News Update :: Tuesday, November 7, 2006

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News

EDUCAUSE to Blackboard: 'Intense Anger' on Lawsuit

EDUCAUSE president Brian Hawkins said a patent infringement lawsuit by campus systems vendor Blackboard Inc. against Desire2Learn, a developer of Web-based learning apps, “go beyond competition to challenging the core values and interest in higher education.”...

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MIT to Collaborate With Singapore on Game Lab

MIT and Singapore’s Media Development Authority announced an agreement to establish the Singapore-MIT International Game Lab (SMIGL) to further digital game research globally, as well as to develop academic programs in game technology and establish Singapore as a hub of the game industry...

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Survey: Prospects Like Social Networking Recruitment

Prospective college students are open to recruitment methods that use social networking technology, according to a study by higher education consulting firm N'el-Levitz; recruiting firm James Tower; and the National Research Center for College & University Admissions (NRCCUA), a non-profit education research organization...

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Georgia Tech Opens Advanced Computing Center

Georgia Tech has opened the Christopher W. Klaus Advanced Computing Building, a research facility that will house students and faculty members from Georgia Tech’s College of Computing and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering...

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Apple Reports Highest Higher Ed Back to School Quarter

Apple Inc. announced its best back-to-school quarter ever for its higher education division...

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Contracts, Deals, Awards

Carnegie Mellon, Portugal Launch R&E Collaboration

Carnegie Mellon University and the Portuguese government said they would create a joint Information and Communications Technologies Institute...

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Dallas CC Cuts Deals for Wide-area Broadband Services

The Dallas County Community College District signed a 10-year contract with AT&T to provide fully managed, switched optical Ethernet network service...

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Mobile Learning in Higher Education Conference
in Charlotte, North Carolina, December 11-13, 2006

Events Calendar

Featured

  • From Fire TV to Signage Stick: University of Utah's Digital Signage Evolution

    Jake Sorensen, who oversees sponsorship and advertising and Student Media in Auxiliary Business Development at the University of Utah, has navigated the digital signage landscape for nearly 15 years. He was managing hundreds of devices on campus that were incompatible with digital signage requirements and needed a solution that was reliable and lowered labor costs. The Amazon Signage Stick, specifically engineered for digital signage applications, gave him the stability and design functionality the University of Utah needed, along with the assurance of long-term support.

  • Abstract geometric shapes including hexagons, circles, and triangles in blue, silver, and white

    Google Launches Its Most Advanced AI Model Yet

    Google has introduced Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, a new artificial intelligence model designed to reason through problems before delivering answers, a shift that marks a major leap in AI capability, according to the company.

  • Training the Next Generation of Space Cybersecurity Experts

    CT asked Scott Shackelford, Indiana University professor of law and director of the Ostrom Workshop Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance, about the possible emergence of space cybersecurity as a separate field that would support changing practices and foster future space cybersecurity leaders.

  • Two stylized glowing spheres with swirling particles and binary code are connected by light beams in a futuristic, gradient space

    New Boston-Based Research Center to Advance Quantum Computing with AI

    NVIDIA is establishing a research hub dedicated to advancing quantum computing through artificial intelligence (AI) and accelerated computing technologies.