Syllabus News for Tuesday, August 19, 2003
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* U. California Wins $521 Million Judgment Against Microsoft
* For Profit Becomes First to Offer E-Signatures for All Documents
* Singapore's Nanyang Technological U. Unveils Reality Theater
* Northeastern U. to Support Tablets for Fall B-School Students
* Dept. of Ed Signs "Transformative" Outsourcing Deal with IBM
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U. California Wins $521 Million Judgment Against Microsoft
A federal jury in Chicago last week decided that Microsoft
Corp. improperly put technology owned by the University of
California and licensed by Eolas Technologies, Inc., into
its Internet Explorer browser, helping the computer giant
win critical market share. Eolas president Michael Doyle,
a former UC researcher, co-invented technology to
allow interactive applications in Web pages. In 1995, the
patented technology's features began appearing in commercial
Web browser programs; and interactivity has become a hallmark
of the Internet ever since. UC and Eolas claimed Microsoft
infringed on a patent awarded to the researchers for the
Web technology.
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For Profit Becomes First to Offer E-Signatures for All Documents
AIU Online, a for-profit university specializing in adult education,
said it is the first U.S. University or college to offer secure electronic
signature capabilities on all legal documents required for a student to
apply and enroll in an online degree program. The school gained
approval to implement an expanded secured Personal Identification
Numbers (PIN) system in place of ink signatures from its state
authorizing agencies, the Nonpublic Postsecondary Education
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Northeastern U. to Support Tablets for Fall B-School Students
Through one of the first educational relationships of its kind,
Northeastern University and Toshiba's Computer Systems Group will
make available to its incoming business school students Toshiba's
Portege 3500 convertible Tablet PC running Microsoft's Windows XP
Tablet PC Edition. Les Ball, senior executive professor in
Northeastern's College of Business Administration, said, "the
faculty and staff are currently learning about the tablet's
features in order to gear up to teach this to students entering
Northeastern in the fall."
Singapore's Nanyang Technological U. Unveils Reality Theater
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore opened the
NTU Reality Theater, Southeast Asia's first virtual reality center for
higher ed institutions. A joint project between NTU and SGI, the
facility will support collaborative research in biological and
medical science, scientific visualization, virtual engineering,
civil contingency planning, education, and digital media, the
partners said. The Reality Theater will be made available to all
NTU faculties for teaching and research. The theater will provide
seating for up to 91 participants and will be powered by a 16-processor
SGI Onyx 3800 visualization system. Users will be able to engage in
such activities as interactive, real-time engineering and design
review, data analysis, critical training or command-and-control
operations.
For more information visit:
http://www.sgi.com/visualization/onyx/3000/ip/success.html
IBM Announces Business Transformation Outsourcing Agreements With UTC, Avnet, and U.S. Department of Education
IBM has signed a "business transformation" outsourcing agreement
with the U.S. Department of Education. to modernize its procurement,
accounting and financial management systems under a single, integrated
platform called "EDCAPS" (Education Central Automated Processing System).
Under the agreement, IBM will manage software maintenance, enhancements
and technical infrastructure. The agreement covers the department's
financial management systems, which include accounting, budgeting,
procurement, grants management, travel, and payment collection and
processing.
