News Update 07-01-2003
Today's Issue Sponsored By:
* Education Technology Companies to Exhibit at Syllabus2003
http://www.syllabus.com/summer2003
* Syllabus2003 Early Bird Deadline Extended to July 8
http://info.101com.com/default.asp?id=1814
* Call for Papers Extended to July 7! Syllabus fall2003 in Boston
http://info.101com.com/default.asp?id=1954
SPONSOR: Education Technology Companies to Exhibit at Syllabus2003
Syllabus2003 celebrates its 10th annual summer conference July 27-31 in San
Jose, Calif., and on the campus of Stanford University. In addition to cutting-edge
keynotes, breakout sessions, and panel discussions, attendees will see the latest
products for campus technology during designated exhibit hall hours. Some of
the companies attending include: MatchWare, developer of software products that
enable all levels of users to create cutting-edge multimedia content; The College
Board, whose Accuplacer program delivers comprehensive assessment, placement
and guidance tools over the Internet; Xythos, developer of Internet file management
software for secure file access and sharing; Dynamic Knowledge Transfer, provider
of a suite of products to facilitate visual communication between teachers and
students in classrooms and distance learning environments; and Motion Computing,
producer of Motion TabletePCs designed into a clipboard-size unit weighing less
than three pounds. To view the entire exhibitor list, as well as to register
for Syllabus2003, go to www.syllabus.com/summer2003/hall.asp.
California to Build Research and Education UberNetwork
The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) said
it would create the first multi-tiered, statewide 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GigE)
platform in the nation dedicated to serve all research and education institutions.
The California Research and Education Network (CalREN) will serve experimental
and network researchers as well as students, faculty, researchers, and staff
at all K-20 and research institutions throughout California. "From a research
and development standpoint, having access to multiple 10 Gigabit Ethernet waves
creates new opportunities for advanced experiments linking massive computations,
large datasets, and collaborative environments to create LambdaGrids," said
Larry Smarr, director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information
Technology. Completion of the Cisco-based network is expected this fall.
SPONSOR: Register Now to Save Up to $200!
This summer's 10th annual Syllabus Conference offers five days of not-
to-be-missed keynotes, general sessions, breakouts, and more for
education technology professionals. Join us July 27-31 at the San Jose
Marriott and enjoy five new program tracks on topics of strategic
importance. Plus, a special day on the Stanford University campus will
allow you to experience the latest technology innovations first hand.
All this, including networking and exhibits, in Syllabus' traditional
collegial atmosphere. Register today and take advantage of up to $200
off in Early Bird discounts.
For details and to register go to: http://info.101com.com/default.asp?=1814
Universities to Collaborate on Product Development Project
Several engineering universities will participate in a Product
Lifecycle Management (PLM) research project that will be launched this
fall by the Georgia Institute of Technology. Universities that have
already signed on to participate include Blekinge Institute of
Technology in Sweden, Des Moines Area Community College, Monr'e County
Community College, Stevens Institute of Technology, University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Maryland. The schools
will partner with an as-yet unnamed manufacturer to provide mechanical
engineering students with a complete understanding of PLM, which
involves managing products throughout their entire life cycle. Teams of
students will use PTC Inc.'s Windchill ProjectLink, an enterprise
collaboration platform, to help them work together from remote
locations on a large design project. Georgia Tech Professor Robert
Fulton said the project is one of the "first-ever uses of enterprise
collaboration technology in an academic setting."
Purdue G'es Grid in Linking 2,300 Idle Computers
Purdue University is in the process of linking 2,300 computers to
create a computational grid to perform research that previously was
performed on supercomputers. The work is being done by United Devices,
which specializes in grid computing. The grid computer will take
advantage of computers throughout the university, which sit idle at
least some of the time. "Our instructional labs close at 1:00 a.m. and
reopen at 7:00 a.m. During those six hours, 2,300 machines sat idle,"
said David Moffett, associate vice president of research computing
services at Purdue. "The compute cycles existed, but no one was using
them in the dark of night. With United Devices, we were able to create
a grid to use those cycles, maintain throughput, and clear our
supercomputers for tasks that they're much more qualified to perform."
United Devices also operates the world's largest Grid for grand-scale research
that consists of more than two million devices in over 220 countries. For more
information on secure grid solutions, visit: www.ud.com;
to volunteer your idle compute power, visit: www.grid.org.
MIT Info Theorist, Ethernet Inventor, to Share Marconi Award
Information theorist Robert Gallager, a Massachusetts Institute of
Technology professor, and Robert Metcalfe, who developed the Ethernet
computer networking standard, will share this year's International
Marconi Fellowship. With its motto, "Communications for Goodness Sake,"
the Marconi Fellowship Foundation at Columbia University is dedicated
to recognizing people whose application of communications technology
has had a positive and lasting impact on human progress. The award
comes with a $100,000 honorarium to be shared by the two honorees.
For more information, visit: www.marconifoundation.org
SPONSOR: Syllabus fall2003
Call for Papers Extended to July 7! Syllabus fall2003 in Boston
http://info.101com.com/default.asp?id=1954