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University of Pennsylvania Streamlines Procurement, Saving $7.8 Million
White Papers 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.
[October 6, 2006, 0:00]
IBM computers picked for cancer research
News IBM will supply the University of Pennsylvania and four hospitals with computers that will link into a computing "grid" to check for breast cancer, the company will announce on Wednesday. The grid, funded by the National Library of Medicine...
[November 28, 2001, 10:12]
Aussies win RoboCup
News The team who came third (behind Upennalisers from the University of Pennsylvania) was NUBots from the University of Newcastle. Another example is the localisation technology used by the robots, which was used [in conjunction with mapping technology...
[July 17, 2003, 10:24]
Issues and Challenges for Selecting a Programming Language in a Technology Update Course
White Papers The findings of this paper has been implemented in a technology update course that is part of a master degree program in education within the Technology Support and Training (TST) department at Eberly College of Business and Information Technology...
[January 9, 2009, 0:00]
An assistant professor uses Mindjet® MindManager® to make the process of creating online course material more intuitive and efficient.
White Papers Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania An assistant professor of educational technology describes a new methodology that uses Mindjet® MindManager® to make the process of creating online course material more intuitive and efficient.
[September 21, 2006, 0:00]
Security flaw disclosures harm share prices
News Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania found that a vendor's share price drops by an average of 0.63 percent on the day a vulnerability is announced. The results of the study, which tracked 146 vulnerability disclosures for 18...
[June 8, 2005, 17:55]
AJCC Cancer Staging Handbook & Calculator
Downloads Haller, University of Pennsylvania Health System & Monica Morrow, Northwestern University School of MedicinePublisher: Springer-Verlag, Inc. Fleming, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, April Fritz, National Cancer Institute, Charles M.
[May 3, 2003, 8:00]
Experts: Carnivore review had no teeth
News We continue to have serious concerns relating to the Carnivore system," stated the researchers in the report, authored by Steve Bellovin and Matt Blaze from AT&T Laboratories, David Farber from the University of Pennsylvania, Peter Neumann from...
[December 5, 2000, 8:52]
OpenBSD releases version 3.3
News DARPA suddenly and unexpectedly cancelled funding for OpenBSD R&D through the University of Pennsylvania's POSSE programme and the hotel for the upcoming hackathon," it said. As a result of the DARPA review of the project, and due to world events...
[May 1, 2003, 11:25]
Guilty plea from Akamai hacker
News Bombard had launched his "botnet" attacks by gaining control of an army of "zombie" computers, including those on the networks for New York's Columbia University and Pennsylvania's Bucknell University, and using them in an effort to swamp Akamai's...
[December 11, 2006, 15:03]
Universities win funding to model cyberterrorism
News Four other academic groups -- Pennsylvania State University, the University of California at Davis, Purdue University and the International Computer Science Institute -- have been granted $5.34m to develop ways to evaluate and quantify the success...
[October 16, 2003, 12:00]
Douglas Alexander takes on e-minister role
News After studying politics and modern history at Edinburgh University, Alexander moved to the University of Pennsylvania where he worked on the unsuccessful presidential campaign of Michael Dukakis. It is possible that Alexander's responsibilities...
[June 12, 2001, 9:32]
Mac pioneer dead at 61
News Raskin earned bachelor's degrees in mathematics and philosophy from the State University of New York and a masters degree in computer science from the Pennsylvania State University. Reskin was an assistant professor at the University of California...
[February 28, 2005, 9:05]
US colleges may charge for songs
News It is going to work," said Peter Fader, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business who has been independently pushing administrators to pursue on-campus music services.
[August 4, 2003, 11:15]
Microsoft on Trial: MS witness concedes DoJ points
News Earlier in the trial, government witnesses including University of Pennsylvania Professor David Farber and Princeton University Professor Edward Felten testified Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser hampered Netscape's browser by taking over...
[January 20, 1999, 15:20]
Are nanoparticles going to attack your feet?
News Some of the intellectual property behind the company comes from Pennsylvania State University. More immediately, a company in Pennsylvania hopes to use nanoparticles to create less-stinky socks. Researchers believe nanotechnology could someday help...
[September 28, 2004, 9:30]
Firefox hits 10-million mark
News On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania State University's Information Technology Services department recommended that students drop IE in favour of Firefox and Apple's Safari to reduce attacks through vulnerabilities in the Microsoft software.
[December 13, 2004, 7:45]
Napster shuffles executives
News Roxio has helped its visibility by striking a deal with Pennsylvania State University that gives students access to the company's subscription service as part of their student fees. Financial details on that deal were not released, but university...
[January 30, 2004, 7:50]
Protocol holds out faster Web services promise
News The protocol, developed by Jonghun Park, a professor at Pennsylvania State University's School of Information Sciences and Technology, is based on an algorithm that lets it use parallel instead of serial methods to process requests.
[January 31, 2003, 16:18]
Women leaders? Not in our boardroom
News The University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center has found that women account for less than one in five board members of the largest communications companies. The study examined the 2001 annual reports of communications companies...
[August 28, 2002, 8:59]
