Digital Media
- LOC Funds U Illinois Virtual Content Preservation Project
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8/21/2007
The Library of Congress announced $2.5 million in grants for projects to establish digital format standards for preserving photos, films, music, and video games. The funding covers eight organizations involved in significant digital content projects, including UCLA's Film and Television Archive and the "Preserving Virtual Worlds" project at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
- U Penn To Put Special Collections Online
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8/17/2007
Penn Libraries, the University of Pennsylvania Library system, is embarking on a project to digitize its special collections, including rare books and historical documents. The project will kick off this summer and culminate in a fully searchable collection of rare books online.
- U Portland Deploys File-Sharing Software
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8/17/2007
The University of Portland recently deployed GroupDrive software from South River Technologies, a developer of file transfer and collaboration software, for online file sharing on its campus. The software will be used for student and faculty collaboration, as well as for the university's back office, and is designed to replace other forms of online file-sharing such as email, according to South River.
- U Oklahoma Taps Day for Content Management
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8/15/2007
The University of Oklahoma will deploy Day Software's Communiqué, an enterprise Web content management suite, to help revamp the school's various portals for students, staff, and alumni.
- Profs Building Open-Source Educational Gaming Engine
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8/13/2007
Washington State University Vancouver professor Scott Wallace and University of Puget Sound computer science professor Andrew Nierman were recently awarded a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to build a gaming engine designed to make learning computer science more absorbing for students.
- CLIR Appoints Michael Keller Senior Presidential Fellow
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8/8/2007
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has announced the appointment of Stanford University librarian Michael Keller as CLIR Senior Presidential Fellow.
- Apple Upgrades iMac Line
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8/7/2007
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today introduced the company's new lineup of all in one iMac systems, replacing the previous lineup. The new models come in two form factors: one with a 20-inch screen, one with a 24-inch screen. Both now sport aluminum enclosures like the Mac Pro and MacBook Pro systems. The new systems are based around Intel's latest Core 2 Duo processors running at clock speeds up to 2.8 GHz.
- Adobe Names Design Competition Winners
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8/6/2007
Adobe last week announced the results of its annual Design Achievement Awards, a competition honoring the best student work in design, video, film, illustration, and animation. More than 2,500 students from 30 countries competed in the 2007 program. Most of the awards went to students from the United States and Germany, with South Korea picking up one.
- USC Unveils TrojanTV Entertainment Site
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8/3/2007
The University of Southern California has launched TrojanTV All-Access, a multimedia website featuring a variety of Trojan Athletics content ranging from live broadcasts of games, video archives or previous games, a talk show, and other original programs for Trojan fans across the 'Net.
- Penn State Launches Cable Television Network
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7/31/2007
Penn State University Wednesday launched Penn State On Demand, a collaboration with cable provider Comcast to provide its 2.4 million Pennsylvania customers high speed access to hundreds of hours of programming produced by the university.
- Aviation University Launches Worldwide Virtual Classroom
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7/27/2007
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Daytona Beach, FL) has debuted EagleVision, a Web-enabled, collaborative virtual classroom designed for aviation and aeronautical education.
- New DSpace Foundation Names Executive Director
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7/25/2007
Michele Kimpton will lead the new DSpace Foundation, formed by MIT and HP, as its executive director.
- Ball State Rolls Out HD in Digital Media Project
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7/24/2007
A years-long project at Ball State University to digitize a huge range of content is being expanded to include high-definition TV in its offerings.
- Temple U Solves Content Management Challenge
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7/11/2007
With roughly half a million pages of content on more than 500 well used Web sites, Temple University faced a huge challenge in getting content management under control.
- Review and Benchmarks: Apple 13-Inch MacBook
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7/9/2007
After a little more than a year, Apple's entry-level MacBook line of notebook computers is now in its third generation. Sporting upgrades to wireless networking, CPU performance, and storage capacity....
- Adobe Ships CS3 Master Collection, Production Premium Suite
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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.
- Building for Student Success
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6/13/2007
San Jose State University AVP Mary Jo Gorney-Moreno comments on the process of creating a high-tech student success center on campus.
- It Does Compute--All Across Campus
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6/13/2007
Mathematica 6.0, the most comprehensive upgrade to Wolfram Research Inc.'s (www.wolfram.com) famous computational software in the company's 20-year history, has arrived on the University of Mississippi campus.
- Internet2, Student Media Group, Produce Digital Film Fest
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6/12/2007
Internet2, the higher education research consortium, is working with a student-managed television network to produce a film festival that will showcase films solely on the Internet.
- UCLA Disputes Position on Congressional Piracy List
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6/4/2007
Administrators from the University of California at Los Angeles are disputing the validity of data used by two congressional committees to identify universities that allowed the most illegal downloading of movie and music content on their campuses.
- Apple Rolls Out iTunes U
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5/30/2007
Apple has launched a new iTunes feature called iTunes U, a new department in the iTunes Store that provides free education resources from American colleges and universities. The idea is to share resources from these campuses, such as lectures and research, free of charge.
- Review: Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium
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5/30/2007
Some of the most common applications IT professionals have to administer (besides the usual, ubiquitous office and productivity tools) are to be found in the Adobe's design software portfolio--Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, and InDesign, among others.
- Medill To Offer J-School Scholarships to Comp-Sci Grads
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5/29/2007
The Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University is making scholarships available to those with undergraduate degrees in computer science, as well as programmers and Web developers, under a grant that recognizes that the Web has become an essential media technology.
- Review: Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium
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5/29/2007
It's the moment that a whole bunch of Web designers and producers (especially those with Intel Macs) have been waiting many a moon for: Adobe's CS3 Design and Web suites are finally shipping.
- U Washington Deploys IP-Based 'Coursecasting'
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5/23/2007
The University of Washington, in an effort to improve access to classroom materials for students, has deployed IP-based audio encoding devices throughout 24 classrooms, standardizing on Barix Instreamers.
