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Implementation Experiments of the TCP Proxy Mechanism
White Papers This paper investigates the performance of the TCP proxy mechanism through experiments using the actual public network. Interest in the TCP overlay network, which controls the data transmission quality at the transport layer, has grown as the user...
[August 25, 2009, 10:14]
Lab on a chip promises to speed experiments
News Microchip technology can now enable chemists to perform over 1,000 experiments at once, according to researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles. A large number of reagents were automatically mixed and sampled on the chip, while...
[August 6, 2009, 16:07]
Accurately Measuring Denial of Service in Simulation and Testbed Experiments
White Papers Researchers in the Denial of Service (DoS) field lack accurate, quantitative and versatile metrics to measure service denial in simulation and testbed experiments. Without such metrics, it is impossible to measure severity of various attacks...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
Face login experiments
Blog Comment There's a big difference between "couldn't login using a photo" and "failed to login using a photo". One implies that the testing methods were rigorous and extensive and the other implies that it was attempted once and didn't work.
[April 6, 2009, 9:06]
Face login experiments
Blog Comment Adrian, that's just plain creepy. Unfortunately, it is also becoming a valid concern. I know for a fact that some of the current video chat programs can be set up to auto-answer incoming calls, and activate the camera.
[March 25, 2009, 9:36]
Face login experiments
Blog Comment Excellent blog Sandra - thanks for a great read! I've recently started using my built-in camera for video conferencing via Gmail, it works amazingly well - and took about one minute to install from Gmail itself.
[March 24, 2009, 7:46]
Face login experiments
Blog Comment The fact that you couldn't fool the system with a photograph of your self clinches the deal for me. That would be the first point of deception for many a scoundril out there. It made me wonder if the regognition system has built in criteria that...
[March 24, 2009, 7:44]
Face login experiments
Blog Comment Excellent, fascinating information, thanks for posting. I have been working in security and access control systems for 20+ years, and during that time I've watched biometric identification systems slowly improve to the point that some of them are...
[March 23, 2009, 13:09]
Face login experiments
Blog Quite a lot of notebooks have integrated cameras these days. The cameras are good for video conferencing and taking photos, and if accompanied by appropriate software, also for face login. There is a face login system on the Toshiba Tecra R10 I’ve...
[March 23, 2009, 13:10]
HP experiments with notebook insurance
News Beyond routine product warranties, PC giant Hewlett-Packard has launched an insurance plan in Singapore to protect notebook owners against incidents such as theft and accidental screen damage. Termed HP Wellness, the initiative is the result of a...
[December 31, 2003, 8:25]
Experiments in Streaming Content in Java ME
White Papers Mobile Media API (MMAPI) is a format- and protocol-agnostic API, which means that the API doesn't dictate mandatory support from device manufacturers for any particular format or protocol. One of the protocols that is widely requested by...
[December 9, 2006, 0:00]
HP unveils developing-world experiments
News What do subcompact cars and PCs have in common? Forty million people in India. At least that's HP's perspective. Company executives say the 40 million consumers in India who can afford a subcompact car will be the future buyers of new HP...
[April 7, 2006, 9:30]
FAST TCP: From Theory to Experiments
White Papers The congestion control algorithm in the current TCP has performed remarkably well and is generally believed to have prevented severe congestion as the Internet scaled up by six orders of magnitude in size, speed, load, and connectivity in the last...
[October 31, 2007, 0:00]
Music store experiments with floating prices
News A little known online music store is experimenting with a new pricing system in which most songs start out costing 10 cents, and their prices fluctuate from there based on customer demand. MusicRebellion, a site that has gone largely unnoticed in...
[January 9, 2004, 7:35]
A Service-Oriented Data Integration and Analysis Environment for in Silico Experiments and Bioinformatics Research
White Papers This paper presents present a practical experiment of building a service-oriented system upon current web services technologies and bioinformatics middleware. The system allows scientists to extract data from heterogeneous data sources and generate...
[March 10, 2007, 0:00]
Experiments on Element and Document Statistics for XML Retrieval
White Papers This paper presents an information retrieval model on XML documents based on tree matching. Queries and documents are represented by extended trees. An extended tree is built starting from the original tree, with additional weighted virtual links...
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Microsoft experiments with open source
News Microsoft published the code for one of its products on an open-source software development Web site late on Monday, departing from its hard-line stance against making the underlying components of its technology available to the general public.
[April 6, 2004, 17:10]
LabAssistant
Downloads LabAssistant is a scientific program, developed to help you organize your (scientific) experiments instead of using multiple timers, stickies, and a labjournal. Key features of LabAssistant are: Create and manage incubation step for multiple...
[August 11, 2003, 8:00]
4G gets test rollout in Japan and China
News Japan and China plan joint experiments on a new generation Internet-capable mobile phone for high-speed data transmissions that will work in both countries at far higher speeds than current 3G phones.
[November 26, 2003, 8:35]
The Design and Analysis of D-optimal Split-Plot Designs Using JMP Version 6 Software
White Papers The results of experiments are not known in advance. Usually, statistical experiments are conducted when researchers can manipulate the conditions of the experiment and control the factors that are relevant to the research objectives.
[May 31, 2008, 1:01]
