News 09-24-2002
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MBA Programs Get 'Incomplete' in Security
Professional services firm Ernst & Young called on the nation's business schools
to beef up their curriculums to include studies in digital security risk management.
An informal analysis by the firm of the curriculums of the nation's top 30 business
schools noted that while schools such as Stanford and Carnegie Mellon offered
in-depth computer security courses, the programs often were not part of general
business school studies. And few classes appeared to address cyber security
issues directly. "Training and educating just the IT manager is like preparing
for a war by arming the generals with howitzers and giving the front line soldiers
-- the rest of the work force -- pop guns," said Jose Granado, who leads E&Y's
Attack & Penetration Advanced Security Center. "Managing cyber security needs
to be a core business discipline for an entire enterprise and MBA programs are
a great place to provide that training."
Featured Session on Wireless Networking and Trends at Syllabus fall2002
With the deployment of wireless networking, students and faculty alike are
beginning to enjoy the freedom of roaming unfettered through campus with their
notebook and handheld computers. Will wireless networking change teaching and
course administration? What are the security issues? A panel discussion led
by Judith Boettcher, CREN, will present first-hand observations and studies
of wireless usage on campus at Syllabus fall2002. This education technology
conference, held Nov. 3-5 at the Boston Marriott Newton Hotel, includes keynote
speakers, breakout sessions, a vendor fair and an opportunity to network with
colleagues focused on technology in higher education.
For information and to register, go to http://www.syllabus.com/fall2002
Stanford Online Press Gets 'Clustering' Software
Stanford's HighWire Press, an online publisher of scientific and medical publications
for researchers and institutions, has licensed "clustering" software that will
allow it to organize its content into easy-to-navigate clusters for end-users.
HighWire licensed the Clustering Engine and Enterprise Publisher from Vivisimo,
Inc. to organize search results and publish larger document subsets on its master
site. HighWire will offer the products to its own publishing customers for use
on their journal websites. "HighWire Press now has 13 million online articles,
so researchers need tools to reduce, refine, and tunnel into search results,"
said John Sack, director of HighWire. The new software, he added, "will help
liberate readers from the need to make overly specific queries. Instead, they
can recognize interesting topic clusters and drill down from there, in the 'I
know it when I see it' style."
For more information, visit: http://highwire.stanford.edu.
Services: ETS Tech Enhances Online Assessment Tool
Educational Testing Service subsidiary ETS Technologies, Inc., unveiled an
upgraded version of its Criterion Online Writing Evaluation tool, a web-based
service that evaluates students' writing skills and provides immed iate score
reporting and diagnostic feedback. The company said the new release g'es beyond
offering immediate scoring to providing feedback that annotates a student's
writing with specific suggestions for improvement. Among the software's features
are: heuristic-based diagnostic feedback that helps writers focus on their errors
as they revise their essays, and a work-in-progress revision capability that
allows them to make revisions as they review each category of feedback. Instructors
can also insert their own comments about an essay both within the essay and
in a message board. All of the student's writing, scores, feedback, and comments
are saved to a secure virtual portfolio that both the instructor and student
can access
eCollege Upgrades Synchronous Teaching Tool
Course management system provider eCollege said it improved its ClassLive Premium
offering, a synchronous tool suite that provides real-time instructor-student
sessions and record them for future use. The tool set integrates live audio/visual
functionality typically found in collaboration software directly into the eCollege
course management system. The new suite includes 'One-Way Broadcast Audio,'
allowing an instructor's voice to be transferred over the Internet for office
hours, online tutoring or live lectures with PowerPoint slides. 'Two-Way Audio'
enables students and instructors to speak to each other and in groups without
additional conference call technology. 'Synchronized Archives' enables ClassLive
sessions to be played back as a streaming video.
MTV Acquires College Television Network
MTV Networks last week purchased the assets of the College Television Network
from CTN Media Group, Inc. New York-based CTN is the largest television network
exclusively dedicated to serving college students, reaching 8.2 million students
each week via a satellite feed to televisions located in public spaces on the
largest college campuses, as well as through dorm room cable systems on about
150 campuses. As part of MTV, CTN will continue to offer content geared exclusively
towards college-age students (18-24) through a blend of music, news, sports
and college-specific programming. CTN said it would continue to create new music
and other college-themed events and bring them to college students across the
U.S. MTV said the acquisition gives it a means of "super-serving the college
market."
Smiley Emoticon Celebrates 20th Birthday
The smiley emoticon turned 20 last week. The first smiley was created by Dr.
Scott Fahlman -- then a computer science research professor at Carnegie-Mellon
University, and now an IBM researcher -- to prevent the frequent misunderstandings
that occurred when one person's joke or sarcasm posted to a local electronic
bulletin board was unwittingly taken seriously by others. Widely distributed
over the primitive computer networks of the day, the smiley has spawned an entire
vocabulary of smiles, retorts and graphic elements constructed from a line of
keyboard characters. Fahlman's colleagues at CMU recently unearthed the original
email and discussion from Sept. 19, 1982, which can be viewed along with other
"smiley lore" via links at his website.
For more information, visit: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/
