Internet/Intranet
- USC Prof: Internet Will Soon be Overwhelmed by Video
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9/4/2007
A University of California, San Diego professor has warned that a massive expansion of Internet capacity is required in the United States to keep the economy from slowing down and possibly stalling.
- Harvard Team Rehabs P2P as eCommerce Platform
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9/4/2007
A team of Harvard computer scientists is experimenting with using peer to peer file sharing as a model for exchanging Internet bandwidth between individual users. The researchers said they believe that P2P networking, which has become notorious for helping foster illegal downloading, can be used as a safe and legal model for electronic commerce.
- Berkeley Warns Freshman To 'Learn Before You Burn'
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8/28/2007
University of California, Berkeley has mounted a publicity campaign to warn its incoming freshman class of the consequences of downloading copyrighted music. The message of the campaign is "Learn Before You Burn" and is directed at the 95 percent of incoming freshman who own computers and may have not been aware that most music is not, in fact, free.
- 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of Pennsylvania Library system, is embarking on a project to digitize its special collections, including rare books and historical documents.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.
- UP Deploys Secure File Transfer for Faculty, Students
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8/16/2007
The University of Portland has rolled out South River technologies' GroupDrive to let its 3,200 students and faculty securely share and collaborate on files across the 'Net.
- Columbia Southern U Launches Social Networking for Alumni
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8/15/2007
Columbia Southern University has launched a new online service for its alumni. Dubbed "CSU Click," the service provides social networking functionality for the school's graduates at no charge.
- Research: College Students Use Internet for Education ... Huh
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8/15/2007
Whatever else your students are doing on the Internet, they are using it for educational purposes as well. According to a study released last week by Houghton Mifflin, more than half of college students use the Internet "to keep up with course work and prepare for exams."
- 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.
- Yahoo! To Open Illinois Office To Tap Engineering Talent
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8/14/2007
Yahoo! will open an office in University of Illinois's home town of Urbana-Champaign. The office, which will pursue a cross-section of the Web giant's operations and business interests, will employ about 100 engineers, according to Ken Timmons, vice president of operations for Yahoo!
- Internship Lets CS Students Pitch Proposals to VC Firm
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8/14/2007
Three teams of University of Illinois computer science students are spending the summer trying to launch their own companies with the help of an internship that requires them to pitch their own software or web based services to potential investors.
- Carleton Student Awarded Best Paper on 'Usable Security'
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8/10/2007
Sonia Chiasson, a Ph.D. student in computer science at the Human Oriented Technology Lab (HotLab) at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, was awarded the prize for best paper at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) at CMU.
- European Union Sponsors Global Malware Study
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8/10/2007
The European Union has awarded a group of academic and commercial researchers a $7.1 million grant to analyze data on global malware activity and trends, according to Stephano Zanero, a researcher at the Italian university Politecno de Milano, who is helping lead the three-year project.
- The Calm Before the Calm?
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8/9/2007
August is a time of calm for most in the education community. But our students are out there interfacing with the world and getting ready to bring back all sorts of things with them to our campuses when they arrive in the fall. Are we ready?
- U Denver Hosts Student Peace Talks via HD Link
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8/9/2007
The University of Denver, in partnership with RJ Macklin and Associates, today will host "peace talks" between students in Israel and Iraq. The twist: The talks will be conducted via high-definition videoconferencing. The technology is being supplied by LifeSize, a developer of HD communications tools.
- Inside Indiana U's Move to ChaCha
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8/8/2007
Indiana University's alliance with search firm ChaCha, announced last week, may portend how universities, librarians, and Internet search engines will work together in the future.
- Google Offers Researchers a 'Drink from the Fire Hose'
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8/7/2007
Google Inc. announced it would make two new services available to the higher education research community--access to Web search and machine translations--as part of a new University Research Programs effort. The search firm made the announcement at its higher ed Faculty Summit held July 26 to 27 in Mountain View, CA.
- IU & ChaCha: Reports of Google's Demise Greatly Exaggerated
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8/6/2007
Earlier we reported that Indiana University has partnered with Internet search service ChaCha, also based in Indiana, to create an alliance for developing research tools and services via the Web. Since then, we've had a chance to speak with Brad Wheeler, vice president for information technology at IU, to provide some clarification on the move, including information that contradicts other reports out there.
- Top-Tier Tech Degree Is Not Business Silver Bullet
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8/6/2007
A degree from a top-tier university does not confer a greater probability of success in high-tech entrepreneurship than a degree from a mid-range university, according to a recent study of immigrants who took degrees in the United States and went on to found high tech firms.
- HU Leverages CRM To Smooth Interactions with Recruits, Students
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8/2/2007
Virginia's Hampton University (HU) will deploy technology from higher education customer relationship management (CRM) vendor Intelliworks to streamline communications with prospective and current students.
- Putting a Web-Enabled Database To Work at Syracuse University
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8/2/2007
As Director of the Student Records Office for the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse, I oversee the processing of a vast mass of student data--who's who, who's where, and who's taking what course from whom.
- Online U Research: Popularity of Online Universities Rising
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7/31/2007
Half of a group of prospective college students who said they would be interested in taking an online course in the next 12 months also said they would like to enroll in a completely online degree program, according to a recent survey conducted by the American InterContinental University Online.
- 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.
- Polycom Intros HD Conferencing System
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7/26/2007
Communications technology developer Polycom this week introduced its forthcoming HDX 4000, a videoconferencing and collaboration system that includes high-definition capabilities. It's expected to ship in the fourth quarter.
- Senate Passes HEA Reauthorization, Sans File Sharing Amendment
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7/24/2007
The United States Senate today voted in favor of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (SB 1642) 95 to 0 without the previously reported amendment that would have held universities accountable for illegal file sharing on their networks.
- 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.
