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10/10/2007
The University of Tulsa has announced the appointment David Greer as the first executive director for its newly formed Institute for Information Security.
10/10/2007
Hitachi this week debuted a new projector for the education market, the CP-A100. The new 3LCD model is capable of projecting a 60-inch image from a range of 1.4 feet. So teaching class in the broom closet shouldn't be a problem anymore ... aside from the crowding.
10/9/2007
The ever-nebulous "Web 2.0" is emerging as one of the five top security risks to watch for both consumers and the enterprise--this according to the inaugural edition of the "GTISC Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2008" out of Georgia Tech's Information Security Center. The report, released at the GTISC Security Summit on Emerging Cyber Security Threats and Countermeasures, identifies the key data security threats that are likely to expand and evolve in the coming year.
10/9/2007
Robotics has become the standard bearer in STEM education as high schools, colleges, and universities around the world focus their software and hardware engineering efforts on inventing better and better machines and ultimately plunge their creations into the underworld of robotics competitions. Now a new site has been launched to promote the educational value of robotics and robotics competitions and provide resources for students and educators.
10/9/2007
Berry College in Georgia is adding biometrics to its security strategy--not for building access control or food services, where biometrics can typically be found, but on individual computers. The technology, BioPassword Enterprise Edition, from a company called BioPassword Inc., will be used to provide an additional layer of security to protect school data using nothing more than users' own keystroke rhythms.
10/9/2007
Campus Technology will host a live Webinar Oct. 16 on the topic of classroom capture and its impact on enrollment and academic outcomes. The Webinar will present a case study on the University of Alabama, which has increased enrollment 30 percent over the last three years while also improving student retention and outcomes.
10/8/2007
Sun Microsystems has formed a new collaborative group focused on developing and sharing best practices for digital archiving: Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (Sun PASIG). The group brings together representatives from industry, education, government, and library services in an effort to preserve and archive research and cultural materials.
10/8/2007
Three researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have come up with a way to improve security on RFID devices using existing technologies and without increasing the size of the small gadgets.
10/8/2007
The Duke University Health System is adopting an Internet-based information management system from Velos called eResearch to support its new "enterprise-wide strategic business model for clinical trials informatics," according to Velos. The platform will be used to improve collaboration in research and support regulatory and financial compliance efforts.
10/8/2007
Mirrors aren't just for motel room ceilings anymore. Among their many other consumer and industrial uses, ranging from the application of cosmetics to the checking of the evenness of one's sideburns, they might also be instrumental in defending the planet from collisions with apocalypse-class asteroids, according to researchers at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
10/5/2007
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) will be the site of IBM's first university-based Cell technology development facility--the Future Technology Solution Design Center. The 2,000-square-foot facility will be housed in IUPUI's Informatics and Communications Technology Complex and staffed by five IBM developers who will explore "new products and applications based on advanced Cell processor technology."
10/5/2007
Blue Lane Technologies has released VirtualShield 4.0, a security solution for VMware Infrastructure 3 and designed to integrate with VMware VirtualCenter.
10/5/2007
Citing fears of file sharing crackdowns and potential security breaches, San Jacinto College in September deployed network access control technologies on its three campuses. The college used a NAC from Mirage Networks.
10/4/2007
Indiana University is launching a new multi-campus communication system based around Connect-ED from the NTI Group. The system, part of the wider IU-Notify system, will be used to provide emergency communications to students, faculty, and staff.
10/4/2007
Last month we wrote about the launch of DOC Cop, a Web-based service that provides free plagiarism detection tools. Since that time, the service has been expanded to include two types of Web checks, in addition to the original Corpus Check and DOC Check.
10/4/2007
Education technology developer Tegrity has launched a new program for its flagship classroom recording system, Campus 2.0: free, semester-long trials for higher education institutions.
10/3/2007
Seattle University in Washington is expanding its emergency notifications with the addition of the e2Campus communication system. According to a Seattle U representative, the university was also busy this summer bolstering its emergency preparedness in other areas.
10/3/2007
Panasonic's Professional Display unit has launched two new plasma display bundles designed for classroom presentation. The bundles include one of two 10-series plasma displays and a cart with an optional 802.11 b/g wireless presentation module.
10/3/2007
The University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA, is adding a broadcast messaging module to its Impulse Point Safe•Connect network access control solution. The university adopted the Safe•Connect NAC earlier this year.
10/3/2007
Wildform, a developer of multimedia tools primarily for online presentations, has unveiled a new hosted service for educators called Wildform Online. The service is designed to provide educators with tools that help them track how users interact with their learning materials and tests.
10/2/2007
MIT has launched the Kerberos Consortium, according to a report from the university's News Office. MIT is the originator of Kerberos, a network authentication protocol. One of the goals of the consortium is to expand it to offer data protection to a wider range of clients, including various consumer devices.
10/2/2007
Frostburg State University in Maryland is bolstering its mass communications program with the addition of a Thomson Grass Valley Indigo AV Mixer to its campus television studio. It will be used to support a wide range of programming that's available via local cable.
10/2/2007
Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) in the Dominican Republic is deploying an ERP solution from Jenzabar called Jenzabar EX Total Campus Management. INTEC, a non-profit university, had previously been using systems developed in house. The university will implement the Jenzabar EX student suite, as well as the Jenzabar Internet Campus Solution, over the next two years.
10/2/2007
Seismic researchers at the University of Houston are hoping to solve problems locating oil and natural gas reserves using IBM Cell/B.E. technology. (All right. The headline might have been a little misleading.) The university's Mission-Oriented Seismic Research Program (M-OSRP) is looking into new algorithms for sub-salt and sub-basalt hydrocarbon exploration and production using systems based on Cell/B.E. processors.
10/1/2007
The Network for Computational Nanotechnology at Purdue University has been awarded an $18.25 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The five-year grant will focus on expanding "capabilities and services for computer simulations," according to the university.
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