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3/23/2007
Until today, the promise of converged campuswide communications has been just that--a promise. But now, at institutions such as Dartmouth College, converged communications over secure, high-performance mobility networks has arrived.
3/22/2007
NEC Corp. has debuted a new model in its NP series of DLP-based projectors: the NP4000. The new model is an installation and large-venue projector targeted toward government, higher education and corporate applications. It made its first public appearance at the NSCA Expo 2007 in Orlando, FL.
3/22/2007
Sony will expand its lineup of 4k projectors this summer with the launch of its new SRX-R210 cinema projector, which will be added to the company's SRXD family of high-end projection systems for theaters.
3/22/2007
The University of Kentucky's Center for Computational Sciences has employed a Grid Backbone from Billerica, MA-based Voltaire to accelerate a new IBM supercomputer that will be used for scientific research in the areas of physics, chemistry, engineering, and computational pharmacy.
3/22/2007
Relational Technology Solutions, a technology solution provider, announced its partnership with Shaw University to help provide hardware and IT consulting for Shaw's community service project to improve technology at community service center located in Raleigh, NC. Relational is one of the four companies partnering with Shaw University in its "Bridging Global Initiatives & Community Beyond the Gates" program. Avaya, Extreme Networks, and Citrix have also partnered with Shaw for the program.
3/22/2007
Vemics, a provider of real-time learning technology, has launched its first project with newly acquired company e-Learning Desktop at Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia. The company, e-Learning Desktop, will be offering an online Russian language curriculum scheduled to begin in September.
3/22/2007
National Instruments recently announced the availability of NI LabVIEW, a version of LabVIEW graphical programming environment for The Infinity Project. The LabVIEW program is designed to aid The Infinity Project in providing curricula for high school and early college engineering education.
3/21/2007
As part of its Accessible Technology Initiative, the California State University (CSU) system will implement software from Nashua, NH-based HiSoftware to monitor the accessibility of its websites, Web content and Web applications for people with disabilities.
3/21/2007
Santa Clara University in California next week will host a symposium on open-source software. Titled "Virtues and Vices of Open Source Software," the symposium will focus on issues surrounding commercial and open-source software development.
3/21/2007
Enterprise solutions provider Novell has joined the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC), the company announced this week. OCWC is an initiative among the higher education community to promote the development and implementation of open-source education materials.
3/21/2007
Global Technologies Group has released SecureDisc Standalone, a utility for encrypting the contents of CD and DVD media.
3/20/2007
E-learning technology provider Elluminate has rolled out the final release of its new, free Web conferencing system, vRoom. The company has also announced version 2.0 of its Blackboard Building Block extension for Elluminate Live!, a distance learning tool.
3/20/2007
A team of Stanford researchers is mulling what the Internet should look like if it could be rebuilt from scratch.
3/20/2007
Research teams at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Central Florida in Orlando are working to build three-dimensional life-sized animated representations of historical figures and other knowledge avatars capable of conversing with students or interviewing service clients.
3/20/2007
Three students from Poland's Warsaw University won the 31st-annual International Collegiate Programming Contest, dubbed the Olympics of computer programming. The Polish team vanquished 6,099 teams from 1,756 universities in 82 countries on six continents that began with regional contests last fall.
3/20/2007
The Stevens Institute of Technology will open the School of Systems and Enterprises to study and educate students in the advanced information technology systems it said are increasingly driving the global economy.
3/20/2007
Three college and three high school teams remain as finalists in a national contest to pick the best three-dimensional printing design. The competition, sponsored by computer-aided design firm Dimension 3D Printing Group, required the contestants to identify an existing product or piece of art or architecture and redesign it, while improving the original with new functionality or qualities.
3/20/2007
The Learning Technologies Centre at the University of Manitoba has created a wiki of "Net Technologies for Teaching and Learning."
3/20/2007
Top researchers at Microsoft Corp. are lamenting that the number of students pursuing computer science is on the decline just as the demand for solutions to big computing challenges is rising, according to a report in Electronic Engineering Times.
3/20/2007
At a meeting to discuss the findings of a university task force on teaching and career development, Harvard professors called student apathy for learning--expressed by classroom Web surfing and lack of energy--an "elephant in the room" contributing to a decline in the quality of classroom and general education at the university.
3/19/2007
Universities in Kenya and various education institutions in Rwanda will start using Google Apps thanks to a partnership announced this week between Google and the Rwandan Ministry of Infrastructure and the Kenya Education Network (KENET).
3/19/2007
Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that its Playstation 3 (PS3) entertainment systems will soon support Stanford University’s Folding@home project, an ambitious distributed computing undertaking designed to help understand protein folding, misfolding and related diseases.
3/19/2007
Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, has expanded use of Mirage Networks' Endpoint Control system across its campus and deployed the company's Mirage Management Server for security.
3/19/2007
SchoolSpring has released a major update to its Web-based recruiting tool for K-12 and higher ed institutions. The new version adds evaluation tools and gains an improved user interface, among other upgrades.
3/16/2007
The MGH Institute of Health Professions has signed on to use online courseware from Phase Forward for the institute's graduate program in clinical investigation. MGH offers both a master of science degree and a certificate of advanced study in clinical investigation.
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