Information Technology Newsweekly back issues from June 2009:
Study results from S. Chen et al provide new insights into science.
Jun 02, 2009 ... "A dynamic collaboration, formed by business partners, requires self-contained, secure and reliable storage for sharing data among collaborating participants," investigators in Sydney, Australia report. "As such this paper presents a virtual storage services architecture that ...
New science study findings recently were published by researchers at Pennsylvania State University.
Jun 02, 2009 ... "The ability to predict linkages among data objects is central to many data mining tasks, such as product recommendation and social network analysis. Substantial literature has been devoted to the link prediction problem either as an implicitly embedded problem in specific applications or ...
Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University release new data on medical informatics.
Jun 02, 2009 ... "This paper focuses on the creation of a predictive computer-assisted decision making system for traumatic injury using machine learning algorithms. Trauma experts must make several difficult decisions based on a large number of patient attributes, usually in a short period of time," ...
Findings from T. Ahn et al in information technology reported.
Jun 02, 2009 ... "With proliferation of smart handsets capable of mobile Internet, the severity of malware attacks targeting such handsets is rapidly increasing, thereby requiring effective countermeasure for them," scientists in South Korea report. "However, existing signature-based solutions ...
New geographical information science research from University of Zaragoza discussed.
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to recent research from Zaragoza, Spain, "This work proposes an architectural style, a pattern, for spatial data infrastructures (SDIs). This style provides a tool and a shared vocabulary to help system architects to design these infrastructures, and facilitates the exchange of ...
Research from Inha University in the area of information technology published.(Report)
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to a study from South Korea, "As the multimedia Contents market continues its rapid expansion, the amount of image contents used in mobile phone services, digital libraries. and catalog service is increasing remarkably. In spite of this rapid growth, users experience high levels ...
Researchers from Beijing Jiaotong University report recent findings in information technology.(Report)
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the journal Ieice Transactions on Information and Systems, "Boundary detection is one of the most studied problems in computer vision. It is the foundation of contour grouping, and initially affects the performance of grouping algorithms." ...
AlarmPoint Systems Receives Network Products Guide 2009 Product Innovation Award.
Jun 02, 2009 ... AlarmPoint Systems, provider of the leading Alert Management platform, announced that Network Products Guide, a leading information technology publication, has named AlarmPoint Enterprise a winner of the 2009 Product Innovation Award. This award recognizes and honors vendors from all over ...
Keane Appoints National Accounts Leader in Southeast Region of U.S.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Keane, Inc., a global services firm that specializes in optimizing businesses' information technology (IT) investments, announced that it has appointed Bill Boucher to the position of Vice President of Global Services, leading many of the firm's national accounts. An ...
New information technology study findings have been reported by scientists at Technion.
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to a study from Haifa, Israel, "Consider the case where consecutive blocks of N letters of a semi-infinite individual sequence X over a finite alphabet are being compressed into binary sequences by some one-to-one mapping. No a priori information about X is available at the ...
Studies from Chiba University have provided new data on information technology.
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to recent research from Chiba, Japan, "This paper proposes it scan design for delay fault testability of dual circuits. In normal operation mode, each proposed scan flip flop operates its it master-slave flip flop. In test nude. the proposed scan design performs scan operation ...
Research by C. Hori and colleagues in information technology provides new insights.
Jun 02, 2009 ... "The performance of speech translation systems combining automatic speech recognition (ASR) and machine translation (MT) systems is degraded by redundant and irrelevant information caused by speaker disfluency and recognition errors. This paper proposes a new approach to translating speech ...
Michelle Obama's Only University Commencement Address Streamed Live Via Mediasite.
Jun 02, 2009 ... First Lady Michelle Obama delivered her first commencement address to the founding classmen from the UC system's newest campus on Saturday, and through services by Sonic Foundry, Inc. (NASDAQ:SOFO), the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, the world ...
Research from University of Washington in information technology provides new insights.
