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- A Scalability Service for Dynamic Web Applications
- Providers of dynamic Web applications are currently unable to accommodate heavy usage without significant investment in infrastructure and in-house management capability. This goal is to develop technology to enable a third party to offer scalability as a subscription service with "Per-click" pricing to application providers. This paper has developed a...
- Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Web Application, Scalability, Cloud Computing
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Modified Logistic Regression: An Approximation to SVM and Its Applications in Large-Scale Text Categorization
- Logistic Regression LR has been widely used in statistics for many years, and has received extensive study in machine learning community recently due to its close relations to Support Vector Machines SVM and Ad-a-Boost. This paper uses a modified version of LR to approximate the optimization of SVM by a...
- Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Approximation, Logistic Regression, Engineering
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Yahoo and Carnegie Mellon University to work together on supercomputing cluster
- Carnegie Mellon University and Yahoo have announced a collaborative project to advance distributed computing and software research. An excerpt from ZDNet: "We are excited about collaborating with Yahoo on systems software research... and jointly contributing back to the open-source community," Randall E Bryant, dean of the...
- Tags: Supercomputing Cluster, Carnegie-Mellon University, Yahoo! Inc., Distributed Computing, Network Technology, Networking, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Yahoo! and Carnegie Mellon University to work together on supercomputing cluster
- Better channeling of resourcesWould such initiatives be better served if tech firms jointly channeled their resources?
- Tags: pr.arun@..., supercomputing cluster, Carnegie-Mellon University, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- Images: Carnegie Mellon's car navigation system
- The MOVE system operates on the premise that, as with subway maps, less is more and you don't need to see everything in proper scale. by CNET News.com
- Tags: news, automotive, navigation, TechRepublic Inc., Carnegie-Mellon University, MOVE System, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-10-28
- Finding an Effective Sustainable Model for a Wireless Metropolitan-Area Network: Analyzing the Case of Pittsburgh
- Many cities are seeking ways to facilitate the deployment of a Wireless Metropolitan-Area Network WiMAN based on wifitechnology. City leaders must often balance competing goals, including the desire to maximize the area in which wireless services will be available, to maximize competition among providers, to minimize subsidies from government agencies...
- Tags: WMAN, Carnegie-Mellon University, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2007-09-15
- Images: Photo editing for dummies
- Carnegie Mellon University researchers are applying Google's concepts for sifting through data to the tasks of adding or removing images from digital photos.
- Tags: photograph, Carnegie-Mellon University, digital photograph, researcher, image, Google Inc.
- Image galleries 2007-07-12
- Compatibility Is Not Transparency: VMM Detection Myths and Realities
- Recent work on applications ranging from realistic honeypots to stealthier rootkits has speculated about building transparent VMMs - VMMs that are indistinguishable from native hardware, even to a dedicated adversary. This paper surveys anomalies between real and virtual hardware and consider methods for detecting such anomalies, as well as possible...
- Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Hardware, Anomaly, Rootkits, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware
- White papers 2007-04-12
- Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You?
- Component failure in large-scale IT installations is becoming an ever larger problem as the number of components in a single cluster approaches a million. This paper presents and analyzes field-gathered disk replacement data from a number of large production systems, including high-performance computing sites and internet services sites. About 100,000...
- Tags: Disk, Carnegie-Mellon University, High-performance Computing, Internet
- White papers 2007-02-16
- Approximation Algorithms for Degree-Constrained Minimum-Cost Network-Design Problems
- Several problems in the design of communication networks can be modeled as finding a network obeying certain connectivity specifications. For instance, the network may be required to connect all the nodes in the graph a spanning tree problem, a specified subset of the nodes in the graph (a Steiner tree...
- Tags: Algorithm, Carnegie-Mellon University, Network, Problem, Node, Networking
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Investigating Storage Layouts to Improve Parallelism in Interactive Brute-Force Search
- As the storage and processing of data becomes less expensive, huge amounts of new data is being generated by government agencies, research labs and other organizations. It is becoming increasingly important to be able to store and search this data efficiently. This paper investigates different storage layout approaches and their...
- Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Diamond, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-12-11
- Forensic Analysis for Epidemic Attacks in Federated Networks
- This paper presents the design of a Network Forensic Alliance NFA, to allow multiple Administrative Domains ADs to jointly locate the origin of epidemic spreading attacks. ADs in the NFA collaborate in a distributed protocol for post-mortem analysis of worm-like attacks. Information exchange between any two participating ADs is limited...
- Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Network, Analysis, Attack, Security
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Photo: Robot balances, rides on a ball
- The Ballbot from Carnegie Mellon stands tall and scoots around on a small metal sphere.
- Tags: Robots, Carnegie-Mellon University, robot, photograph
- Image galleries 2006-08-10
- Placement, Coordination and Tasking of Static and Mobile Sensor Networks
- Sensor networks consist of nodes that can measure characteristics of their local environment, perform computations, and communicate with each other over a wireless network. In recent years, advancements in hardware and low-level software have led to viable, medium-scale sensor networks consisting of hundreds of nodes that can instrument unstructured environments...
- Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Mobile, Network, Sensor, Networking
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Invited Research Overview: End-User Programming
- In the past few decades there has been considerable work on empowering end users to be able to write their own programs, and as a result, users are indeed doing so. The "Programming" systems used by these end users include spreadsheet systems, web authoring tools, business process authoring tools such...
- Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Web Authoring, Spreadsheet, Programming, Productivity, Operational Planning, Development Tools, Business Operations, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2006-04-22
- Educating an Innovative Services Science Workforce
- In examining the growth of the services industries, the current state of education and the identified educational needs, there is a need for curriculum and programs that address the problems, challenges, and issues of developing and deploying a workforce capable of innovating and providing leadership for the evolving services economy....
- Tags: Sourcing, Service Management, Carnegie-Mellon University, Concentration, Workforce, Purchasing & Procurement, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, It Services, Strategy, Leadership, Business Operations, Human Resources, Management
- White papers 2006-04-12
- Service Oriented Architecture & Quality Attributes
- Nowadays markets demand cutting costs and reducing the time to market for delivering software solutions. A large part of effort has gone in outsourcing rather than giving a look to the technology. In the light of this situation, the Service Oriented Architectures SOA hold a significant promise. It is now...
- Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-03-03
- Ursa Minor: Versatile Cluster-Based Storage
- No single encoding scheme or fault model is optimal for all data. A versatile storage system allows them to be matched to access patterns, reliability requirements, and cost goals on a per-data item basis. Ursa Minor is a cluster-based storage system that allows data-specific selection of, and on-line changes to,...
- Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Storage System, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-12-16
- Improving Privacy Fox: Building Version 2.0
- The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) is a standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to provide a machine-readable language for describing the privacy policy and practices of a website. Privacy Fox is a browser extension for the Mozilla Firefox that allows translation of the P3P XML into...
- Tags: W3C, P3P, Carnegie-Mellon University, Privacy, Web Browsers, Internet
- White papers 2005-12-12
- Bump in the Ether: Mobile Phones as Proxies for Sensitive Input
- User-space malware such as keyboard sniffers, spyware, and Trojans represent a significant threat to today's desktop computing environment. This paper presents Bump in the Ether BitE, an approach for preventing malware from accessing sensitive user input and providing the user with additional confidence that her input is being processed as...
- Tags: Phone, Carnegie-Mellon University, Mobile, Malware, Cell Phone, J2ME MIDP 2.0 Bump In The Ether Mobile Client, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Keyboards, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Peripherals
- White papers 2005-12-08
