The market for wireless sensor networks is quickly expanding. It is estimated that within a few years there could be 100 million wireless sensors in use in a billion-dollar worldwide market.
Researchers in the Herzenberg lab at Stanford have developed and patented a federated directory service system for managing scientific data. Scientific data is often stored in paper-bound notebooks and unstructured computer files which can be difficult to maintain over time.
NPSOL is a software package for solving constrained optimization problems (nonlinear programs). It employs a dense SQP algorithm and is especially effective for nonlinear problems whose functions and gradients are expensive to evaluate.
QPOPT is a software package for solving dense linear and quadratic programs. If the quadratic objective function is convex (definite or semidefinite), the solution obtained is a global optimum.