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CMU Hosts Gulf Meeting to Seed Arabic Language Tech

7/9/2007

Information technology researchers and executives from around the Middle East convened in Qatar recently to participate in an "Arabic Search Engine Workshop" hosted by Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMUQ).

U Alberta Researchers Pit AI Program Against Card Sharks

7/9/2007

A team of computer science researchers at the University of Alberta are pitting Polaris, their poker-playing computer program, against two of the best Texas Hold 'em card players in the hemisphere. The purse is $50,000 in the 2,000-hand match between card sharks Phil Laak and Ali Eslami and the Alberta team, led by Jonathan Schaeffer.

Notre Dame Sharpens Online Alumni Offerings

7/5/2007

The University of Notre Dame is revamping its alumni relations with social networking and online engagement capabilities, which it will provide to roughly 120,000 graduates in more than 300 alumni clubs, classes and affinity groups.

VoIP Network Smoothes Medical Campus Transition for UCH

7/5/2007

Aurora, CO-based University of Colorado Hospital tapped voice over IP (VoIP) and data communications provider NEC Unified Solutions to create a scalable IP/TDM voice network to help deliver enhanced patient care at its new and growing Anschutz Medical Campus.

Haiku Updates Learning Management System

7/5/2007

Education software developer Haiku Inc. has released an update to its learning management system, Haiku LMS. The new 2.0 release, which launched June 20, adds a variety of functional and UI enhancements. A 2.1 upgrade is also expected within the next few weeks.

Minnesota Opts for E-Transcripts

7/5/2007

Minnesota has aligned itself with the Midwestern Higher Education Compact's (Minneapolis, MN) electronic transcript initiative, which seeks to facilitate the electronic transfer of high school transcripts to colleges.

Kuali Financial System Is Live at Strathmore University

7/3/2007

Strathmore University in Nairobi has turned on its implementation of the Kuali Financial System, making the Kenyan university the first institution to go live with the much-anticipated open source financials.

Campus Messaging System Upgrades Continue Apace

7/3/2007

Colleges and universities around the country are continuing to rapidly adopt or upgrade their electronic and wireless messaging systems for campus emergency alerts in the wake of the Virginia Tech mass murder.

Spelman Fields Robotic Soccer Team at RoboCup Games

7/3/2007

Spelman College, the historically black college for women based in Atlanta, GA, is fielding a team of soccer-playing robots at RoboCup 2007, an international competition to promote research into artificial intelligence and robotics.

Stanford Team Enters Robot Car in DARPA Urban Race

7/3/2007

A team of Stanford University robotic researchers will test a driverless Volkswagen Passat wagon named Junior in this fall's Urban Challenge, an unmanned car race sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

UMD Researchers Build Single-Chip Supercomputer

7/3/2007

University of Maryland researchers have developed a new technology they describe as a "single-chip supercomputer prototype," which would be capable of speeds 100 times faster than current desktops. It is based on parallel processing on a single chip.

U Washington To Serve Students Recording Industry Lawsuits

7/2/2007

The University of Washington last week said it would charge students it detects are illegally downloading music with copyright violations on behalf of the recording industry.

Johns Hopkins, U Maryland Open Language Tech Center

7/2/2007

Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland have been tapped by the United States Department of Defense to create and operate a high-tech language analysis center that would focus on developing systems for automatically analyzing a range of speech, text, and document image data in multiple languages.

Adobe Ships CS3 Master Collection, Production Premium Suite

7/2/2007

Adobe today is launching the Creative Suite 3 Production Premium and Creative Suite 3 Master Collection, the two final installments in the Creative Suite 3 rollout.

JP Morgan, Syracuse Partner on Financial IT Curriculum

7/2/2007

Investment banking firm JP Morgan Chase announced a $30 million partnership with Syracuse University designed to supply the bank with graduates trained in financial and information technology.

LUC Fine Tunes Site for Recruitment

6/28/2007

Loyola University Chicago recently revamped its website’s organization and features in an attempt to target and attract prospective students. According to Loyola, 77.8 percent of freshman its applications were received online, and the majority of the current freshman class was chosen from online applicants.

Central Connecticut Contracts Oce To Scan Student Data

6/28/2007

Central Connecticut State University recently contracted Oce Business services to provide the university with archival scanning technology to help preserve student information.

Interactive Version of 'Holt Biology' Unveiled

6/28/2007

Secondary education publisher Holt Rinehart and Winston (Atlanta, GA) has unveiled its Interactive Online Edition of Holt Biology, which includes various interactive features such as downloadable English and Spanish audio readings for replay on portable audio players, such as iPods.

CBN Launches 3 Lead-Generation Portals

6/28/2007

The CollegeBound Network (CBN) has beefed up its higher education search and lead-generation services by adding threw new search sites: Top10ComputerSchools.com, TopCareerSchools and CanandianSchoolSearch.com.

Academic Research Group Bolsters Leadership Team

6/27/2007

The Computing Research Association (CRA) has picked 16 higher education computing researchers to serve as members of its first permanent Council for the Computing Community Consortium.

Georgia DTAE To Standardize Student Evaluations, Planning Surveys

6/27/2007

The Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education (GDTAE), which oversees the Technical College System of Georgia, said it plans to standardize on Scantron's Class Climate and eListen systems in order to standardize the surveys it conducts with students.

Luidia Previews Classroom Technologies

6/27/2007

At the InfoComm show in Anaheim, CA last week, Luidia previewed several upcoming enhancements to its line of classroom technologies, including new student response capabilities and various updates to eBeam-based systems.

New Ranking System Puts Terrapins Second in Comp-Sci

6/26/2007

The University of Maryland has the second-best computer science department in the United States. Surprised? Based on a new department ranking system that considers how many articles a faculty has published, as well its level of participation in professional conferences, the Terrapin CS department outranks most of the usual vaunted suspects, including Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and the University of Illinois.

Israeli University Team Produces Detailed Map of the Internet

6/26/2007

A team of Israeli university researchers has finished a project to map the structure of the Internet, which involved some 5,000 volunteers, who downloaded software to help identify Internet nodes and connections between them.

Elluminate Releases Live! V8

6/26/2007

Education technology developer Elluminate has released Elluminate Live! V8, an update to the company's flagship e-learning, conferencing, and online collaboration tool. The new version adds a variety of functional enhancements and is available now. The company's vRoom, a free conferencing tool based on Elluminate Live!, is also being updated to incorporate some of the functionality of Live! V8.