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- Collaborative Example Authoring System: The Value of Re-Annotation Based on Community Feedback
- Learning from examples is a common and powerful approach when mastering the art of programming. In the classroom studies of WebEx and NavEx, students highly praised the systems. However, the broader dissemination of this approach was not very successful due to the lack of content - annotated examples. This paper...
- Tags: Annotation, Authoring System, University Of Pittsburgh, Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2007-10-15
- Providing Information and Resources Throughout a University
- The University of Pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States. Students, faculty, staff, and student applicants needed secure, fast, organized, and user-friendly access to information from a variety of University resources. The my.pitt.edu portal was created using BEA AquaLogic User...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., University Of Pittsburgh, Portals, Web Technology, Internet
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- PILOT: A Power-Aware, Location Driven Traffic Forwarding Algorithm for MANETs
- This paper presents PILOT, a new data-forwarding algorithm for ad-hoc networks, that takes into consideration the change in location of the destination over time. PILOT is also power-aware and the rate of increase of the probability of forwarding is closely tied to the current energy level at the node. The...
- Tags: Algorithm, University Of Pittsburgh, Engineering
- White papers 2006-03-09
- Mitigating the Flooding Waves Problem in Energy-Efficient Routing for MANETs
- In wireless Mobile Adhoc NETworks MANETs channel and energy capacities are scarce resources, a lot of energy-efficient routing protocols for MANETs have been previously proposed to take into consideration the nodes' residual energies when establishing routes between source-destination pairs. This paper is not trying to introduce a new routing algorithm...
- Tags: Problem, University Of Pittsburgh, Engineering
- White papers 2005-11-19
- Interactive Authoring Support for Adaptive Educational Systems
- A well-known challenge of adaptive educational systems is the need to develop intelligent content, which is very time and expertise consuming. In traditional approaches a teacher is kept at a distance from intelligent authoring. This paper advocates the involvement of teachers in creating intelligent content. The paper presents an approach...
- Tags: Approach, University Of Pittsburgh, Teacher, Productivity
- White papers 2005-04-29
- Mobile Agent-Based Services for View Materialization
- Mobile agents are ideal for mobile computing environments because of their ability to support asynchronous communication and disconnected data processing. This paper presents a prototype set of extensible mobile-agent based services that allow the definition, materialization, maintenance and sharing of views created over remote web-accessible datasources, called ViSMA (Views Supported...
- Tags: Mobile, University Of Pittsburgh, ViSMA, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2004-11-04
- BLAM: An Energy-Aware MAC Layer Enhancement for Wireless Adhoc Networks
- In wireless adhoc networks channel and energy capacities are scarce resources. However, the design of the IEEE 802.11 DCF protocol leads to an inefficient utilization of these resources. This paper introduces BLAM, a new Battery Level Aware MAC protocol, which is developed from an energy-efficiency point of view to extend...
- Tags: Aware, IEEE 802.11, MAC, Battery, Protocol, University Of Pittsburgh, Engineering, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless
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- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Partners With IBM to Make Tomorrow's Patient Care a Reality
- IBM and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center UPMC saw the opportunity to combine and complement each other's strengths to forge a new generation of healthcare solution. UPMC, a leading IT innovator, sought to become a truly integrated, self-regulating healthcare system, utilizing evidence-based medicine to produce superb clinical outcomes and...
- Tags: Patient, Partnership, Health Care, University Of Pittsburgh, IBM Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance
- Case studies
- SBIR Awarded for RFID Technology Manufacturer
- FirstLink supported the business and proposal development process for Intelligistics, a start-up company based in Southwestern Pennsylvania, to help them receive an SBIR award. Intelligistics is a technology company with expertise and knowledge of advanced material technology, innovative packaging systems design, automatic identification technology known as Radio Frequency Identification RFID,...
- Tags: University Of Pittsburgh, Intelligistics, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
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- University of Pittsburgh Schools Industry in HR, Financial Systems Innovation
- Like other organizations employing non-resident aliens, the University of Pittsburgh must comply with a complex combination of federal tax withholding requirements dictated by the individual's visa status, as well as bilateral tax treaties that vary from nation to nation. Having recently selected Oracle E-Business Suite for its human resources and...
