IP services and professional standards

Professional Standards Review Organizations

Licensing IP embodied in standards

How should a standardization body such as the IEEE deal with patents and copyrights on technology essential to using a standard? A recent controversy within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C, ) over a Microsoft patent illustrates the kind of problem that can arise when intellectual property rights cloud users' right of access to a standard. As yet, the IEEE has not developed...

Extending a Standards-based IP and Computer Telephony Platform to Support Multi-modal Services

Despite recent advances in Computer Telephony (CT) and IP Telephony (IPT) standards at defining flexible architectures to support new technologies, the current CT paradigm does not adequately support the requirements of advanced spoken dialogue systems. This paper describes an application framework based on CT and IPT standards that defines new architectural components for information access, a...

Professional Development And The Implementation Of Standards

New National and State standards are being mandated for all children, including children with disabilities. The challenge is to ensure that teachers have the training and tools to meet the needs of a heterogeneous population. This presentation describes a professional development effort for teachers designed to model standard-based instruction in science, so that their students can achieve the ...

VALUATION UNCERTAINTY Common Professional Standards and Methods

Valuation is often said to be “an art not a science” but this relates to the techniques employed to calculate value not to the underlying concept itself. Valuation is the process of estimating price in the market place. Yet, such an estimation will be affected by uncertainties. Uncertainty in the comparable information available; uncertainty in the current and future market conditions and uncer...