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Broadband Over Power Lines (BPL)
Some consider BPL a great, low-cost way to get Internet access
out to rural areas. Others decry the interference on radio
frequency spectrums during tests and early applications.
Will we be shaking our finger at power lines and saying "Bad
Power Lines" (BPL)?
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Developing a Quantum Computer
Einstein despised what he called "spooky entanglement," but
a recent breakthrough demonstrated for the first time, such
entanglement between a trapped ion and an optical photon.
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Web-Enabled Faculty Database for Management and Accreditation
The AACSB, Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of
Business, chose the University of Tennessee to pilot new
AACSB accreditation standards. Administrators at UT, went to
outsourcing to build SEDONA - "a self-service, Web-enabled
database application for collecting, managing, evaluating,
and reporting faculty teaching, research, and service activities."
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Virtual Universities: Real Possibilities
This reports the outcomes learned from a study by the State Higher Education
Executive Officers (SHEEO) and the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications
(WCET) of virtual colleges and universities (loosely defined). Its findings
are presented in six categories. This is definitely an article to read for anyone
who wants to think they're on top of this area.
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IUPUI Hit Hard By Trojan Horse
The Trojan horse, Backdoor.Anyserv.B, was inserted into the network by a
hacker, and on top of that, a problem with the core network on the
Indians University-Bloomington campus caused serious outages for users
at all eight IU campuses.
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Ohio U. to Change the Use of Social Security Numbers
The university expects to stop 95 percent of its use of student
social security numbers by the fall of 2005, with an
implementation plan that substitutes the students' email
address for online transactions and a pin number for other
transactions.
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Why Has IT Not Paid Off As We Had Hoped (Yet)
A long essay by the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences and its chief technology office at the University of
Virginia about why, from the days of punch cards and daisy
wheel printers to our current state in 2004, the promise of
IT implementation in higher education has not quite come
through . . . yet.
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Blaster Worm Hero Honored at U. of Colorado-Boulder
Davis Chen, an undergraduate, is "Student Employee of the
Year" for being the man who saved CU-Boulder from the more
serious financial impact felt by many other institutions from
the "Blaster" work as students returned to school in the
fall of 2003.
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UCLA Implements File-Sharing Quarantine in the Residence Halls
The 7,500 students (and some faculty and staff) who live in
UCLA residence halls now face implementation of the quarantine
approach. When the school is notified of a file sharing
violation, the user's computer becomes unable to connect to
other ResNet machines and to servers outside the UCLA campus,
until the situation is resolved.
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U. Texas at San Antonio to Implement Laptop Solution
The school is going to go big on technology-assisted learning. A set of overlapping
initiatives, including an extensive wireless network and the beginning of talks
to manufacturers about getting good prices and support on laptops, have begun.
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