Jun 02, 2009 ... "When researchers study technology diffusion in a global and comparative manner, they often find that economic productivity explains differences in the diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs). But when researchers study technology diffusion in a regional, national, ...
MSC Industrial Direct Selects SAP to Improve Data Management.(Company overview)
Jun 02, 2009 ... MSC Industrial Direct Co, Inc., one of the nation's largest providers of industrial supplies and equipment, has selected the SAP NetWeaver(R) Master Data Management component (SAP NetWeaver MDM) to transform how product information is managed throughout its enterprise. More accurate, ...
New information technology study findings have been published by K.A.S. Immink and colleagues.
Jun 02, 2009 ... "The Wijngaarden-Immink (WI) scheme is a combined modulation/ECC coding scheme, where arbitrary user data are translated into a constrained sequence in which predefined positions are reserved for error-correcting codes (ECC) parity," scientists writing in the journal IEEE Transactions on ...
Researchers from Purdue University describe findings in information technology.
Jun 02, 2009 ... "It is proven in this work that it is NP-complete to exhaustively enumerate small error-prone substructures in arbitrary, finite-length low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Two error-prone patterns of interest include stopping sets for binary erasure channels (BECs) and trapping sets for ...
LSI Partners With Terascala to Offer Parallel Storage Appliance for the High-Performance Computing Market.
Jun 02, 2009 ... LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) announced an OEM partnership with Terascala, Inc. to drive increased storage sales in the high-performance computing (HPC) market. Under the terms of the agreement, the LSI(TM) Engenio(R) 7900 HPC storage system will be integrated with the Terascala(TM) DTS 4000 ...
New information technology research from C.W. Yang and colleagues discussed.(Report)
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the journal Ieice Transactions on Information and Systems, "In this paper, we propose an effective Web cache admission control algorithm." "By selectively admitting objects into the cache, the proposed algorithm can significantly reduce ...
Pinpoint Associates Announces Re-Seller Agreement with Gresham Enterprise Storage.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Outsourced sales and marketing company Pinpoint Associates has signed a deal with U.S based data protection solution company, Gresham Enterprise Storage, to re-sell their Backup Virtualization solutions - Clareti Storage Director and Clareti Enterprise DistribuTape - throughout the ...
Learning Tree Expands ITIL Curriculum with Two New v3 Courses.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Learning Tree International (NASDAQ NGM:LTRE) has announced that it will add two new titles to its Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) curriculum. Both courses focus on preparing individuals to take the associated certification exam for the version 3 (v3) ITIL® ...
New medical informatics findings from University of Ruhuna published.
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, "The internet is a relatively new medium of disseminating health information. Studies on Internet usage for health information are mainly done in developed countries and very few studies have ...
Children's Hospital Boston Deploys AutoVirt Solution to Increase Speed and Efficiency of Windows Data Replication.
Jun 02, 2009 ... AutoVirt(TM), Inc., the leading provider of Windows file server virtualization solutions, announced that Children's Hospital Boston, an internationally renowned center for medical research and treatment, has deployed its AutoClone(TM) software, in order to increase the speed and efficiency ...
Studies from F. Brannstrom et al in the area of information technology described.
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to a study from the United States, "We propose a systematic design framework for optimal, low-complexity punctured multiple parallel concatenated codes (MPCCs), based on minimizing the convergence threshold using extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) charts. As the convergence ...
Studies from Seoul National University in the area of information technology described.
Jun 02, 2009 ... "A 40-in. tiled projection integral imaging system has been implemented, adopting a polarization-multiplexing technique. The system is composed of two full-high-definition (HD) projectors, a time-varying polarizer, a polarization preserving screen, polarization films, a lens array, and a ...
Study findings from Beijing Jiaotong University provide new insights into information technology.(Report)
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to a study from Beijing, People's Republic of China, "Salient Region Extraction provides an alternative methodology to image description in many applications such as adaptive content delivery and image retrieval. In this paper, we propose a robust approach to extracting the ...
