Maine IT Workforce Skills Management : A study for the Maine State Department of Labor

Executive Summary: From August 2010 to February 2011 personnel from Information and Innovation at the University of Southern Maine have conducted a study of IT skills needed, possessed and taught in Maine. The goals of this study were to provide fine-grained information to the Maine state Department of Labor to facilitate their workforce development activities. This study concerns the skills sought after by employers, possessed by unemployed and employed workers and taught in education and training establishments with a bricks and mortar presence in Maine. It relied on data created by third parties and by study personnel. Anecdotal evidence was gathered from meetings with local industry IT professionals as well. This study does not attempt to estimate demand or supply of a given skill, but it does assess which skills are in greatest and least demand, which skills are in greatest and least supply, and which skills are taught more and less often. The results of data analysis are presented in a new measure, skill rank disparity, which exposes skill and training gaps and gluts. This study provides certain insights into its results, observing individual cases of skills high in demand and low in supply, for example. Insights are also provided in terms of groups of skills that are often taught, often asked for, and whether these groups of skills are well-represented in the Maine IT workforce. This study also provides specific and actionable recommendatio

Input/Output and Devices: Microprocessor System I/O [Book Chapter]

Chapter from Eshbach’s Handbook of Engineering Fundamentals, 4ed., edited by Myer Kutz. Bantz also authored another chapter in this volume: Chapter 9.10 Input/Output and Devices: General Considerationshttps://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1480/thumbnail.jp

Challenges in Autonomic Personal Computing with Some New Results in Automatic Configuration Management

Autonomic personal computing is personal computing on autonomic platforms. It shares the goals of personal computing - responsiveness, ease of use and flexibility - with those of autonomic computing - simplicity, availability and security. The challenge of autonomic personal computing is to simplify and enhance the end-user experience, delighting the user by anticipating his or her needs in the face of this complex, dynamic and uncertain environment. We motivate the need to deploy autonomic computing carefully on personal computing systems, and report on recent work in automatic management of the software and data configuration of personal computing platforms. This work identifies remedial actions automatically, but takes care to explain and motivate them to the end user and never acts without approval

Wireless LAN Design Alternatives

The authors have discussed several alternatives in wireless LAN design: media choice, operating frequency, operating mode, network topology, and access method. Although each technical choice presents both advantages and disadvantages, they argue that there is a design point that provides the best fit with present and future wireless LAN user needs. Considering all factors/spl mdash/including robustness, regulatory considerations, and interference avoidance/spl mdash/using a product based on the slow frequency-hopping spread spectrum, in the 2.4 GHz ISM band, relying on a base station remote station network topology and using a TDMA-based access method is the best way to meet the needs of radio-frequency wireless LAN users. The choices are many, but slow frequency-hopping at 2.4 GHz and TDMA-based medium access control provide the best mix of cost, range, interference, and performance

Reviews of Instructional Software in Scholarly Journals : A Selected Bibliography

This bibliography lists reviews of more than 100 instructional software packages, which are arranged alphabetically by discipline. Information provided for each entry includes the topical emphasis, type of software (i.e., simulation, tutorial, analysis tool, test generator, database, writing tool, drill, plotting tool, videodisc), the journal citation of the review, the name and institutional affiliation of the author of the review, the length of the review, and the copyright-holding agency. Subject areas represented by the reviews include biology, chemistry, economics, education, engineering, English composition and literature, geology, history, foreign languages, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, physics, and psychology.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1482/thumbnail.jp

An Architecture for the Coordination of System Management Services

Today, system management services are implemented by dedicated subsystems, built using proprietary system management components. These subsystems are customized to automate their operations to the extent feasible. This model has been successful in dedicated enterprise environments, but there are opportunities to broaden the scope of these services to multicustomer utility computing environments while reducing the costs of providing these services. A new model suitable for utility computing is being developed to address these opportunities. This model features several new elements: (1) a repository to represent the state of the remotely managed components and of the services that manage them, (2) a repository of policies and operational constraints, and (3) a set of meta-management services that use existing management services to analyze, construct, and safely execute a complex set of management tasks on remote systems. The meta-management services manage the system management services provided by the utility--they guide and modify the behavior of the services, often as a result of the collective analysis of the state of one or more services. In this paper, we describe requirements and behaviors of such meta-management services and the architecture to provide them. We focus on the components of this architecture that enable and provide effective meta-management services in a utility environment

IT Workforce Decision Support (June 2011), a report to the Maine State Economic Improvement Fund.

This report is referenced in the bibliography of an application for support for an IT degree at USM.. Bantz, D., Paradis, C. D., & Wilson, G. (2011). Maine IT Workforce Skills Management. Information and Innovation, USM https://pdfslide.net/reader/f/date-february-24-2014-university-of-maine-february-24-2014-to-andrew-anderso

The Emerging Model of Subscription Computing

Subscription computing is a package of computer and networking hardware, system and selected application software, and support services necessary to build and maintain a basic computing platform. The package commonly includes a suite of personal-productivity applications, add-ins, and utilities. Some providers include a wide range of business services through a portal. Subscription computing puts the pieces of a computing platform together as a service, rather than as a collection of separately purchased components

Harmony: A desktop grid for delivering enterprise computations

We describe Harmony-a grid infrastructure built using personal computer resources. Harmony addresses the key concerns of end users for responsiveness, privacy and protection by isolating the grid computation in a virtual machine on the PC. Harmony also addresses the key concerns of enterprise IT by automating the configuration and deployment of grid services and by automating the workload management so as to meet quality of service goals. Harmony\u27s layered resource management architecture diverts grid workload to currently under utilized desktop resources. Harmony is designed to handle transactional workload-a key characteristic of commercial applications. Our implementation is Web services-based, so the programming model of Harmony is compatible with and familiar to enterprise developers. We believe that Harmony demonstrates practical exploitation of a hitherto underutilized resource of considerable capability, with the potential to complement, or even in some cases replace, dedicated server-based resources

YODA: An advanced display for personal computers

Executive Summary: From August 2010 to February 2011 personnel from Information and Innovation at the University of Southern Maine have conducted a study of IT skills needed, possessed and taught in Maine. The goals of this study were to provide fine-grained information to the Maine state Department of Labor to facilitate their workforce development activities. This study concerns the skills sought after by employers, possessed by unemployed and employed workers and taught in education and training establishments with a bricks and mortar presence in Maine. It relied on data created by third parties and by study personnel. Anecdotal evidence was gathered from meetings with local industry IT professionals as well. This study does not attempt to estimate demand or supply of a given skill, but it does assess which skills are in greatest and least demand, which skills are in greatest and least supply, and which skills are taught more and less often. The results of data analysis are presented in a new measure, skill rank disparity, which exposes skill and training gaps and gluts. This study provides certain insights into its results, observing individual cases of skills high in demand and low in supply, for example. Insights are also provided in terms of groups of skills that are often taught, often asked for, and whether these groups of skills are well-represente