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9/13/2007

Medical and pharmaceutical programs at three colleges have recently implemented 1:1 tablet PC initiatives for students and faculty through IT solutions provider CDW Government, which provided hardware, software, and consulting for the three deployments.

NI Powers Berkeley Embedded Systems Laboratory for EECS

9/11/2007

National Instruments has partnered with University of California, Berkeley's College of Engineering to launch the NI Embedded Systems Laboratory on the UC Berkeley campus. The lab will be used for teaching and research in the area of graphical system design for all electrical engineering and computer sciences graduate students and upper division undergraduates, as well as for researchers from other departments.

NTU, Rice To Tackle Computer Chip Power Problems

9/11/2007

Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Houston-based Rice University said they would form a research organization dedicated to resolving the power, heat, and current leakage issues that affect computer chips.

USC Prof: Internet Will Soon be Overwhelmed by Video

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.

One More Year, and 'The Technology is [Still] the Easy Part!'

8/30/2007

One of the more challenging parts of working within a higher education institution, especially (but not only) in the information technology arena, is coping with what the students "bring with them" to campus.

Virginia Tech Reports on IT Performance During Shootings

8/28/2007

An internal review of Virginia Tech's information and communications infrastructure in the wake of the April shootings found that the campus telecommunication systems were "dramatically stressed during the initial response period but performed adequately," according to a report in The Roanoke Times.

UMBC Supercomputing Center Eyes Socio-Econ Problems

8/27/2007

The University of Maryland-Baltimore County and IBM said they would collaborate to build a facility dedicated to research on aerospace, defense, financial services, medical imaging, and weather/climate change prediction.

Marshall U Team Works on Computer Vision Navigation

8/13/2007

Three Marshall University computer science students and faculty are working on a project to build a sensor suite for the United States Navy to be used on autonomous marine vehicles.

U Virginia To Host Supercomputing 'Bootcamp' for Faculty

8/8/2007

The University of Virginia is doing its part to get the word out that computational science--the use of massive parallel processors and supercomputers to explore nature's knottiest complexities--is the key to economic competitiveness for the United States.

Open Source Excellence at UC Santa Cruz

8/8/2007

Sun Microsystems has named the University of California, Santa Cruz as its first OpenSPARC Center of Excellence.

Apple Upgrades iMac Line

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.

VMware Releases Fusion for Mac

8/7/2007

VMware has released Fusion for Mac OS X. The software, based on VMware's desktop virtualization technology, allows Apple's Intel-based systems to run software written for multiple OSes simultaneously.

NACUBO Names Baylor for Innovation Award

8/2/2007

The National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) in Washington, DC awarded Baylor University (Waco, TX) a 2007 Innovation Award for resource enhancement for the school's for its efforts to cut its power costs.

Polycom Intros HD Conferencing System

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.

Bull Durham: Duke WiFi Outage Leads to iPhone Outrage

7/23/2007

The media's search for iPhone flaws maintained its pace last week when Duke University's wireless local area network (WLAN) jammed for 10 to 15 minutes, apparently the result of newly commissioned iPhones inundating the university's Cisco wireless network servers.

CMU Takes RoboCup 2007 on Penalties

7/17/2007

In a pair of matches whose excitement level had to be measured in degrees Kelvin, Carnegie Mellon University last week took home gold and bronze from the 2007 RoboCup competition in Atlanta. RoboCup, sponsored by the RoboCup Federation, is a research initiative that pits teams of robots against one another in league-based soccer matches. CMU took first and third place in the Small-Size Robot League and the Four-Legged Robot League, respectively. Both were won on penalty kicks.

Arrive Launches Campus Manager

7/12/2007

Arrive Corp., an ICT/AV technology provider that recently launched in North America, has debuted two facilities management tools targeted toward higher education: Campus Manager and Easy Conference.

Classroom Support at UNCC Goes Both Ways

7/5/2007

A simple two-way digital intercom system installed in classrooms at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has greatly reduced the support department's response time. And although it hasn't been used for an emergency yet, the intercom system can also serve to instantly broadcast a single message to all or some classrooms at once.

Technology for the Physical Plant: Building Smarts

7/5/2007

Let's face it: Most people don’t need Al Gore to convince them that the Earth’s environment has been changing significantly in the last few years. Sure, the former vice president and presidential candidate educated everyone with his 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, but with Hurricane Katrina, rising temperatures, and shrinking snows atop Kilimanjaro, evidence of something climatically amiss is all around us. Some call these weird atmospheric events “global warming,” others a natural “Little Ice Age” cycle; but whatever you call it, the evidence of change is irrefutable. Compounding the situation, energy costs are higher than ever before. In some states, particularly those in the northeastern US, energy costs have doubled in the last three or four years. Does this spell disaster for institutions of higher education? Maybe not: Many colleges and universities are doing their part to react to these challenges without breaking the bank.

UMD Researchers Build Single-Chip Supercomputer

7/3/2007

University of Maryland researchers have developed a new technology they describe as a "single-chip supercomputer prototype," which would be capable of speeds 100 times faster than current desktops. It is based on parallel processing on a single chip.

Student Ambassadors for Open Source

6/29/2007

A conversation with Dinesh Bahal about the Campus Ambassador Program at Sun Microsystems.

U Missouri Expands E-Mail Infrastructure

6/14/2007

University of Missouri recently revamped its Microsoft Exchange messaging environment with the help of EMC Corporation's products and services. According to EMC, the IT department at the university has reworked its infrastructure, allowing for a 500 percent increase in employees' mailbox quotas and 100 percent increase in students' mailbox quotas.

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