IT Trends :: Thursday, October 12, 2006

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Deals, Contracts, Awards

Arizona State University and Canon Team Up for Digital and Sustainable

Canon U.S.A., Inc. and Arizona State University announced a long-term partnership to build a world-class “Sustainable Digital University” at ASU. The goal is to eliminate as much paper as possible, as well as to install the most energy-saving devices, with the least toxic up-stream production waste and with 100 percent recycling…

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'Convergence' Is the Buzzword at CU-Boulder

The Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS) complex for the media building (66k sq ft and $34M) is the center of IT innovation at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where the professors say the dance to stay ahead of the students is intense. One thing of note is a decided lack of walls. Plans for building a computer lab were scrapped in favor of building an open-air wireless lounge…

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