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8/3/2007
ON THESE 13 PAGES, we proudly profile the
winners of this year’s competition for outstanding
technology innovation on US college and university
campuses. We congratulate the schools, their
project leads, and vendor partners in 13 categories
challenging institutions of higher education around the
country. This year, 338 institutions submitted their
compelling case studies via our online nomination
form. Many of those stories will find their way into
future issues; our sincere thanks to all entrants.
| 2007 Campus Technology Innovators | |
|---|---|
| TECHNOLOGY AREA |
INNOVATOR |
| VIRTUALIZED NETWORKS | Rice University |
| RICH MEDIA | Drexel University |
| NETWORK MANAGEMENT | Harvard Business School |
| PROTECTING PERSONAL DATA | Louisiana State University |
| CELLULAR/MOBILE | Montclair State University |
| PORTALS | Rio Salado College |
| HIGH-TECH LEARNING SPACES | San Jose State University |
| SOCIAL/COMMUNITY NETWORKING | Tufts University |
| PODCASTING | University of Connecticut |
| CAMPUS CARDS | The University of Arizona |
| ONLINE EDUCATION | University of Vermont College of Medicine |
| EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION | West Virginia University at Parkersburg |
| SECURING THE CAMPUS | Drexel University |
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Software frameworks are enjoying enormous popularity these days among a range of developers. It's popularity well earned; frameworks provide powerful tools for building more flexible and less error-prone applications. They generally enhance developer productivity with out-of-the-box functionality. And they can free developers to focus on features instead of common coding tasks.
Utility storage provider 3PAR has announced the release of the 3PAR InServ T400 and T800 Storage Servers. The new hardware is built on the company's third-generation InSpire architecture, featuring the 3PAR Gen3 ASIC with integrated fat-to-thin processing.
City University of New York (CUNY) is partnering up with Intel and Red Hat to launch a new software institute dedicated to open source software. The center, New York City Open Source Solutions Lab, based out of the CUNY Graduate Center, will serve as a test bed for government IT professionals in New York who are working with open source solutions.
Adobe has made its ColdFusion 8 Web development platform free for educators and students. The offer is available for all public and private accredited K-12 schools and colleges and universities.
Trent Batson considers a list of back-to-school resources for Web 2.0.
Campus Technology speaks with wiki expert Stewart Mader, who discusses choosing between commercial and open source wiki products, getting started with a wiki, and why Wikipedia is the single biggest stumbling block to wikis in higher education.