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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a leading higher education institution and a pioneer when it comes to merging technologies to enhance education. When professors at MIT decided to seek new ways of using technology to improve the educational experience at MIT, they turned to Microsoft, forming an alliance to help develop student and faculty projects aimed at using information technology to stimulate and enhance academic and student life. ShuttleTrack and iLab are iCampus projects that use XML Web services and the Microsoft .NET Framework to provide new, innovative ways of accessing information to MIT students and the MIT community. |
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- StreamServe is a leader in the fast-growing enterprise business communication market. They wanted to improve operational efficiency across its consulting operations by implementing a central mechanism for resource and project planning, logging of consultants' time and generating customer invoices. They have implemented a new solution from innovative software solutions provider Epicor Software Corporation. The suite of Web-based applications, called Epicor for Service Enterprises, uses more than 60 Web services to manage essential business processes more effectively-from resource and project planning to managing travel, expenses and invoicing. The offering was built from the ground up in just 24 months using the Microsoft . |
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- The Ministry of Sound is home to clubbers around the world. The popularity of its UK operation has gone from strength to strength and its Web site is central to the brand image, supporting the company's growth. It is also a vital communication channel for all clubbers about Ministry of Sound releases and events. The company wanted to provide a richer user experience and ensure the site was easier to support and maintain going forward. It worked with Microsoft partner Domino Systems to rebuild the site using the Microsoft . |
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- The State of Texas expects its new electronic filing system to significantly reduce the cost that courts incur for document filing. With millions of documents filed each year, the savings could reach millions of dollars. The electronic filing system, created as a joint project by Microsoft and BearingPoint, was developed for the TexasOnline Authority using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework. |
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- Faced with economic imperatives to keep foreign trade flowing but under tighter control and security, the Austrian government has introduced a Web-based import licensing system that enables unprecedented co-operation between public agencies. Built on the Microsoft .NET Framework and XML Web services, the Paperless Foreign Trade Administration (PAWA) system is an efficient and cost-effective solution that improves the management of imports and provides importers with a faster and seamless service. |
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- StreamServe is a leader in the fast-growing enterprise business communication market. They wanted to improve operational efficiency across its consulting operations by implementing a central mechanism for resource and project planning, logging of consultants' time and generating customer invoices. They have implemented a new solution from innovative software solutions provider Epicor Software Corporation. The suite of Web-based applications, called Epicor for Service Enterprises, uses more than 60 Web services to manage essential business processes more effectively-from resource and project planning to managing travel, expenses and invoicing. The offering was built from the ground up in just 24 months using the Microsoft . |
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- The State of Texas expects its new electronic filing system to significantly reduce the cost that courts incur for document filing. With millions of documents filed each year, the savings could reach millions of dollars. The electronic filing system, created as a joint project by Microsoft and BearingPoint, was developed for the TexasOnline Authority using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework. |
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- Collegiate Funding Services, LLC (CFS), an experienced provider of financial product and service programs to the higher education and postgraduate communities, needed a platform to support the rapid growth, expansion, and integration needs of the business as well as to generate greater efficiencies and stability that the existing legacy system could not provide. When Collegiate Funding Services outgrew its legacy customer service system, it turned to the Microsoft .NET Framework. CFS built a base platform to provide a common architecture for all their applications, plus an application for processing loan applications, in half the expected time. The first Microsoft . |
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- Mobiles Outnumber Fixed-line Phones "In 2002, for the first time, the number of mobile phones worldwide outnumbered fixed-line phones, according to the ITU.... In less developed countries in Asia and South America, where fixed-line infrastructure is underdeveloped, mobile phones are the most economic means of communication, and as a result there has been massive mobile phone growth in these countries. This is likely to continue for some time. According to the ITU only 36.35% of the world’ |
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- Flash soccer: The Game of 3 Halves.... |
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- Flash soccer: The Game of 3 Halves. |
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- Otis Elevator Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, is the world's largest manufacturer, installer, and services of elevators, escalators, moving walkways and other horizontal transportation systems. They wanted to get to a data mining solution that would allow them to analyze their Web site, but there was a big part missing. They needed to gather all of the Web site traffic information so data mining could take place using other analysis tools. NetTracker has provided that missing piece. |
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- A switch in reporting tools has given online vitamin and natural supplement marketer MotherNature.com, Concord, MA, increased control over the tracking of visitors to its site. The company began using Sane Solutions' NetTracker eBusiness late last year after outgrowing its previous reporting tool from WebTrends. NetTracker gives them insights into how people are getting to their site [and] who's the referring site that helps them from a marketing point of where they should be spending marketing dollars. |
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- For Hotwire, a business based completely online, understanding where their customers come from and what they are buying is essential not only to sustaining business, but to making intelligent marketing budget allocation decisions that grow business. Since understanding customer needs and demographics plays such a vital role at Hotwire it was important to make sure that insight is captured accurately, thoroughly and affordably. Hotwire did a thorough evaluation of all the leading Web analytics solutions on the market. They found NetTracker to be very consistent. Hotwire also discovered the value that an open database schema behind the user interface could bring them. |
