IT Trends :: Thursday, July 6, 2006

  • 07/05/06

Opinion

No One 'G'es' Continuous Partial Attention (CPA)

By Terry Calhoun

It’s truly amazing how archaic air flight is for information age professionals. We still don’t have batteries strong enough to last through a flight. Although I carry a special power supply kit, I have yet to fly on an airplane which has a public supply to tap into. Partly because of that, and partly because they haven’t decided yet how much we’ll pay to be online during flight, today’s long flights are interruption-free vacuums. For the particular one I am on right now – Detroit to San Francisco, change planes for Honolulu – I brought a bunch of work to read and five novels.

The front pages to the second novel, Tom Dorsey’s The Big Bamboo, which I just started, contain a simple quote from Ronald Reagan on an otherwise blank white page: “No one g'es Hollywood – they were that way before they came here. Hollywood just exposed it.” That’s the perfect riposte to July 5’s New York Times column by Thomas L. Friedman, “The Age of Interruption.”...

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IT News

Congress Targets Social-Networking Sites

Following the European Union’s 2005 decision demanding Internet service providers to record and store activity logs, the United States government is pursuing...

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Microsoft's Office 2007 Hits Snag

First Vista, now Office. The release date has been moved from October to...

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Ruling May Save Colleges Millions

As implied by a recent court ruling, higher education institutions will be able to spend less than the federal requirement...

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Windows 98 Users on Their Own

On July 11, approximately 70 million Windows 98 users will be exposed to hackers and crashes...

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Deals, Contracts, Awards

Microsoft Looks to Academia for Talent, Business

A senior editor for the Chronicle of Higher Education said, "Microsoft certainly pays a lot of attention to the education space.”...

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Tablet PCs Required for Virginia Tech Engineers

Virginia Polytechnic Institute began requiring students to own computers back in 1984…

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New Technology

Indiana University Claims Fastest Supercomputer

According to a new list announced at the International Supercomputer Conference...

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Strayer University Launches Pioneering Virtual Commencement Ceremony

One third of Strayer’s students take all of their classes online...

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A Lesson in Finance: Teachers Sell Their Original Work Online

When students buy others’ work online and pass it off as their own in class, it’s called plagiarism...

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Capella University Launches 'Inside Online Education' Podcasts

Capella, an online university, is launching a podcast series that explores the benefits of Internet education through...

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Campus Technology 2006
in Boston, July 31-August 3, 2006

Events Calendar

Featured

  • 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.

  • Abstract geometric shapes including hexagons, circles, and triangles in blue, silver, and white

    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.

  • Two stylized glowing spheres with swirling particles and binary code are connected by light beams in a futuristic, gradient space

    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.