Sarbanes-Oxley in Higher Education: Bringing Corporate America's "Best Practices" to Academia
White Papers This paper will explore the ways in which its "spirit" is consistent with the aspirations of academia, and suggest ways that colleges and universities - public as well as private - can implement the Act's "best practices" while minimizing the new...
[March 31, 2005, 3:00]
An Industry-Academia Team-Teaching Case Study for Software Engineering Capstone Courses
White Papers Exposing software engineering students to newest industry practices and latest research and theories allows them to acquire and maintain the technical skills necessary to continually adjust to the rapid changes that occur in technology.
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
Weaving grid computing into Web services
News Two high-profile movements to harness the power of the global network of computers will start pooling their resources next week as academia's "grid" computing initiative meets the Web services trend that's sweeping business computing.
[February 18, 2002, 12:21]
MoD marches tech plans forward
News The MoD claims the DTP will allow industry and academia to better direct investment in defence science and technology, and will set out a research programme by presenting technological roadmaps of R&D objectives.
[November 16, 2007, 10:07]
Back in the world of infinite free energy...
Blog Comment The recent treatment of Sean at UCD by academia is typical of the contempt being shown by science in general. It is no wonder the world is in the current state it's in If this is academia's response to new physics problems.
[May 10, 2007, 8:22]
IT teachers are "out of touch" - Report
News Clive Parminter, UK VP of Information Builders told journalists that the current lack of skilled programmers is "critical" and likely to get much worse "unless businesses and academia start communicating with one another effectively".
[September 21, 1998, 16:47]
A Year Ago: IT teachers are 'out of touch' - Report
News Clive Parminter, UK VP of Information Builders told journalists that the current lack of skilled programmers is "critical" and likely to get much worse "unless businesses and academia start communicating with one another effectively".
[September 21, 1999, 7:00]
Global group to provide cyberattack early warnings
News As part of this effort, leading security figures from industry and academia will establish an '"early-warning system" similar to the US "Manhattan Project", announced by US Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff in April.
[May 21, 2008, 13:35]
Academics scrutinise open-source culture
News And academia's work on open source is more than academic. Are the processes the same that are taught in engineering classes, the guidelines that we teach in academia? Open-source developers have long done their work in the public eye.
[January 6, 2004, 11:05]
Grid project hunts for bird flu cure
News With the help of the high-speed computing and huge data managing capabilities of the Grid, possible drug components can be screened and studied very rapidly by the available computer modeling applications," Ying-Ta Wu, biologist at the Genomics...
[May 5, 2006, 8:55]
Oracle Database 11g: Oracle Streams Performance
White Papers Database replication is a critical technology employed by a wide spectrum of users in industry, government, and academia to keep internal and customer facing applications highly available and reliable.
[January 9, 2008, 0:01]
Europe catches up on e-learning
News The group, which was created out of the May 2001 eLearning Summit, will work with the European Commission, national governments -- who recently established e-learning as a priority in forthcoming plans for e-Europe 2005 -- and academia to...
[April 25, 2002, 17:40]
Europe launches £2bn nanotech push
News JTIs are essentially partnerships between national governments, the EU, industry and academia, set up in order to co-ordinate ideas and project funding. The European Commission has officially launched a €3bn (£2.3bn) public-private partnership...
[February 26, 2008, 12:00]
Experiences With Place Lab: An Open Source Toolkit for Location-Aware Computing
White Papers Location-Based Computing (LBC) is becoming increasingly important in both industry and academia. A key challenge is the pervasive deployment of LBC technologies; to be effective they must run on a wide variety of client platforms, including laptops...
[May 23, 2007, 1:00]
TechNet Webcast: High-Performance Computing With Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (Level 200)
White Papers High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Beowulf-style clusters are evolving from their roots in academia and government computing into new areas of computing such as genomics and finance. As these systems become easier to program and manage, a broader...
[December 31, 2008, 0:00]
Web Access Management: The Business Imperatives
White Papers The Internet's sweep through the world of business, government and non-profits/academia has been dramatic, but it's far from over. As the number of unique users who need access and applications that need to be developed and maintained increase, IT...
[March 24, 2009, 0:20]
Central Michigan University Research Corporation Bringing Big Wins to Major Companies With SAS
White Papers Established in 2002, Central Michigan University Research Corporation (CMU-RC) is a not-for-profit applied research organization that promotes and facilitates applied research projects between academia and business organizations.
[July 7, 2006, 0:00]
Open source politics are 'American as apple pie'
Talkback For centuries, open source methodologies and politics have prevailed in academia, from the times of the library of Alexandria to the scientific golden age of the Middle East and onwards. The statement that "open source is a fundamentally American...
[June 2, 2006, 20:16]
HPC Distributed Storage Cluster - IBRIX Architecture and Installation
White Papers As cluster computing has become a critical utility for both the commercial enterprise and academia, maximizing the storage subsystem performance has become a fundamental requirement. This paper provides guidance for a customer that is considering...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
L0phtCrack
Downloads Security experts from industry, government, and academia agree that weak passwords represent one of the ten most critical internet security threats, and are receiving more attention as a source of vulnerability, both on client desktop computers...
[October 12, 2009, 4:27]



