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Internet Speed Record Set: 6.26 Gbps Over 11,000 Kilometers
Researchers at CalTech and CERN, who had set the previous
Internet speed record, pursue new such records to illustrate
the top-end capabilities of Internet2. The Internet2 judging
panel said that such work demonstrates potentials for research
and teaching.
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Purdue Unveils Virtual Reality "Cave"
Purdue's Envision Center for Data Perceptualization has a
new "cave," which lets users interact with virtual objects as
though they are real, using special goggles and gloves. One
interesting early use of the room is to fill it with a virtual
audience to help students overcome their fears of public
speaking.
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TCP Flaw--Internet Wide Open to Hackers?
A researcher in Milwaukee discovered last year that he can
routinely trick personal computers and routers into shutting down digital
information transmission by remotely resetting the machines.
He says that terrorists can understand "within five minutes"
how to use the flaw to launch large scale attacks.
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Peer-to-Peer Arms Race
UCLA has joined the University of Florida in implementing an
Automated Copyright Notice System (ACNS), leading critics of
those systems and others to decry a continuous pounding of
user rights and privileges that will just lead universities
and colleges into a costly, technology "arms race." The
software is open-source and royalty-free.
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Search Engine Wars
This five-part series from NPR's Morning Edition covers the
history, development, current status, and future of the search
engine business - and its influence on the Internet.
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How Secure Is Your Backup and Retrieval of Patient Information?
If your institution has a medical school and/or stores patient
or research data, the stringent requirements of HIPAA, the
the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
1996, are something that will soon, or may already be, affecting
your IT life.
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Customs Officials Don't Have Access to SEVIS Data
Despite huge and expensive efforts by colleges and universities
to comply with the requirements of the Student and Exchange
Visitor Information System, the front line of US customs
officials comprehensively d'es not have access to or use the
data.
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Will Colleges Miss the Next Big Thing?
Subtitled: "Technology budget cuts could hurt innovation on campuses, officials
worry," this is a report of a Chronicle/Gartner survey ot top CIOs and it's
worrisome, indeed. Staff are getting the most bang for their buck, but creativity
and innovation is directed at saving money - not necessarily creating better
or new services and products. (Requires paid subscription)
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Oracle, Intel, HP, and Others Drive Adoption of Grid Computing
The Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA) is a consortium formed to develop enterprise
grid solutions and accelerate the deployment of grid computing in enterprises.
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SMART Board Big Hit at Hendrix College
This is a case of higher education following K-12, as the
education department is implementing this hi-tech device to
ensure teachers learn how to use it while getting their
undergraduate degree.
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Are Campus Cards Too Smart for Their Own Good?
Implementation successes and failures on a variety of campuses
show that it's not the technology that fails to work, it's
the lack of appropriate business model and need.
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Entertainment Industry Takes Anti-Piracy Offensive to Campuses
Taking their anti-piracy crusade to the front lines, the music
and film industries are set to launch a new technology that
will enable copyright holders to better police ISPs or
high-volume networks like those on university campuses.
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Stanford's Linux Supercomputers Compromised
Malicious hackers using sophisticated password-sniffing techniques have compromised
multi-user Linux and Solaris computers that run academic supercomputer centers,
according to an advisory issued by the Stanford University's IT Systems and
Services (ITSS) unit.
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