Too Cool! Shrinking Portable Devices
News Novel Concepts has registered the patents for a passive cooling technology called IsoSkin. It essentially spreads heat and helps dissipate it," said Novel Concepts president Dan Thomas. Novel Concepts' patents are for dissipating the heat across a...
[January 18, 2001, 12:31]
Towards Distributed Service Discovery In Pervasive Computing Environments
White Papers The protocol is based on the concepts of peer-to-peer caching of service advertisements and group-based intelligent forwarding of service requests. The paper proposes a novel distributed service discovery protocol for pervasive environments.
[November 10, 2005, 0:00]
Digital Discovery In The Criminal Context
White Papers As one district court judge aptly noted: "Judges and legislators faced with adapting existing legal standards to the novel environment of cyberspace struggle with terms and concepts…[and] not surprisingly, much of the legal analysis of Internet...
[March 23, 2004, 23:04]
MAC-PHY Enhancement For 802.11b WLAN Systems Via Cross-Layering
White Papers This paper analyses the performance of a novel MAC-PHY scheme for wireless local area networks (WLAN) that makes use of distributed queues and cross-layer concepts to improve radio channel utilisation.
[October 6, 2005, 3:00]
Modeling Organizational Architectural Styles In UML: The Tropos Case
White Papers Today's software operates in a dynamic, organizational context and hence, it needs flexible architectures based in social and intentional concepts to enable software to evolve consistently with its operational environment.
[January 28, 2005, 2:00]
Re-Working By The Linux Kernel Developers
White Papers The paper examines the practices of reworking within this development effort using some concepts gleaned from activity theory, a meta-theoretical model that particularly focuses on the simultaneously material and conceptual aspects of artifacts.
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
Data Integration For Capital Projects Via Community-Specific Conceptual Representations
White Papers This paper offers a theoretic discussion on the relevant theories and concepts. Representing a departure from existing methods, this paper suggests exploring a novel method, the community-specific conceptual representation, based on the Markov...
[July 16, 2008, 1:20]
DMTL: A Generic Data Mining Template Library
White Papers This paper introduces DMTL, a generic pattern mining library which fuses theoretical concepts from formal concept analysis and generic programming. Researchers have developed numerous novel algorithms to extract these patterns.
[September 19, 2008, 0:00]
Proposal Of Adaptive Downlink Modulation Using OFDM And MC-CDMA For Future Mobile Communications System
White Papers To enhance system capacity, novel technologies or new concepts for improving bandwidth efficiency are indispensable. To meet the strong demand for broadband multimedia services by both nomadic and mobile users, it is important to increase the bit...
[October 21, 2004, 3:00]
Intel Ships Dual-core Presler
News Although chip designs and novel transistor concepts often gain headlines, semiconductor producers live and die by manufacturing and much of Intel's success can be attributed to relentless advances in production.
[October 28, 2005, 8:30]
Intel To Serve Up Metal Chips
News Now, semiconductor designers are being asked to incorporate two or more novel concepts every two years. Moore's Law is alive and well, but Intel is changing its basic semiconductor recipes to make sure it stays that way.
[November 5, 2003, 7:50]
Grid Computing Hooks Up To Open Standards
News As you may surmise, the development of a global system of distributed computing is expected to take a fair amount of time, and involves many novel concepts. A hefty consortium of American academics, government agencies and IBM, Microsoft and Cisco...
[March 19, 2002, 16:18]
Google Blogger 'was Fired'
News Rather, he said, they simply extend legal concepts and issues that have been on the table since computers and the Internet first entered the workplace. Christopher Cobey, senior counsel at Littler Mendelson in San Jose, California, said that...
[February 14, 2005, 9:05]
Sun Chip To Mix Old And New
News Sun Microsystems will come out with a new line of microprocessors for dense servers next year that will wed cutting-edge design concepts to a chip from the 1990s. Escalating energy consumption, combined with the difficulty and expense of following...
[August 18, 2003, 10:10]
AMD Unveils Triple-gate Transistor
News Among the concepts being debated are replacing the traditional silicon gate, which regulates the flow of electricity, with metallic oxides; adding insulating layers to wafers; and physically straining the silicon lattice to allow electrons to move...
[September 19, 2003, 11:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog An hour and a half later, and I stagger bleary-eyed out onto the pavement having tried very hard not to drown under a torrent of concepts. Or should I just write a SF novel about it? The Internet went down, say friends, on Sunday.
[November 14, 1998, 5:03]
Microsoft: Best Of Breed Doesn't Work
News Building infrastructures based on best of breed concepts does not work, according to Microsoft's group manager in Europe for .Net technical evangelism, Neil Hutson. Microsoft has always worked with Unix, Novel and mainframes very well.
[March 4, 2002, 16:34]
Single Frequency Network Concepts For Cellular OFDM Radio Systems
White Papers In this paper the SFN concept is investigated for bi-directional wireless communication systems like the novel ETSI standard H/2 (HIPERLAN/2), a broadband WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) radio system.
[July 21, 2005, 6:00]
