News Update 07-22-2003
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* Education Technology Companies to Exhibit at Syllabus2003
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Columbia Buys Mega Archive of Digitized 18th Century Texts
Columbia University has purchased the entire collection of Gale's 18th
Century Collections Online, a digital content pool of 150,000 rare
English-language and foreign-language books and papers published in
Great Britain during the 18th century. The Collection is said to
be the single most ambitious digitization project ever undertaken. John
L. Tofanelli, Anglo-American Bibliographer at Columbia's Butler
Library, said, "This will change the way people think about the 18th
Century and how they write about it. It allows scholars and researchers
to delve deeper than ever before into this key period in world
history." Nearly 150,000 rare titles published between 1701 and 1800
are now available online, in a single integrated search environment.
Gale is an information publisher and a unit of the Thompson Corp.
For more information, visit: www.gale.com
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: Computer Comforts, designer and manufacturer
of innovative furniture and products for the electronic classroom; Unicon, provider
of Academus, an enterprise portal solution, with fully integrated course and
content management environments; Polyvision, an international manufacturer and
installer of static, active, and interactive visual communication products for
the education and corporate markets; and TippingPoint Technologies, its suite
of network-based security products protects networks from cyber threats, piracy
and bandwidth abuse.To view the entire exhibitor list, as well as to register
for Syllabus2003, go to http://www.syllabus.com/summer2003/hall.asp.
Utah Developer Plans Smart Community for 6,000 Students
A Utah real estate developer is creating a planned student community
that will provide high-tech housing, services, and lifestyle amenities
for 6,000 students from Brigham Young University and Utah Valley
State College. The master-planned community, dubbed Parkway Crossing,
will include 1,500 residential units, each housing an average of four
students, retail shops, and two 80,000-square-foot commercial buildings.
The initial phase of 170 units is scheduled for mid-August 2003,
according to the developer, Summit Development and Management. The
company has picked telecom firm CeriStar to install a fiber connection
to each unit and interconnect "appliances" within the units. Services
will include voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephone service, up to 15Mbps of Internet
and data services, 300 basic cable channels, 41 premium movie channels,
more than 175 video-on-demand (VoD) movie choices, music channels, and games
on demand.
For more information, visit: www.summitdevelopment.com
Largest Mobile Initiative for a U.S. Medical School
Wayne State University's School of Medicine has begun a mobile
computing project it says is the largest and most comprehensive ever
planned by a U.S. medical school. The school has signed a contract with
Ann Arbor, Mich.-based CampusMobility Inc. to build the network, which will
supply medical students and staff with mobile devices, educational and
healthcare software, and wireless infrastructure. The technology will
enable problem-solving exercises and the collection of patient
encounter information during clinical internships. "The ability to
interact with students in real time is critical in ensuring students
possess the knowledge and skills necessary to begin independent patient
care," said professor Matt Jackson, Ph.D., in the Department of
Immunology and Microbiology.
Teen Girls to Build Web Sites at Women in Technology Camp
Twenty Chicago-area teenage girls who have demonstrated they are
computer literate, have good grades, and who completed an essay, will
attend an AT&T Young Women in Technology Camp to support young women in
their aspirations to pursue careers in technology. At the camp, which
will take place at Loyola University, the students will work in teams
to build interactive Web sites for Chicago-area non-profit
organizations. Female executives and IT professionals from AT&T,
Allstate, Abbott Laboratories, Motorola, Classified Ventures, the
American Bar Endowment, and Chicago Public Schools will serve as mentors
to the young women to share their experiences and ways they overcame
challenges that might cause young women to choose non-technical career
paths.
