News Update :: Tuesday, August 15, 2006

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eCollege CEO Thorne Charges Blackboard Patent 'Invalid'

eCollege chairman Oakleigh Thorne charged last week that a recent patent on electronic learning technology awarded to Blackboard Inc. is invalid...

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Computer Scientists Profs Envision New 'Science of the Web'

A group of renowned computer science professors have authored a paper calling for the creation of an interdisciplinary “science of the Web” to focus the academic community on the Web itself as a dominant medium that will link knowledge and transform social values...

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Internet2 Tools Help Manage User Access to Group Research

Internet2, a higher education consortium focused on researching the next generation Internet, has introduced a set of tools to help manage the access and authentication of users involved in network-based research collaboration...

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Intel Project Prepares Higher Ed for Processor Paradigm Shift

Intel Corp., the dominant global computer chip maker, announced a project to prepare university students and faculty computer scientists and software developers for the change from chips with single-processor engines to ones with multiple cores and threads...

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Terrorism Expert: Campuses Have False Sense of Security

Some college campuses – especially small ones – might believe they are immune from terrorist activity. But that sense of security is false, says Paul M. Cell, chief of the Montclair State University Police Department...

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Contracts, Deals, Awards

UGS Grants $1B in Software to Rebuild Southern Colleges

UGS Corp., a provider of product lifecycle management software, said it would offer in-kind software grants worth $1 billion to 50 colleges and universities in the five states directly affected by Hurricanes...

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Elmhurst College Revamps Net Storage, Recovery Solutions

Illinois’s Elmhurst College will purchase a back-up appliance from Revinetix Sentio Inc. to protect its Windows- and Linux-based computer servers used for ERP, course management software, e-mail, and Web applications...

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Featured

  • 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.