Early in 1970, a research project was started at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center to implement a prototype system to improve dataset security and resource allocation in the Systern1360 Model 91 that was operating there. Late in 1970, the IBM San Jose Research Laboratory began to consider problems of managing a rapidly growing database in their System1360 Model 91. TSO service was being ...

Hydraulic conductivity variations around the boreholes in uniformly graded sands for cyclic water injection pressure have been evaluated by laboratory tests. Prototype laboratory devices have been designed and constructed for this research. The cell has a capability to model the well, the boundary condition and to measure the hydraulic conductivity. While increasing water injection pressure, hy...

Validation is an essential and important step before the application of remote sensing products. This paper introduces a prototype of the validation network for remote sensing products in China (VRPC). The VRPC aims to improve remote sensing products at a regional scale in China. These improvements will enhance the applicability of the key remote sensing products in understanding and interpreta...

—This paper presents the solar energy e-learning laboratory, developed at the Higher Technical Institute (HTI) within the framework of the Leonardo da Vinci project MARVEL, focuses on the system architecture and its features, and elaborates on the learning platform employed. The laboratory focuses on experiential based learning-arrangements allowing remote and distributed training with the labo...

As scientists, we must make ostensibly either-or tradeoffs in order to gather the data needed to properly evaluate a prototype, algorithm, or phenomena. Either we evaluate prototypes in a controlled, laboratory environment, or we evaluate them in an unstructured, real world environment. However, we feel that there are ways to push this seeming boundary between real world and laboratory studies....