashdot, Government, Federal Government, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Your correspondence so far
- It's been just over a month now since I started writing here, and it's certainly been an interesting one. I've had many emails over the last month asking me this, that and the other, not even a single death threat yet! I'd like to share some questions and my answers...
- Tags: Web Server, Operating System, Server, Microsoft Corp., Q., E-mail, Web Servers, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Online Communications, Internet, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- Cell phones tracking nightlife activity
- A Columbia University computer science professor has co-founded a New York-based company named Sense Networks to sell tracking software to other companies. It is also distributing a free version of this software named Citysense, which shows on your cell phone where the wild things are happening in your own town....
- Tags: Application, Phone, Columbia University, Cell Phone, Macrosense, GPS, Cellular Phones, Sales Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- Biometric IDs for African penguins?
- University of Bristol researchers have developed a non-intrusive visual surveillance system for wildlife habitats. They've used their system to monitor the behavior of 20,000 African penguins on Robben Island in South Africa. By definition, conventional tagging techniques can only monitor animals which have been tagged. On the contrary, the 'Penguin...
- Tags: Chest, Monitor, Researcher, Camera, Species, African, Image-recognition System, Monitors & Displays, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-28
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