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Blackboard Outlasts Rivals, Eyes Stock Sale By End of May
It seems like a very different kind of IPO than the Goggle one.
And it's certainly smaller, with Blackboard expecting to raise
less than $60M. Will that be enough to continue as a major player
in te $2.2B postsecondary enterprise software market?
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MIT Aims for the Bottom Line
MIT's Media Lab's new project is "CELab, or consumer electronics lab,
which will capitalize on the convergence of new technologies and
consumer demand for easy-to-use devices." It's a virtual lab, though,
without a bricks and mortar component and with concomitant low operating
costs.
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How Far D'es MIT's OpenCourseWare Program Reach, One Year Later?
How about "everywhere?" MIT's OCW has reached one-third of its goal, now
having more than 700 MIT courses on the web and aiming at 2,000 by 2008.
One symbol of its reach is that a consortium of Chinese universities are
translating all the courses into Chinese, and putting up 1,000 of their
own courses as well.
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How Much D'es Information Technology Matter?
One year ago, Nicholas G. Carr wrote a Harvard Business Review article
titled "IT D'esn't Matter." He took some instant hits from IT industry
bigwigs, and now he's published a book in response titled "D'es IT
Matter?" D'es it all boil down to not being IT itself, but how you use IT?
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UCSD University Hack - 380,000 Identities
At Risk
An intruder who had been using the extra disk space to store digital
movies, hacked into the UCSD Business and Financial Services Department
servers. Although the IDs and other sensitive data for hundreds of
thousands of staff, alumni, students, and applicants were accessible,
there is no evidence that they were accessed.
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Drexel U. Summer Upgrade to Increase Network Speed
Drexel's current wireless network, consisting of 325 access points, most
of which were installed around 2000, will be replaced this summer by
802.11a access points intended to be up to five times faster. After the
upgrades, an additional 600+ access points will be installed in
additional campus locations.
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U. Texas at Austin Limits Library Computer Usage to Official Users
Due to "persistent unauthorized" abuse, the more than 200 computers
available inside the UTA library, only the handful which are dedicated
to searching the library collection and locating books remain available
only to users with an official university EID.
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Online Student Elections a Success at Columbia College in Chicago
The student government association at Columbia modified a pre-existing
campus software program called OASIS to allow for secret, personalized
balloting, rather than purchasing a pre-formatted balloting package.
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UNC's Two-Year Search for a New CIO Is Over
The new CIO is Daniel Reed, formerly of the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications, who was hired in to UNC last year in a
faculty position. He will be CIO and vice chancellor for information
technology as well as holding down a $3 million Chancellor's Eminent
Professorship.
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Budget Cuts at Cal State Stanislaus Affects
IT Staffing
Brian St. Denis, a network security analyst in the Office of Information Technology
position has just gone from full-time to part-time. He's not alone.
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A Hard Eye on IT Purchases
Warren Arbogast g'es onto campuses and finds out where IT is wasting
money. He claims that he can spend a couple of days on any campus and
find a way to save more than $100k. But he's not big on laying off staff.
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