News Update :: Tuesday, December 5, 2006

News

Pick-a-Prof G'es Social; Adds API Link to Faceboook

Pick-a-Prof, a Web site that permits students to check a professor’s grading history, last week announced it had added a social layer by integrating Facebook’s application programming interface into its site...

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U.S. Intel Agencies Double Funding for Tech Scholars

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the umbrella agency for the U.S. intelligence community, more than doubled the number of schools in its scholarship program for students in intelligence-related fields such as computer science and engineering, USA Today reported last week...

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UC Irvine Joins OpenCourseWare Consortium

University of California at Irvine has joined the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCW), a movement backed by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to share teaching and learning content and resources freely via the Web...

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Siebel Foundation Names CompSci, B-School Scholars

The Siebel philanthropic organization last week awarded 40 graduate students in computer science and business $25,000 grants to honor their academic performance...

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Yale CS Enrollments Return After Dot-Com Decline

A steady decline in the number of computer science majors at Yale since the burst of the dot-com bubble may be stabilizing...

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Contracts, Deals, Awards

Google Pledges $2M to Stanford Law’s Internet Society

Google Inc. pledged $2 million to fund the Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford University’s law school...

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Georgia Tech Lands Deal to Develop Cell Chip Tech

Sony Corp., IBM Corp., and Toshiba Corp. agreed to fund a research center at the Georgia Institute of Technology...

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    Cybersecurity Researchers: AI Has Crossed into the Live Attack Chain

    AI is moving beyond assisting cybercriminals and beginning to operate within live attacks, according to a new report from Check Point Research. The technology is making sophisticated capabilities faster and more accessible while creating new security risks for businesses deploying their own AI systems.

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    New Microsoft AI Code of Conduct Emphasizes Human Control

    Microsoft has published a draft code of conduct that details how its homegrown AI models should behave, with human control taking priority over model capability, autonomy, and even task completion.

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    Anthropic Launches Lower-Cost Claude Sonnet 5

    Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, positioning the model as its most autonomous mid-tier offering to date and a lower-cost alternative to its flagship Opus 4.8 system. The company said the model can plan multi-step tasks, operate tools such as browsers and terminals, and complete agentic work at a level that previously required larger and more expensive models.

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    Report: AI Is Moving Faster than Data Trust

    AI agents are already in use or pilot at most organizations, but data visibility, governance and precision recovery capabilities have not kept pace, according to Veeam's new Data & AI Trust Gap report.