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- Carnegie Mellon wins the Urban Challenge
- And the winner is ... Sunday, DARPA announced the winning teams in the super-challenging robot car race the Urban Challenge. The big boys are: In first place, Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing Team. Prize: $2 million. Second place: the Stanford...
- Tags: Virginia Tech, Carnegie-Mellon University, Robot, Minute, Robots, Team Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- E-textiles to monitor your health
- Virginia Tech VT researchers have been busy developing efficient e-textiles -- electronic textiles and clothing with embedded wires and sensors -- for six years now. Their computerized clothing can monitor your movements, sensing if you're walking, running, standing, or sitting down. Of course, this kind of clothing has a wide...
- Tags: Virginia Tech, Monitor, Researcher, Sensor, Health Care, Computer, E-textiles, Wearer, Jumpsuit, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- Rutgers, Va. Tech join forces on digital archive
- Rutgers University librarians are helping to create a digital archive of thousands of artifacts collected after the Virginia Tech massacre, The Star-Ledger reports. Among the artifacts being captured: some of the folder paper cranes that students and others made as a symbol of peace after the killings. ...
- Tags: Virginia Tech, Artifact, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- VT Web Cams (widget)
- A Web cam widget that features two cameras from the Virginia Tech campus. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Web, Virginia Tech, Channel Management, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-06-18
- CA plan for campus-wide alert systems, in wake of Va. Tech shootings
- Could the Virginia Tech shootings have been avoided with better alerting systems? California Lt. Gov. John Garamendi thinks so, reports the AP. Garamendi is talking to cellular telephone companies about establishing a system to alert cell phone users to emergencies on college campuses in California. He said the...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- My Virginia Tech posts: apologies and clarifications
- My Virginia Tech posts: apologies and clarificationsHuman nature.An innate interest in violent disaster does exist, no question. But is satisfying that interest a necessity or an indulgence?You wrote:"My point was it was the urgency of this story, and people needing to see it…"The people who needed to see it...
- Tags: Virginia Tech
- Discussion threads 2007-04-17
- My Virginia Tech posts: apologies and clarifications
- Yesterday, in my first post on the lack of availability of indexed and searchable video about the Virginia Tech tragedy I started out by writing in part:Evil. Pure evil. The sheer numbers inform a tragedy that is so much more profound than any discussion of the technologies used to stream...
- Tags: Streaming media, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Journalists look to bloggers for Virginia Tech story
- Journalists look to bloggers for Virginia Tech storyJack Thompson Opens His FAT Mouth AgainOnce again, the blame is on violent video games from this idiot politician...Just shut up...so was the college shooting in Texas in the 1960's to be blamed on video games too?There's a Huge downsideI'm a blogger, too,...
- Tags: Games, Blogging, Corporate communications, Now IT, Jack Thompson, blogger, video game, game, video, Virginia Tech, blog
- Discussion threads 2007-04-16
- Broadband video sites post Virginia Tech shooting coverage
- Twenty-nine dead.Evil. Pure evil. The sheer numbers inform a tragedy that is so much more profound than any discussion of the technologies used to stream it to the Web- where workaday Americans can watch it.But just in case you are interested, ABC News seems to have the most conclusive...
- Tags: News, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Collaborative Signal Reinforcement in Sensor Networks
- Sensor networks can be used for various application areas such as health, military, and home. Research in collaborative methods and wireless communication has enabled the development of sensor networks. This paper presents a collaborative signal reinforcement scheme for sensor networks in which a cluster of mobile, independent and interchangeable nodes...
- Tags: Virginia Tech, Network, Sensor, Reinforcement, Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2007-02-23
- An Analysis of 10-Gigabit Ethernet Protocol Stacks in Multicore Environments
- This paper analyzes the interactions between the protocol stack (TCP/IP or iWARP over 10-Gigabit Ethernet) and its multicore environment. Specially, for host-based protocols such as TCP/IP, one notices that a significant amount of processing is statically assigned to a single core, resulting in an imbalance of load on the different...
