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Resilient Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks

As wireless sensor networks become widely used, the need to provide fault tolerant, user-friendly middleware for detecting sensed events increases. Their contribution is the motivation, design, implementation and evaluation of ResTAG, which provides fault-tolerant aggregate queries in the popular, user-friendly TinyDB middleware. If a sensor becomes mis-calibrated or physically compromised,...

Tags: Fault-tolerance, Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Western Washington University, Wireless

White papers 2009-01-01

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Do video games really make you fat, depressed?

The headline du jour is that the average gamer is 35, depressed and fat. The reality may be a bit more nuanced. MSNBC runs with a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emory University and Andrews University. That trio analyzed survey data from...

Tags: Health Care, Video Game, Video, BMI, Games, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Denial as a political position

The Deniers are convening right now in New York. These are not those who deny a Supreme Being. Nor deny the being of the Supremes. It's not even those athletes who deny having used steroids--no convention hall would be big enough, right? These are they who...

Tags: Conference, Global Warming, Deniers, Heartland Institute, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-09

Nanotechnology to protect from earthquakes

Two separate efforts using high-tech to protect people from earthquakes have been recently revealed. At the University of Leeds, UK, researchers will use nanotechnology and RFID tags to build a self-healing house in Greece. The house walls will contain nanoparticles that turn into a liquid when squeezed under pressure, flow...

Tags: Wireless &, Telecom, Science &, Nature, Nanotechnology, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2007-04-15

Vista Hands On

Vista Hands OnAlready ran into thisI already had to deal with this Vista defect.My ACER notebook came with XP pre-installed on a FAT32 partition.I did the convert as I don't do anything important in Windows but this situation can cause huge problems.What if an average user runs into this and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, FAT32, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2007-02-14

Students are online. Should elections be too?

Would politicians take college students a bit more seriously if they voted? Some lawmakers in Washington state say that college students are so plugged into the Internet that voting should be done online, allowing everyone to have a better showing at the polls, reports Northwest Public Radio....

Tags: Education Technology, Web

Blog posts 2007-02-05

Open-source firm SourceLabs partners with Oracle

Open-source firm SourceLabs partners with OracleYes there is work for Java Coders in SeattleContrary to the myth, Seattle and Washington State do turn out coders oriented to the "other than Microsoft way" of doing business. While the programs at Western Washington University and the state Department of Information Systems, may...

Tags: SourceLabs partners, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2006-02-09

Top advertisers for education sites: Apollo Group, Classes USA, DeVry

Nielsen//NetRatings ranked top 20 advertisers buying ads on education sites. The first week of April was covered. Top 20 advertisers for education sites Company Impressions, 000 % of all impressions Apollo Group 357,081 ...

Tags: education site, advertiser

Blog posts 2005-06-02

H-1B visa limit reached

H-1B visa limit reachedIf a company needs a H1BIf a company says they need a H1B....Get them to send their job spec to Immigration, Immigration can send it round the US job agencies and see if they can fill it with US staff.If they can fill it, then the company...

Tags: Group Inc., H1B, H-1B visa, H-1B

Discussion threads 2004-02-18