This project team researched and developed a web-based portal to Teradyne's Automated Testing Equipment (ATE). Current ATE access is platform-dependent, provides information about a single ATE, and requires substantial training. The team analyzed these shortcomings and built a prototype system that can integrate information about a number of ATEs and display it through an intuitive and widely available web-browser interface.

Nuera is an IP (Internet Protocol) telephony solutions provider that develops award-winning packet-voice telephony systems. The Clinic team's task was to develop a media gateway control application. Combined with Nuera's media gateways, this application shall form a distributed bulk call tester capable of emulating a traditional circuit switched voice network. The application will utilize the Media Gateway Control Protocol. Emphasis was placed on application performance and functionality such as flexible call scripting and test scheduling.

Tree-based statistical analysis is a powerful technique which uses binary decision trees to analyze complex data. After investigating several methods of tree construction, the Marine Biological Laboratory Clinic team developed and implemented two algorithms: k-step lookahead and genetic programming. The genetic programming algorithm allows near-optimal trees to be produced, without incurring the computational cost associated with a full search for the optimal tree. Parallel computation was used to decrease the real time required for analysis.

The Mission Data Systems project of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is building a software framework for controlling spacecraft missions on a declarative basis. Essentially, systems on the spacecraft are given goals that specify properties of state that must hold between points in time. These time points themselves are temporally constrained, with the goals, time points, and constraints forming a network. The team designed and implemented a tool that allows users to visualize the static and dynamic aspects of these networks, as they would arise during a spacecraft mission.

The IBM Clinic team designed and implemented a system that displays electronic books (eBooks) authored in the Open eBook Structure format. The reader, NOVeLLA, allows the user to navigate eBooks using either a traditional graphical user interface, or using voice commands. The book can be read from the screen, or NOVeLLA can read it aloud. Textual, graphical, and voice annotations can be added. All voice and speech features are implemented using IBM's Via Voice for Java API.

One of the challenges of Internet communication is transferring information between two platforms of differing modal capabilities -- for example, between a desktop computer with a high resolution graphics display, and a handheld device with a small text-only display. One solution is through modality transformation, which allows for conversion of information to an alternate set of modalities that will work on the available platform. The HRL Clinic team developed an architecture to negotiate communication across different platforms and implemented some key transformations using the Java Media Framework.

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The growth of the Internet, and the subsequent growth in the number of corporate and institutional networks, as well as individual host computers, has resulted in an ever increasing number of occurrences of network intrusion. The Aerospace Clinic team did research into existing intrusion detection tools as well as into various strategies of fighting intrusion via the use of multiple intrusion detection systems.

Concorde Solutions, Inc. (a subsidiary of Bank of America) provides a suite of tools that simplify connectivity to legacy database systems. The CSI/Bank of America Clinic team designed and implemented a visual script editor for CSI's DOMScript, a proprietary scripting language that is used to configure CSI's Data Object Manager (DOM) tool suite. Key design goals included simplifying the script-editing process while maintaining referential integrity within the domain of the application.