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- FreshDirect is an online fresh food and grocery company providing online food delivery service to thousands of customers in New York City. Considering the scope of the products available on the FreshDirect Web site, FreshDirect needed a Web site analysis solution which would help them get a handle on what would otherwise be out of control - identifying the product categories, site architecture, marketing campaigns and product promotions that were working best, not working at all, or could be producing greater ROI. NetTracker from Sane Solutions provided a comprehensive Web site traffic analysis and online behavior analysis solution that came at an affordable price. |
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- Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) graphs is a useful technique for organizing classifiers and visualizing their performance. ROC graphs are commonly used in medical decision making, and in recent years have been increasingly adopted in the machine learning and data mining research communities. Although ROC graphs are apparently simple, there are some common misconceptions and pitfalls when using them in practice. This paper serves as a tutorial introduction to ROC graphs and as a practical guide for using them in research. |
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- This paper investigates a number of issues related to the use of multiple trust authorities in the type of identifier based cryptography enabled by the Weil and Tate pairings. An example of such a system is the Boneh and Franklin encryption scheme. It examines how to create an efficient hierarchy of multiple trust authorities and then go on to examine some application areas of pairing based cryptography. |
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- No one actually responded to my question: How beating women which is the exact advice of Quran to the men, can ever be interpreted as something not against the basic rights of human kind? |
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- One either knows Vigen as the "king of Iranian Jazz music", or knows what Jazz music is about. |
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- Dear Mary, So sorry you are having a bad day. Keep |
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- The following IDC Executive Brief explores midsize businesses' entry into Web-native applications. Today's competitive and challenging business environment has made this model of software delivery increasingly attractive, providing a flexible service with quick implementation. IDC reports that businesses engaging Web-native applications will reap a 404% ROI over the life of the contract. These impressive results-combined with the fact that surviving Web-native application vendors are targeting the mid-market enterprise-point to long-term growth opportunities for software services. |
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- Supply-Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) is a cross-industry, standardized supply-chain reference model for analyzing and improving supply chain operations. By applying SCOR methodology to internal supply chain projects, Intel has evolved a SCOR best-known method (BKM). This paper summarizes Intel's experience with SCOR and highlights future modeling and simulation activities. |
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- Intel is working to become a 100 percent e-corporation, extending its efforts beyond browser-based order-taking to fully integrate order management, supply chain operations, and back-end ERP system activities. For IT managers, the effort offers an example of how important far-reaching supply chain initiatives can be undertaken. Read the detailed white paper to explore the many technical and business issues related to this effort of updating Intel's order management system. |
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- The singer's information is essential in organizing, browsing and retrieving music collections. In this technical report, a system for automatic singer identification is developed which recognizes the singer of a song by analyzing the music signal. Meanwhile, songs which are similar in terms of singer's voice are clustered. The proposed scheme follows the framework of common speaker identification systems, but special efforts are made to distinguish the singing voice from instrumental sounds in a song. A statistical model is trained for each singer's voice with typical song(s) of the singer. |
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- Picture of Tom - Kay Fernandes http://www. tomhurndall. co. uk/gallery. |
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- A new listserve has been created to facilitate discussion among queers attending the ftaa protests in miami, N20, with the goal of organizing a col... - www.nyc.indymedia.org: |
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- While building a new tree from scratch can be a complex task, migrating existing directory information from another service presents its own set of challenges. Many networks are currently using Novell Directory Services (NDS) as their primary storehouse for directory service information, and with the release of Windows NT Server 5.0, there will be a need to migrate that NDS information to the new Active Directory service. Windows NT Server 5.0 includes a Directory Services Migration Tool (DS Migrate) that makes it possible to import NDS information across the network and model it as needed before committing the new data to the actual Active Directory tree. |
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- The Sun ONE Directory Server 5.2 is a powerful, scalable distributed directory server based onindustry standards, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), and the Directory ServicesMarkup Language (DSML). Part of the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE), the Sun ONE DirectoryServer provides the foundation for the new generation of e-business applications and Web services,with a centralized and distributed data repository that can be used in an intranet or over anextranet with trading partners. <BR> |
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- Ask any technologist who reads the trade papers, and they will tell you that LDAP and directory systems are here to stay. This white paper from Syntegra weighs in on the state of LDAPs and why directory systems are the logical step in terms of uniting data, process and technology for the enterprise. |
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- A communications revolution is underway that is reshaping how corporations are structured, how healthcare isdelivered, how education is accomplished, and how governments serve their citizens. This revolution is driven by accessto information at any time from any device, and from anywhere. Directory services play an important role in providinginformation access across town or around the world. These services depend on Internet-based (TCP/IP) interaction withthe Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). < |
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- The computers we use are not secure, and they are even less so when connected to the Internet. A lot of blame has been put on lazy system administrators for not applying patches promptly, but the fault is not entirely theirs. The authors believe that distributed systems should be designed to make attacks harder and to limit the damage done when attacks succeed. The author proposes three components of the system architecture that address these goals and make distributed systems easier to monitor and manage, while simplifying the task of writing secure applications. |
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- Emergency workers on Tuesday stopped the flow of water into a flooded mine in southern Russia where 13 miners have been trapped for five days, officials said, as drillers came within yards of the men's presumed location. |
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