News Update :: Tuesday, January 16, 2007

  • 01/16/07

News

BlackBoard Launches Education Social Bookmark Service

Course management system giant Blackboard has launched a social bookmarking service--"customized for education" -- and aimed at Blackboard and WebCT customers....

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UK Students Offered Cash for Open Source Software

British university students are being offered cash incentives to write open source software. The UK Free Software Network (UKFSN), a Hertfordshire, England-based Internet service provider, said it will use its profits to form a fund to benefit students who write software that can be modified by its end users....

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U. Illinois Robotics Researchers Discover Less Intelligence is More

Robotics researchers at the University of Illinois are helping develop a "minimalist" theory for programming robot intelligence, a method designed to pare down robot data requirements to the essentials....

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Berners-Lee Wins Draper Prize, Engineering's Nobel

Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the World Wide Web, will receive the 2007 Charles Stark Draper Prize, the $500,000 annual award considered "engineering's Nobel Prize."...

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Schwarzenegger Proposes $95 Million For Tech Initiative

Calif. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to ask for $95 million in the state budget to create the Governor's Research and Innovation Initiative, designed boost investment in the state's "innovation sectors," including information technology, cleantech, biotech and nanotech....

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Contracts, Deals, Awards

Stanford Signs Deal to Manage Electronic Waste

Stanford University signed a contract with Electronic Recyclers, California's largest recycler of electronic waste, to manage and recycle all electronic waste materials collected on the campus....

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West Virginia U. Signs Major Energy Performance Contract

West Virginia University signed an energy savings performance contract to help significantly reduce the annual energy and water usage at its Morgantown, WV campus....

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Educational Technology Research Symposium
in Austin, Texas, February 5-6, 2007

Events Calendar

Featured

  • SXSW EDU

    Explore the Future of AI in Higher Ed at SXSW EDU 2025

    This March 3-6 in Austin, TX, the SXSW EDU Conference & Festival celebrates its 15th year of exploring education's most critical issues and providing a forum for creativity, innovation, and expression.

  • white clouds in the sky overlaid with glowing network nodes, circuits, and AI symbols

    AWS, Microsoft, Google, Others Make DeepSeek-R1 AI Model Available on Their Platforms

    Leading cloud service providers are now making the open source DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model available on their platforms, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

  • glowing futuristic laptop with a holographic screen displaying digital text

    New Turnitin Product Brings AI-Powered Tools to Students with Instructor Guardrails

    Academic integrity solution provider Turnitin has introduced Turnitin Clarity, a paid add-on for Turnitin Feedback Studio that provides a composition workspace for students with educator-guided AI assistance, AI-generated writing feedback, visibility into integrity insights, and more.

  • 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.