- Tags: Innovation, Human Resources, Oracle Corp., Financial, Industry, Financial System, University Of Pittsburgh, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance
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Additional Resources
- Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh Saves Time and Money With 8e6 Technologies' R3000 Internet Filter
- The Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh FHLBank Pittsburgh works behind the scenes, helping to make the communities of Delaware, Pennsylvania and West Virginia better places to live and work. With extremely sensitive banking information riding the security of the network, FHLBank Pittsburgh and other financial organizations cannot afford to...
- Tags: Bank, 8e6 Technologies, Content Management, Banking, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Services, Spam And Phishing
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- Pittsburgh Steelers (jar)
- Pittsburgh Steelers Theme by BoltsPlanet.com. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Pittsburgh, BoltsPlanet
- Software downloads 2007-11-12
- Homeland Security: Risk Assessment - Conducting a Vulnerability Assessment
- In 2000, the University of Washington UW was invited by FEMA to participate in the Disaster Resistant University Project DRU, along with the University of California, Berkeley, Tulane University, Miami University, University of North Carolina/Wilmington, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The overall goal after identifying risks, and assessing vulnerabilities...
- Tags: Risk Assessment, University Of California At Berkeley, Vulnerability Assessment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Homeland Security, Tools & Techniques, Security, Strategy, Government, Management
- Case studies
- IT Consolidation Initiative Streamlines Government in Pittsburgh, PA
- The Chief Information Officer of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania strongly believes that with strategic planning and innovative technology solutions, any IT organization can dramatically boost its service levels and quality. He has implemented this idea by introducing new HP blade servers to replace legacy ones, a project that has enabled the...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, Information Technology, Government, IT Consolidation, Pittsburgh, IT Consolidation Initiative, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2005-08-01
- UPMC Automates Critical Processes Tied to Patient Care With Business Service Management
- The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center enjoys a strong national and international clinical and research reputation, drawing patients from throughout the United States and across the globe. The challenge faced was transitioning to paperless patient records across the UPMC system while maintaining high availability across a dynamic IT environment. The...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Patient, Business Service Management, UPMC, University Of Pittsburgh Medical Center, It Management, It service Management
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- University Finds e-Learning Success Through Partnerships, Integrated Marketing
- Established in 1847, the University of Iowa is a national research university located in Iowa City. As the university continued to grow and the need for 24x7 training for second- and third-shift employees increased, the central HR learning and development department was tasked with finding a way to expand beyond...
- Tags: Marketing, Partnership, University, SkillSoft, E-learning, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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- Pittsburgh Public Schools - Best Practices
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a large district consisting of 10 high schools, 17 middle schools, and 53 elementary schools, and it became increasingly difficult for the high school students to continue to provide the same level of hardware/software support to the middle schools too. This led to the idea to pilot...
- Tags: School, Best Practice
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- UPMC Implements Business Service Management to Automate Critical Processes Tied to Patient Care
- The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center UPMC enjoys a strong national and international clinical and research reputation, drawing patients from throughout the United States and across the globe. UPMC's IT infrastructure faces the challenge of providing on-demand IT services and high availability of systems. In addition, UPMC initiated a project...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Patient, Business Service Management, UPMC, It Management, It service Management
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- Wireless Networking at the University of Tennessee
- The University of Tennessee is a threeuniversity system comprising The University of Tennessee proper, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and The University of Tennessee at Martin. The University of Tennessee at Knoxville UTK, the university's flagship campus, is a 205-year-old land-grant institution. Its Office of Information Technology OIT had...
- Tags: Network, University, Wireless Networking, Avaya Inc., University Of Tennessee, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Wireless LANs
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- Send internal e-mail to external server using Exchange 2003
- Hi,I have a problem that I can't seem to figure out. First some background. I have Windows Server 2003 Enterprise DC and Exchange Server 2003 on the same machine.I work in a small company that is affilated with a large university. We all use our university email...
- Tags: E-mail servers, SynapsE_z, server, e-mail, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
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