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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  • student reading a book with a brain, a protective hand, a computer monitor showing education icons, gears, and leaves

    4 Steps to Responsible AI Implementation

    Researchers at the University of Kansas Center for Innovation, Design & Digital Learning (CIDDL) have published a new framework for the responsible implementation of artificial intelligence at all levels of education.

  • glowing digital brain interacts with an open book, with stacks of books beside it

    Federal Court Rules AI Training with Copyrighted Books Fair Use

    A federal judge ruled this week that artificial intelligence company Anthropic did not violate copyright law when it used copyrighted books to train its Claude chatbot without author consent, but ordered the company to face trial on allegations it used pirated versions of the books.

  • server racks, a human head with a microchip, data pipes, cloud storage, and analytical symbols

    OpenAI, Oracle Expand AI Infrastructure Partnership

    OpenAI and Oracle have announced they will develop an additional 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity, expanding their artificial intelligence infrastructure partnership as part of the Stargate Project, a joint venture among OpenAI, Oracle, and Japan's SoftBank Group that aims to deploy 10 gigawatts of computing capacity over four years.

  • laptop displaying a phishing email icon inside a browser window on the screen

    Phishing Campaign Targets ED Grant Portal

    Threat researchers at cybersecurity company BforeAI have identified a phishing campaign spoofing the U.S. Department of Education's G5 grant management portal.