News Update :: Tuesday, August 8, 2006

News

Rutgers to Lead Federal Media Sifting, Analysis Consortium

Rutgers University is getting $3 million from the federal government to lead a group of researchers scouring news stories, Internet sites, and other sources of information for clues that might indicate terrorist activity...

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U. of New Hampshire, U.S. Army Collaborate on IPv6 Testing

The University of New Hampshire’s Interoperability Laboratory completed a weeklong test of the “Moonv6” network, the world’s largest multi-vendor IPv6 next-generation Internet...

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WC3 Group to Internationalize Speech Synthesis Software

The World Wide Web Consortium has set goals for Web-based speech synthesis that would eventually enable people using many different languages to listen to synthesized speech on the Internet...

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Nike Founder Gives $105 Million Gift to Upgrade Stanford B-School

Nike Inc. founder Phil Knight will give $105 million to Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business...

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SCU Hosts Tech Business Boot Camp for Social Entrepreneurs

Santa Clara University’s (SCU) Center for Science, Technology and Society will host a two-week “boot-camp” this summer...

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Contracts, Deals, Awards

FSU Prof Gets Venture Funds for Electronic Paper Technology

A venture capital firm specializing in nanotechnology has bought licensing rights to commercialize...

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N.C. State Incorporates ERP Platform into Business Curriculum

N.C. State College of Management said it will use Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technology from NetSuite Inc. in its business and accounting master programs...

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Indiana State Picks Open Content Manager for Laptop Program

Indiana State University (ISU) announced that it would use a content management suite from Xythos Inc. to support a campus initiative to require all faculty and students to use laptop computers starting with its fall 2007 freshman class...

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Featured

  • InCommon Academy in action with an Advance CAMP unconference activity at the Internet2 Technology Exchange

    Community-Driven IAM Learning with Internet2's InCommon Academy

    Internet2's InCommon Academy Director Jean Chorazyczewski examines how the academy's community-driven identity and access management learning opportunities support CIOs, IT leaders, and their IAM teams in R&E.

  • businessman juggling cubes

    Anthology Restructures, Focuses on Teaching and Learning Business

    Anthology has announced a strategic restructuring, divesting its Enterprise Operations, Lifecycle Engagement, and Student Success businesses and filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in an effort to right-size its finances and focus on its core teaching and learning products.

  • Jasper Halekas, instrument lead for the Analyzer for Cusp Electrons (ACE), checks final calibration. ACE was designed and built at the University of Iowa for the TRACERS mission.

    TRACERS: The University of Iowa Leads NASA-Funded Space Weather Research with Twin Satellites

    Working in tandem, the recently launched TRACERS satellites enable new measurement strategies that will produce significant data for the study of space weather. And as lead institution for the mission, the University of Iowa upholds its long-held value of bringing research collaborations together with academics.

  • Hand holding a stylus over a tablet with futuristic risk management icons

    Why Universities Are Ransomware's Easy Target: Lessons from the 23% Surge

    Academic environments face heightened risk because their collaboration-driven environments are inherently open, making them more susceptible to attack, while the high-value research data they hold makes them an especially attractive target. The question is not if this data will be targeted, but whether universities can defend it swiftly enough against increasingly AI-powered threats.