- Tags: Virginia Tech, 10-Gigabit Ethernet, Protocol, Multi-core, Analysis, Imbalance, Ethernet, Tcp/Ip, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2007-01-01
- GMLinAir: Enabling Efficient and Power-Conserving Wireless GML Communication and Visualization
- Geography Markup Language GML, a language model designed as an interoperable format, is used to store and express geographical features. With the development of wireless capabilities, more and more applications are designed for users to acquire geographic information over the wireless channel, especially in a geosensor network. However, due to...
- Tags: Virginia Tech, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2006-09-20
- Defragmenting Information Using the Syncables Framework
- Information fragmentation is the problem of having a user's data tied to different formats, distributed across multiple locations, manipulated by different applications, and residing in a generally disconnected manner. This paper takes a closer look at the problem and describes the design of a framework that addresses information fragmentation of...
- Tags: Virginia Tech, Fragmentation, Framework, Information Fragmentation
- White papers 2006-08-06
- CARE: Enhancing Denial-of-Service Resilience in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
- This paper proposes an attack-resilient routing architecture, called Cross-layer Active RE-routing CARE, for Mobile Ad hoc NETworks MANETs. Different from existing solutions, CARE does not focus on a particular type of attack, but instead takes a fundamentally general approach - it achieves resilience against a wide range of routing disruption...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Virginia Tech, Mobile, Network, Attack, Security, Networking
- White papers 2006-07-28
- Tablet PCs required for Virginia Tech engineers
- Tablet PCs required for Virginia Tech engineersAnd to be smarter ...Now, they should really employ some high tech ...Use WiFi to broadcast lecture and classroom and lab notes to tablets.Allow tests to be conducted on the tablets, instead of using paper ...Capture whiteboard diagrams and other instructional information ...Use the...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, PC, Virginia Tech, tablet, tablet PC
- Discussion threads 2006-06-30
- Photos: Fujitsu's LifeBook tablet
- The LifeBook T4210, a Fujitsu T4000-series tablet PC, is required gear for engineering students at Virginia Tech.
- Tags: Notebooks, Tablets, Fujitsu LifeBook, Fujitsu Ltd., Virginia Tech, tablet PC, tablet, PC
- Image galleries 2006-06-30
- Photos: Fujitsu's LifeBook tablet
- The LifeBook T4210, a Fujitsu T4000-series tablet PC, is required gear for engineering students at Virginia Tech.
- Tags: Notebooks, Tablets, Fujitsu LifeBook, Fujitsu Ltd., Virginia Tech, tablet PC, tablet, PC
- Image galleries 2006-06-30
- A Game Theoretic Formulation for Intrusion Detection in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
- Nodes in a mobile ad hoc network need to thwart various attacks and malicious activities. This is especially true for the ad hoc environment where there is a total lack of centralized or third-party authentication and security architectures. This paper presents a game-theoretic model to analyze intrusion detection in mobile...
- Tags: Virginia Tech, Mobile, Network, Node, Games, Intrusion Detection, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Personal Technology, Marketing
- White papers 2005-10-06
- Using Game Theory to Analyze Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
- The application of mathematical analysis to the study of wireless ad hoc networks has met with limited success due to the complexity of mobility and traffic models, the dynamic topology, and the unpredictability of link quality that characterize such networks. The ability to model individual, independent decision makers whose actions...
- Tags: Virginia Tech, Theory, Network, Games, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless, Personal Technology
- White papers 2005-08-29
- Malaysia Transitions Toward a Knowledge-Based Economy
- The emergence of a knowledge-based economy (k-economy) has spawned a "new" notion of workplace literacy, changing the relationship between employers and employees. The traditional covenant where employees expect a stable or lifelong employment will no longer apply. The retention of employees will most probably be based on their skills and...
- Tags: Virginia Tech, Employee, Knowledge, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-05-12
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