News Update :: Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Correction: In last week’s News Update, we incorrectly stated that Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) was located in Pittsburgh. RPI is, in fact, located in Troy, NY. We regret this error.

News

Project Views Impact of Globalization on Engineering Education

Universities that are serious about their engineering programs must intensify their internationalization efforts if they want to keep pace with globalization and the growing complexity of worldwide distribution chains. This assertion comes from the initial findings of a study by a group of eight universities and an automotive parts manufacturer...

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Microsoft Names Five Profs “Essential” to Academic Computing

Microsoft Inc. named five more professors to its new-faculty fellowship program. These are people it considers “essential to the future of academic computing.” The five – two women and three men – were chosen from a group of 100 professors from universities throughout North America...

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College Dangles iTunes Downloads as Recruiting Incentive

Saint Joseph College, Connecticut’s only four-year women’s college, is offering targeted high school juniors in the Northeastern U.S. three free iTunes downloads in exchange for registering on the school’s admissions Web site...

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MP3 Players, Cell Phones, I.M. Join Campus Cheating Arsenal

College and university administrators have had to intensify their battle against cheating on campus, which has gotten extremely sophisticated as students enlist the latest electronic gadgets to beat the system, according to a report in the New York Times...

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Blog to Launch for Updates on New College Library Database

The developers of a resource for listing core academic titles deemed essential by college librarians are launching a blog to keep the higher-ed library community up-to-date on the project, as well as to educate users on the talent pool that contributes to developing the database in various subject matter disciplines...

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Contracts, Deals, Awards

UC Irvine, Unisys, Collaborate on Business Process Research

The University of California, Irvine’s computer science school announced an agreement to collaborate on research with Unisys Corp...

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Singapore U., Oracle , Offer Asia Grid Computing Certification

Singapore Management University (SMU) and Oracle Corp. launched a program to certify IT professionals involved in designing, building, and managing enterprise grid infrastructures...

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Campus Technology 2006
in Boston, July 31-August 3, 2006

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    California Governor Signs AI Content Safeguards into Law

    California Governor Gavin Newsom has officially signed off on a series of landmark artificial intelligence bills, signaling the state’s latest efforts to regulate the burgeoning technology, particularly in response to the misuse of sexually explicit deepfakes. The legislation is aimed at mitigating the risks posed by AI-generated content, as concerns grow over the technology's potential to manipulate images, videos, and voices in ways that could cause significant harm.

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    NIST's U.S. AI Safety Institute Announces Research Collaboration with Anthropic and OpenAI

    The U.S. AI Safety Institute, part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has formalized agreements with AI companies Anthropic and OpenAI to collaborate on AI safety research, testing, and evaluation.

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    Report: Use of Game Engines Expands Beyond Gaming

    Game development technology is increasingly being utilized beyond its traditional gaming roots, according to the recently released annual "State of Game Development" report from development and DevOps solutions provider Perforce Software.

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    Cloud Security Alliance: Best Practices for Securing AI Systems

    The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organization whose mission statement is defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, has released a new report offering guidance on securing systems that leverage large language models (LLMs) to address business challenges.