What does DIS stand for?

Cisco is joining with the Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications and Distributed Information Systems (CATT) at Polytechnic Institute of New York University to commercialize breakthrough security technology developed by scientists at Columbia University and Verizon Laboratories.

Cisco is joining with the Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications and Distributed Information Systems (CATT) at Polytechnic Institute of New York University to commercialize breakthrough security technology developed by scientists at Columbia University and Verizon Laboratories.

The problem of bringing together heterogeneous and distributed information systems is known as interoperability problem.

: Demand-Based Document Dissemination to Reduce Traffic and Balance Load in Distributed Information Systems.

According to Carnegie Mellon's web sites, Khosla's specialty appears to be robotics, distributed information systems and information security.

Communications and distributed information systems are increasingly vital to the defense community.

Consequently, users can view and manipulate disparate data without being hampered by protocols and platform-specific limitations, which are common barriers to today's distributed information systems.

The company's Extensible Information Systems (XIS) technology "allows Navy personnel to pull together information from disparate sources into a consolidated information model so they can view and manipulate the data without being hampered by such things as protocols and platform-specific limitations -- all of which are par for the course of today's distributed information systems," said company President Carlos Persichetti in a prepared statement.