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• University of Minnesota Deploys Infoblox Appliances

  - 2008-10-27

  Infoblox Inc. today announced that the University of Minnesota has deployed Infoblox appliances for delivery of core network services, including internal and external domain name resolution DNS and IP address assignment and management (DHCP/IPAM) -- essential to daily operation of its extensive network and applications, enabling access to resources such...

  Tags: Infoblox Inc., INTERNET, NETWORKING, Portals, SECURITY, University of Minnesota

• Voters Feel Growing Angst This Pres. Election Cycle

  - 2008-04-28

  The American people are getting increasingly frustrated. That’s according to Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics & Governance in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota, who told the Minnesota Credit Union Network’s annual meeting that he’s not seen an election...

  Tags: angst, NETWORKING, University of Minnesota

• Regulatory Frameworks And Policy Options For Broadband Growth

  BNET - 2006-06-28

  Two concerns form the background for this paper. One concern was to understand more about the current regulatory parameters that affect the historically dominant telecommunications service provider in Minnesota, namely Qwest Communications, and to consider it's role as a provider of unregulated broadband services. The second concern was to focus...

  Tags: Minnesota, Broadband, University Of Minnesota, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Networking

• Citri-Fi(TM) performs multitude of tasks in bakery foods

  - 2005-01-01

  What is Fiberstar and what role is it playing in the development of enhanced functional fibers?Fiberstar is a company focused solely on developing new technologies regarding food fibers. In 1998, Fiberstar gave funding to the University of Minnesota to commence an extensive study of raw materials to determine what fibers...

  Tags: fiber, food, NETWORKING, University of Minnesota

• A Model of the Rise and Fall of Roads

  BNET - 2004-03-08

  Transportation network planning decisions made at one point of time can have profound impacts in the future. However, transportation networks are usually assumed to be static in models of land use. A better understanding of the natural growth pattern of roads will provide valuable guidance to planners who try to...

  Tags: Network, University Of Minnesota, Transportation, Networking

• Induced Supply: A Model of Highway Network Expansion at the Microscopic Level

  BNET - 2003-09-01

  This paper examines the growth of a highway network based on the present and historical conditions of the network, traffic demand, demographic characteristics, project costs, and budget. The effects of expanding a link on its upstream and downstream neighbors, as well as on parallel links, are also considered. Data span...

  Tags: Network, University Of Minnesota, Networking

• Acclaimed author James Welch dies

  - 2003-08-20

  Selden, Ron Indian Country Today Lakota Times 08-20-2003 MISSOULA, Mont. - Known widely as a humble builder of cultural bridges, internationally acclaimed American Indian novelist James Welch died here Aug. 4 of a heart attack following a 10-month battle with lung cancer....

  Tags: Montana, NETWORKING, SECURITY, University of Minnesota

• Effectiveness of Variable Message Signs

  BNET - 2002-11-26

  This paper assesses the effectiveness of Variable Messages Signs VMS on route guidance by a discrete probit choice model that estimates the proportion of vehicles that diverts to an alternative routes given the characteristics of different messages. A before-and-after study is also conducted to quantitatively evaluate the network wide reduction...

  Tags: University Of Minnesota, Networking

• Northern (high) lights.

  - 2002-09-01

  More than 1,600 abstracts were presented at the joint meeting of the American Dairy Science Association, American Society of Animal Science and the Canadian Society of Animal Science held in late July in Quebec City, Canada. Here's our recap of the highlights. Healthier...

  Tags: NETWORKING, researcher, University of Minnesota

• Freeway Origin Destination Matrices, Not as Simple as They Seem

  BNET - 2002-06-28

  Travel demand can be elegantly represented using an Origin-Destination OD matrix. The link counts observed on the network are produced by the underlying travel demand. One could use these counts to reconstruct the OD matrix. An offline approach to estimate a static OD matrix over the peak period for freeway...

  Tags: Count, Matrix, University Of Minnesota, Networking