IT Trends :: Thursday, September 14, 2006

  • 09/13/06

Deals, Contracts, Awards

Prototype Educational Facility Opens in Philadelphia

The Philadelphia school district, the seventh largest in the country due to its 278 schools and over 210,000 students, enlisted the services of Meru Networks to develop a district-wide WLAN system. One particular school, a West Philadelphia secondary school, is "a state-of-the-art facility where technology will permeate the entire educational milieu. The expectation is that students will be better prepared for their continued college-level educational experience as well as for their future entry into the workforce."…

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Qatar University to Deploy Digital Campus Solutions from SunGard Higher Education

The Middle East moves to enterprise systems for universities: Or, at least Qatar University is planning to replace its legacy administrative systems with SunGard Higher Education. The university has embarked on an ambitious project to replace its legacy student management system with a unified solution from SunGard to help support the institution’s vision of becoming a model national university…

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    NIST Proposes New Cybersecurity Guidelines for AI Systems

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has unveiled plans to issue a new set of cybersecurity guidelines aimed at safeguarding artificial intelligence systems, citing rising concerns over risks tied to generative models, predictive analytics, and autonomous agents.

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    AWS, DeepBrain AI Launch AI-Generated Multimedia Content Detector

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) and DeepBrain AI have introduced AI Detector, an enterprise-grade solution designed to identify and manage AI-generated content across multiple media types. The collaboration targets organizations in government, finance, media, law, and education sectors that need to validate content authenticity at scale.