New information technology study results reported from Osaka University.(Report)
Jun 02, 2009 ... "A desired property of large distributed systems is self adaptability against the faults that occur more frequently as the size of the distributed system grows. Self-stabilizing protocols provide autonomous recovery from finite number of transient faults," investigators in Toyonaka, Japan ...
Research results from University of Tsukuba update knowledge of information technology.(Report)
Jun 02, 2009 ... "Finding an appropriate data transformation between two schemas has been an important problem. In this paper, assuming that an update script between original and updated DTDs is available, we consider inferring a transformation algorithm from the original DTD and the update script such ...
Isobar Agencies Molecular and de-construct Join Forces and Win Two Webby Awards for Work with Iconic Brand adidas[TM].
Jun 02, 2009 ... Isobar's interactive agency Molecular and digital creative firm de-construct received top honors in the 13th Annual Webby Awards for their collaboration on the adidas web site, winning both the Webby award as well as the People's Voice Award for Best Home/Welcome page of the year. ...
Research conducted at H. Honma and co-authors has provided new information about information technology.
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to a study from Kushiro, Japan, "The spanning tree problem is to find a tree that connects all the vertices of G. This problem has many applications, such as electric power systems, computer network design and circuit analysis. Klein and Stein demonstrated that a spanning tree ...
Clearpace Offers Instant Application Retirement With Cloud-Based RainStor Data Archive Service.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Clearpace, the data archive store specialist, http://www.clearpace.com is today launching a cloud-based archive service for structured data - RainStor. RainStor http://www.rainstor.com allows users to instantly retire legacy applications and archive structured data to ...
Study results from Providence University in the area of information technology published.
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to a study from Taichung, Taiwan, "Let u and v be any two distinct vertices of an undirected graph G, which is k-connected." "For 1<= w<= k, a w-container C(u, v) of a k-connected graph G is a set of w-disjoint paths joining u and v. A w-container C(u, v) of G is a ...
Data from Beijing Jiaotong University provide new insights into information technology.
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to a study from Beijing, People's Republic of China, "A novel bimodal method for face recognition under low-level lighting conditions is proposed. It fuses an enhanced gray level image and an illumination-invariant geometric image at the feature-level." "To further ...
Research from McGill University reveals new findings on information technology.
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to a study from Montreal, Canada, "A theorem of Davies shows that for symmetric quantum states there exists a symmetric positive operator-valued measure (POVM) that has a simple structure and that maximizes the mutual information." "To apply this theorem, the ...
Eclipsys' PeakPractice Solution Receives '08 CCHIT Certification.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Eclipsys Corporation® (NASDAQ:ECLP), The Outcomes Company®, announced that the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®) has classified Eclipsys' PeakPractice solution (version 1093) a conditionally CCHIT Certified® 08 Ambulatory ...
Reports on information technology findings from Thammasat University provide new insights.
Jun 02, 2009 ... "This paper considers the problem of optimal server allocation in a time-slotted system with N statistically symmetric queues and K servers when the arrivals and channels are stochastic and time-varying," scientists in Pathum Thani, Thailand report. "In this setting, we identify ...
Study results from Osaka University in the area of information technology published.
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to recent research from Ibaraki, Japan, "Interpretations by physicians of capsule endoscopy image sequences captured over periods of 7-8 hours usually require 45 to 120 minutes of extreme concentration. This paper describes a novel method to reduce diagnostic time by ...
Edifecs and Axway Announce a Partnership Targeting Innovative HIPAA 5010 Migration Solutions.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Edifecs, the foremost leader in healthcare electronic transactions simplification and systems interoperability, and Axway, a global provider of multi-enterprise solutions and infrastructure, announced the creation of a joint partnership to provide integrated migration solutions for ...
