IT Trends :: Thursday, June 1, 2006

  • 06/01/06

Deals, Contracts, Awards

Dell Donates $50 million to UT

Wow. The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation just gave $50 million to the University of Texas, where he created the Dell company out of his dorm room, shortly before dropping out. Projects include a $67 million Dell Computer Science Hall on the main UT campus ($10 million of which comes from this particular recent gift), a new pediatric health research center, and a new computer science facility… (The Daily Texan)

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U of Illinois CIO to Lead Information Technology at Davis

Peter Siegel "reorganized [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's] central computing, educational technologies, classroom technologies, computer labs, data, and voice communications units into an integrated information technologies and educational services unit," this article says. Now he will take his expertise to the University of California Davis, which boasts an annual $32 million budget and employs 275 people in the Informational and Educational Technology department… (HPCwire)

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  • From Fire TV to Signage Stick: University of Utah's Digital Signage Evolution

    Jake Sorensen, who oversees sponsorship and advertising and Student Media in Auxiliary Business Development at the University of Utah, has navigated the digital signage landscape for nearly 15 years. He was managing hundreds of devices on campus that were incompatible with digital signage requirements and needed a solution that was reliable and lowered labor costs. The Amazon Signage Stick, specifically engineered for digital signage applications, gave him the stability and design functionality the University of Utah needed, along with the assurance of long-term support.

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    Google Launches Its Most Advanced AI Model Yet

    Google has introduced Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, a new artificial intelligence model designed to reason through problems before delivering answers, a shift that marks a major leap in AI capability, according to the company.

  • Training the Next Generation of Space Cybersecurity Experts

    CT asked Scott Shackelford, Indiana University professor of law and director of the Ostrom Workshop Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance, about the possible emergence of space cybersecurity as a separate field that would support changing practices and foster future space cybersecurity leaders.

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    New Boston-Based Research Center to Advance Quantum Computing with AI

    NVIDIA is establishing a research hub dedicated to advancing quantum computing through artificial intelligence (AI) and accelerated computing technologies.