Institute News

  • UB Team's Model for Protecting High-Speed Networks Achieves High-Bandwidth Efficiency and Fast Recovery
    3/21/02
    Researchers at the University at Buffalo have developed the first approach that achieves both high-bandwidth efficiency and fast recovery speeds in protecting mission-critical computer connections against high-speed network failures.
  • UB to Offer Master's Program in Supply Chains and Operations Management
    3/5/02
    In response to feedback from industry practitioners, the University at Buffalo School of Management will offer a new Master's of Science program in Supply Chains and Operations Management (MS-SC&OM) beginning in the fall.
  • UB Researchers Focus on Improving Performance of Cell Phones, Avoiding Busy Signals
    10/10/01
    Making sure that cell-phone calls go through, particularly in times of disaster, as well as at times of heaviest use, is the goal of new architecture for next-generation wireless systems for cellular telephones being proposed by researchers at the University at Buffalo.
  • New Wireless Architecture Would Extend Cell-Phone Coverage to Where It Is Needed Most
    6/12/01
    A new architecture for next-generation wireless systems for cellular phones proposed by University at Buffalo researchers could provide an efficient and flexible way to extend outdoor coverage, as well as provide indoor coverage, without building additional cellular phone towers.
  • NSF Grant Funds UB Study on Economic Effects of Urban-Planning Strategies
    1/10/01
    Alex Anas, Ph.D., Frank H. and Josephine L Goodyear Professor in the Department of Economics in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, who has developed a new strategic-planning model that will allow urban planners to examine alternative "what-if" scenarios in advance and predict their consequences, and his interdisciplinary project team have received a $450,000 award from the National Science Foundation to continue their three-year study of the effect of different infrastructure investment-and-financing strategies on the development of metropolitan areas.
  • National Recognition, More Inventions And Lower Rents For Start-Ups Mark First Year Of UB Business Alliance
    1/19/00
    In its first year of operation, the UB Business Alliance has received a "Project of the Year" award from a national organization, boosted its royalty income and the numbers of inventions disclosed and made significant changes in its incubator facility, making it easier for start-ups to rent space. The UB Business Alliance will mark these and other accomplishments at an anniversary celebration to be held Jan. 26 in the Center for the Arts.