Scientists at Tohoku University report research in information technology.(Report)
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to recent research from Sendai, Japan, "A Feedback Error Learning (FEL) scheme was found to be applicable to joint angle control by Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) in our previous study. However, the FEL-FES controller had a problem in learning of the inverse dynamics ...
Two Verizon Business Customers Named Laureates in 2009 Computerworld Honors Program.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Two Verizon Business customers - the Brooklyn Health Information Exchange and the University of Pittsburgh - have been honored as Laureates by IDG's 2009 Computerworld Honors Program. Each year, the Computerworld Honors Program Chairmen's Committee, a group of 100 leaders of the ...
Reports from University of California advance knowledge in information technology.
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, "For a wide class of multiuser systems, a subset of capacity region which includes the corner points and the sum-capacity facet has a special structure known as polymatroid. Multiple-access ...
Dyadem Wins Network Products Guide Reader Trust Award for Best in Regulatory Compliance.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Dyadem announced that Network Products Guide, industry's leading publication on information technologies and solutions, has named Stature a winner of the 2009 Best Products and Services Award. This respected annual award honors products and services that represent the rapidly changing ...
Findings in information technology reported from University of California.
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to a study from the United States, "The problem of consistently estimating the sparsity pattern of a vector beta* is an element of R-p based on observations contaminated by noise arises in various contexts, including signal denoising, sparse approximation, compressed sensing, and ...
New findings in information technology described by D.S. Na and co-researchers.
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to a study from Seoul, South Korea, "Break prediction is an important step in text-to-speech systems as break indices (BIs) have a great influence on how to correctly represent prosodic phrase boundaries. However, an accurate prediction is difficult since BIs are often chosen ...
Research on information technology discussed by scientists at University of Arizona.(Report)
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to a study from the United States, "In this paper, the error-correction capability of column-weight-three low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes when decoded using the Gallager A algorithm is investigated." "It is proved that a necessary condition for a code to correct ...
Research reports from University of Michigan provide new insights into science.
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to a study from the United States, "Contrary to widespread assumption, dynamic RAM (DRAM), the main memory in most modern computers, retains its contents for several seconds after power is lost, even at room temperature and even if removed from a mother-board. Although DRAM ...
New findings reported from H. Ozaki and co-authors describe advances in information technology.(Report)
Jun 02, 2009 ... "In this paper we investigate the reliability of general type shared protection systems i.e. M for N (M:N) that can typically be applied to various telecommunication network devices," scientists in Abiko, Japan report. "We focus Oil the reliability that is perceived by all end ...
New PGP Endpoint Application Control Blocks Malware and Unauthorized Software.(Company overview)
Jun 02, 2009 ... To help organizations combat the rising threats of malware and unauthorized software entering corporate networks, PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data protection, announced PGP(R) Endpoint Application Control, the latest addition to the PGP(R) Endpoint family of solutions ....
Research from V.V. Stankovic and co-researchers in the area of information technology published.
Jun 02, 2009 ... "In the arsenal of resources for computer memory system performance improvement, predictors have gained an increasing role in the past years. They can suppress the latencies when accessing cache or main memory," scientists in Serbia report. "In paper [1] it is shown how temporal ...
Study results from G. Como et al provide new insights into information technology.
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to a study from the United States, "The capacity of finite Abelian group codes over symmetric memoryless channels is determined." "For certain important examples, such as m-PSK constellations over additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels, within a prime power, it ...
Study findings from University of Turku provide new insights into geographical information science.(Report)
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to recent research from Turku, Finland, "Distances from points to closest shorelines in a given direction are used, for example, in some models for estimating wave exposure. Such distances, also called fetch lengths, can be determined using standard geographic information ...
Findings from Simon Fraser University in information technology reported.
Jun 02, 2009 ... "Entropy rate is a real valued functional on the space of discrete random sources for which it exists. However, it lacks existence proofs and/or closed formulas even for classes of random sources which have intuitive parameterizations," scientists in Burnaby, Canada report. "A ...
ParaScale / Vembu Webinar Outlines How to Setup Online Backup Services to a Storage Cloud.
