Digital Media
- 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.
- SMU Offers 5-Year Masters in Comp Sci Plus Gaming
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5/22/2007
Southern Methodist University is the latest campus to embrace computer gaming as a degree program.
- A New Dimension in 'Printing'
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5/17/2007
What's a 3D Printer? If you already know, then you are probably like my editor, who wrote to me: "I freaking love those printers. The first one that comes down below $1k, I'm buying. I don't care that I have no use for one."
- MIT Students Wind Up PlayStation 3 Coursework
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5/14/2007
MIT has finished what it claims is the first course devoted to the capabilities of the Cell Broadband Engine, the chip that powers the Sony Playstation 3 entertainment platform.
- Internet Health Channel Signs University Hospital Expertise
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5/8/2007
realhealth.TV, an Internet TV channel dedicated to consumer health education, is signing up university hospitals as sources of health care expertise.
- Full Sail Dishes Out Macs to Creative Students
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5/2/2007
Creative arts college Full Sail Real World Education in Orlando, FL will be handing out Apple MacBook Pro systems to students across six disciplines. The notebooks will be pre-loaded with Apple's pro-level creative software, including the Final Cut Studio and Logic Pro.
- Angel LMS Integrates with Tegrity
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5/2/2007
Angel Learning this week rolled out enhancements to its Angel LMS (learning management system), bringing integration with Tegrity Campus 2.0, a widely used student achievement system.
- Joint Venture To Link 6 Universities Via HD Video
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5/1/2007
Three firms involved in high-definition video networks have christened a project to link six universities with HD video channels to support interactive collaboration and research. The three companies are LifeSize, which makes HD equipment; kynamatrix Research Network, a non-profit focused on science education; and GBH Communications, which does Internet-based teleconferencing.
- Just Ask the Avatar in the Front Row
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5/1/2007
Colleges and universities head into virtual worlds, and student learning and psychology are changed forever.
- NYU Prof Awarded for Noise Algorithm
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4/26/2007
At a ceremony held this week at New York University, Ken Perlin, an NYU professor in the Media Research Laboratory in the department of Computer Science, was awarded $10,000 by visual arts software developer Trapcode for an algorithm he developed called Perlin Noise.
- Autodesk Student Engineering and Design Community Wins CODiE
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4/25/2007
Autodesk Inc. was presented April 17th with the Software & Information Industry Association’s CODiE award for best postsecondary instruction solution, for the company’s Student Engineering and Design Community.
- U Wisconsin Expands Content Management to 7 Campuses
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4/25/2007
The University of Wisconsin recently expanded its licensing agreement with Xythos, developer of content management software, to include seven campuses. The decision was made after initial installation on the university's Madison and Milwaukee campuses.
- UC Berkeley, Texas A&M Multi-User Game Is for the Birds
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4/24/2007
A collaborative online multimedia system developed by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and Texas A&M University puts an unusual assortments of technologies--including the Web, video, photography, and game technology--together in pursuit of an even more unusual quarry: exotic birds.
- Rensselaer To Offer Fall Ph.D. Program in 'Electronic Arts'
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4/24/2007
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will offer a new Ph.D. degree in "electronic arts" this fall, a program designed to explore the use of the latest high tech art tools to explore academic disciplines.
