News Update :: Tuesday, July 18, 2006

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Georgia Tech, Bryn Mawr, Microsoft Form Institute for Personal Robots in Education

An eclectic partnership of Georgia Tech’s College of Computing, Bryn Mawr College, and Microsoft Corp. has been formed to open the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE)...

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UC Santa Cruz Introduces Major in Computer Game Design

The University of California at Santa Cruz announced last week it will offer a new major in computer game design, which would be the first in the UC system...

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MIT’s Freshman EE-CS Majors Down by Half Over Five Years

The percentage of freshmen declaring a major in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT is now roughly half of what it was five years ago...

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NC State, SAS Launch Graduate Program in Data Analytics

North Carolina State University chancellor James Oblinger and Jim Goodnight, chief executive offer of business intelligence software vendor SAS, last week announced a joint project to develop...

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U Maryland to Run Unified Teaching, Learning System

The University of Maryland said it will launch its first single, campus-wide set of integrated applications for teaching, learning, and knowledge sharing...

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Contracts, Deals, Awards

Michigan State to Manage Non-Credit Programs with CMS

Michigan State University has licensed Jenzabar's Non-Traditional System (NTS) to help manage...

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Tokyo Institute Deal Weds Logical and Physical ID Manager

The Tokyo Institute of Technology acquired a number of security and authentication solutions in order to expand and simplify its Web-based services offerings and authentication systems...

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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

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    AWS, Microsoft, Google, Others Make DeepSeek-R1 AI Model Available on Their Platforms

    Leading cloud service providers are now making the open source DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model available on their platforms, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

  • university building surrounded by icons for AI, checklists, and data governance

    Improving AI Governance for Stronger University Compliance and Innovation

    AI can generate valuable insights for higher education institutions and it can be used to enhance the teaching process itself. The caveat is that this can only be achieved when universities adopt a strategic and proactive set of data and process management policies for their use of AI.

  • modern college building with circuit and brain motifs

    Anthropic Launches Claude for Education

    Anthropic has announced a version of its Claude AI assistant tailored for higher education institutions. Claude for Education "gives academic institutions secure, reliable AI access for their entire community," the company said, to enable colleges and universities to develop and implement AI-enabled approaches across teaching, learning, and administration.

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    Study: 1 in 10 AI Prompts Could Expose Sensitive Data

    Nearly one in 10 prompts used by business users when interacting with generative artificial intelligence tools may inadvertently disclose sensitive data, according to a study released by data protection startup Harmonic Security Inc.