Jun 02, 2009 ... ParaScale, Inc., a startup company developing cloud storage solutions, announced that it will co-host a complimentary webinar with Vembu Technologies entitled, "Leveraging Cloud Storage for Online Backup Services." This live presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 12PM ET / ...
Data on information technology described by G. Como et al.
Jun 02, 2009 ... "The error exponent of Markov channels with feedback is studied in the variable-length block-coding setting. Burnashev's classic result is extended to finite-state ergodic Markov channels," scientists in the United States report. "For these channels, a single-letter ...
Investigators at University of Notre Dame zero in on information technology.
Jun 02, 2009 ... "This paper studies the performance of bit interleaved coded modulation (BICM) with a single decision feedback," investigators in the United States report. "The separation of demodulation and decoding in BICM inevitably reduces the channel's capacity. Altering the conventional ...
Research conducted by H. Sakamoto and co-researchers has updated our knowledge about information technology.
Jun 02, 2009 ... "A space-efficient approximation algorithm for the grammar-based compression problem, which requests for a given string to find a smallest context-free grammar deriving the string, is presented," scientists writing in the journal Ieice Transactions on Information and Systems report. ...
Tech Data Opens Apple Lab.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ:TECD) today opened the 450-square-foot Apple Lab, the latest addition to the company's 6,000-square-foot technology solutions center. Resellers use the Tech Data solutions center to demonstrate a broad array of IT solutions in a hands-on environment for their ...
Investigators at Osaka University have published new data on information technology.
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to recent research from Toyonaka, Japan, "A self-stabilizing protocol is a protocol that achieves its intended behavior regardless of the initial configuration (i.e., global state). Thus, a self-stabilizing protocol is adaptive to any number and any type of topology changes of ...
EMC Extends Leadership With New Cloud Storage Service and Information Management Offerings.
Jun 02, 2009 ... EMC World -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today further expands its cloud infrastructure portfolio by announcing new information storage services and industry-leading information management offerings providing customers of all sizes ...
Study results from Simon Fraser University in the area of information technology published.
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, "An algebraic criterion for the ergodicity of discrete random sources is presented." "For finite-dimensional sources, which contain hidden Markov sources as a subclass, the criterion ...
nuBridges Receives Network Products Guide 2009 Product Innovation Award.
Jun 02, 2009 ... nuBridges, the secure eBusiness authority, announced that Network Products Guide, the industry's leading publication on information technologies and solutions, has named nuBridges Protect as a winner of the 2009 Product Innovation Award. This annually venerated award recognizes and ...
Scientists at University of Notre Dame release new data on information technology.
Jun 02, 2009 ... "This paper proposes a new nonlinear equalization approach for the transmission of high-density constellations over nonlinear ISI channels. Multilevel coding is performed at the transmitter, and multistage equalization and decoding at the receiver," scientists in the United States report. ...
General Dynamics Awarded Second Order to Integrate U.S. Army 'Prophet Enhanced' System into Military Vehicles.
Jun 02, 2009 ... A team led by General Dynamics C4 Systems has received a new, $3 million delivery order from the U.S. Army to integrate the Prophet Enhanced tactical signals intelligence system into Medium Mine Protected Vehicles (MMPV). The order is in support of a Department of Defense requirement that ...
Italy's National Mapping Agency Purchases Digital Elevation Mapping Data from Intermap Technologies.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Intermap Technologies announced it has delivered 100,000 square kilometers of 3D digital elevation data to the Istituto Geografico Militare Italiano (IGMI), a national institution delegated to provide the Italian government with digital cartography and integrated feature data. ...
Vanderbilt University reports research in medical informatics.
Jun 02, 2009 ... According to a study from the United States, "Adoption of EHRs by U. S. ambulatory practices has been slow despite the perceived benefits of their use. Most evaluations of EHR implementations in the literature apply to large practice settings." "While there are similarities ...