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- Nanospheres moving faster than light?
- In recent years, I don't think I've spent a month without a report about a new way to exceed the speed of light. Yesterday, University of Pennsylvania researchers announced a theoretical way to increase the speed of pulses of light which could bring optical computing closer to reality. The scientists...
- Tags: Team, Bandwidth, Researcher, University Of Pennsylvania, Theory, Nanoparticle, Particle, Penn, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- AntiECN Marking: A Marking Scheme for High Bandwidth Delay Connections
- This paper describes a simple scheme that uses feedback from underutilized high capacity links to allow a TCP connection to aggressively increase its sending rate. The feedback is in the form of a single bit in the packet header and is given per packet. The scheme uses aggregate information to...
- Tags: Bandwidth, University Of Pennsylvania, TCP, Scheme, Tcp/Ip, Routers & Switches, Networking, Network Technology
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Actin Network Architecture and Elasticity in Lamellipodia of Melanoma Cells
- Cell migration is an essential element in the immune response on the one hand and in cancer metastasis on the other hand. The architecture of the actin network in lamellipodia determines the elasticity of the leading edge and contributes to the regulation of migration. The paper has implemented a new...
- Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Network, Elasticity, Migration, Cell Migration, Networking
- White papers 2007-05-19
- Out of Stock?: It Might Be Your Employee Payroll - Not Your Supply Chain - That's to Blame
- Customers get lower satisfaction from their shopping experience when stores have too few employees and, more importantly, when stores lack employees who are knowledgeable about what's in the store. After analyzing the results of the study, the researchers suggest that a "Modest reallocation of the payroll budget among stores" in...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Employee, Researcher, University Of Pennsylvania, Payroll, Operational Accounting, Finance
- White papers 2007-04-04
- Distributed Uplink Scheduling in CDMA Networks
- As mobile devices grow more powerful and diverse in the applications they run, it becomes increasingly desirable to give them some independence in scheduling their transmissions. The latest release of the CDMA2000 1xEV-DO system incorporates a number of mechanisms that afford mobile devices some flexibility in making uplink transmission decisions....
- Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, CDMA, Mobile Device, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2006-12-13
- Retail Store Execution: An Empirical Study
- This paper describes a methodology by which a retailer can identify action steps that are likely to increase sales and customer satisfaction and demonstrate the methodology using proprietary data from a large retailer with over 500 stores. The paper uses monthly store-level data on a number of operational variables including...
- Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Retail Company, Customer Satisfaction, Retail, Sales Strategy, Product Marketing, Sales, Marketing
- White papers 2006-12-01
- Watching the brain under stress
- According to this news release from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, researchers have for the first time "visualized the effects of everyday psychological stress in a healthy human brain." They used the fMRI functional magnetic resonance imaging technique and found that there is a strong link between psychological...
- Tags: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- Blog posts 2005-11-22
- The University of Pennsylvania Health System: Projecting a Pioneering Tradition Into an Ambitious Future
- The University of Pennsylvania Health System is a leader in medicine for more than 230 years -supporting the healthcare needs of Philadelphia and five counties in the surrounding area. The University needed to replace a network that was already being stretched for bandwidth with one capable of supporting the bandwidth-intensive...
- Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Health Care, University Of Pennsylvania Health System, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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- University of Pennsylvania Speeds Order Transmission With RightFax and Oracle
- Founded in 1740, the University of Pennsylvania is America's first university and one of the country's most prestigious institutions of higher education. With a large student body to support and a reputation for administrative excellence, the University of Pennsylvania's Purchasing Services department realized the need to implement an automated document...
- Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Oracle Corp., Captaris Inc., Fax, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
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- DHARMA: Distributed Home Agent for Robust Mobile Access
- Mobile wireless devices have intermittent connectivity, sometimes intentional. This is a problem for conventional Mobile IP, beyond its well-known routing inefficiencies and deployment issues. DHARMA selects a location-optimized instance from a distributed set of home agents to minimize routing overheads; set management and optimization are done using the PlanetLab overlay...
- Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Microsoft Access, Mobile, Agent, Mobile IP, DHARMA, Advertising & Promotion, Real Estate, Networking, Wireless, Marketing, Business Operations
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- Forming Connected Topologies in Bluetooth Adhoc Networks
- This paper explores the problem of forming connected topologies, in adhoc networks built on the Bluetooth technology. Providing connectivity, when feasible, is the most basic requirement for any system aimed at allowing devices to communicate with each other. The paper illustrates that this seemingly innocuous goal gives rise to many...
- Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Topology, Connected Corp., Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless
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- Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide: The Online Privacy Issue
- Debating online privacy isn't merely a philosophical exercise. Companies collect reams of information about visitors to their websites and about their customers' web-surfing ways. A person may be able to hide his or her visits to offbeat, or off-color, websites from his or her spouse, but can't hide them from...
- Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Online Privacy, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Government, Internet
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- University of Pennsylvania Streamlines Procurement, Saving $7.8 Million
- The University of Pennsylvania Penn is a highly-regarded institution of higher learning - from its undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools to its interdisciplinary research and scholarship programs. The university wanted to enable mass supplier content by extending the breadth of the existing Web-based supplier exchange and enhance the value of...
- Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Oracle Corp., Supplier, Procurement, Channel Management, Purchasing & Procurement, Marketing, Business Operations
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- 'Semantic Web for Business' ultimately misses the mark
- Weighing in at 416 text-packed pages, Semantic Web for Business could have been the latest attempt to bridge the divide between the university hotbeds of Semantic Web research and a business community ripe for persuading of semantic technologies' multifarious benefits. In that, though, the volume proves ultimately unsatisfying and a...
- Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Study: Cell phones distract drivers more than passengers do
- According to a new study, it's more distracting to have Paris Hilton's Sidekick in the car than it is to have Paris herself. Sorry, Paris. Cell phones distract car drivers more than talkative passengers -- and hands-free devices don't make for safer driving, according...
- Tags: Car, Phone, Driver, Cell Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Supercomputers help design better golf balls
- Researchers are using supercomputers to create new balls that will improve the game of avid golfers by flying farther. They've used the supercomputers at Arizona State University to simulate the physics of golf balls and to model how air flows around a ball in flight and to study how this...
- Tags: Supercomputer, Flow, Arizona State University, Clinton Smith, Direct Numerical Simulation, Results, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Aclara application provides consumers with hourly visibility into electricity usage
- Want to find out how that cold snap last night is going to affect your monthly utility bill? Or whether or not you should do your wash in the morning, afternoon or night? If you're one of the 1.4 million customers in Pennsylvania served by PPL Electric Utilities, you can...
- Tags: Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Internet, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- A fully customizable home robot
- Imagine a completely customizable robot with selectable software options. Buy one component, and it will take care of your lawn. Buy another one and it will clean your toilets. With a third one, it will pick up UPS or FedEx deliveries on your porch. If you are taking some vacation,...
- Tags: Lawn, AgBot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Twitter: is there any point?
- The last few days have been an eye-opener for me, because I've discovered there may in fact be little point in having Twitter. I see Twitter as a pain in the arse, something you have to go out of your way for and tell the world something you really shouldn't...
- Tags: Twitter, Channel Management, Marketing, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- How our brain sees natural scenes
- Carnegie Mellon University CMU researchers have developed a new computational model explaining how the brain processes images to interpret natural scenes. According to ACM TechNews, the team 'used an algorithm to analyze the patterns that compose natural scenes and determine which patterns are most likely associated with each other.'...
- Tags: Vision, Scene, Computer, Productivity, Strategy, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
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