IT Trends :: Thursday, December 14, 2006

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New Technology

Anderson University Connects to ILight Network

Anderson University is the first private institution in Indiana to be connected to ILight, as well as to Internet2. ILight is Indiana's statewide higher education optical network. The university recently upgraded its Internet connection to ILight to take full advantage of advanced research networks such as the Internet2 network, a consortium of more than 200 universities that offers some of the world’s fastest computers…

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RFID-based Situational ‘Cookie Crumbs’ for the Blind

On South University Avenue at the University of Michigan, this device won't exactly fit into your pocket right now. It’s more like you'd lug it around like a rolling suitcase. When it's "handheld," it will let blind people pick up constant speech-delivered situational context from a multitude of databased RFID tags…

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Internet2 Community's Shibboleth Makes Waves

A single sign (SSO) on middleware product from Internet2 is providing interoperability between higher education and the world of federal government agencies. This marks a major milestone in allowing the research and education community to use their existing campus' identities to access essential online federal government resources…

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University of Kentucky Moving Away from Social Security Numbers Just In Time

Several recent incidents have the University of Kentucky constituency increasingly concerned about personal data security. But the university is ahead of the curve, already beginning to implement IRIS (the Integrated Resource Information Systems), and having stopped the use of Social Security identification numbers in October…

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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.

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    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.

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    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.