C-Level View :: March 28, 2007 -- Campus Technology

Invest Locally: A community source leader's thoughts on how to break down the barriers to open source adoption.; By Christopher D. Coppola; Sakai, Kuali, uPortal, Moodle, and others are taking advantage of a better way to build software through open source communities… Spending dollars on open source ensures that these communities have the resources necessary to be sustainable over the long term....

Enterprise Content Management and Open Source BI Emerge at TDWI: Higher education's rapidly growing interest in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing comes at a time when many new trends and techniques are appearing in BI. The convergence of content management and BI is one, and though it is still early--there are only a few products available right now--this year's TDWI World Conference is leading the charge with three days of classes on the topic....
IBM, Universities Expand Accessibility Project: IBM is working with several universities to expand a repository of reusable learning materials that will make it easier for student developers to make software more accessible to people with disabilities. The repository will help change a culture in which the majority of faculty respondents do not teach accessibility in the classroom, IBM said....

Baylor Names CIO, Libraries Dean from Wellesley: Baylor University named Pattie Orr vice president for information technology and dean of its libraries. Orr, who is pursuing a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Massachusetts, is currently director of user services at Wellesley College....

Student Voices: Technology as a Future Learning Partner

A data analytics and marketing major at Bentley University and a distinguished lecturer at the university explore the future of "technology learning partners" — technologies that participate in the learning process by asking questions and giving feedback, not just information search results.
Organizations Advised to Expand Threat Modeling in Preparation for Quantum-Era Attacks

Microsoft is encouraging organizations to expand threat-modeling exercises to uncover cryptographic dependencies that could leave applications and data vulnerable to future quantum computing attacks.
OpenAI's Astra Model Reaches Critical Cyber Threshold

OpenAI has unveiled GPT-6 Astra, its most capable broadly deployed model and the first system the company says has reached the "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework.
Report: AI May Be Eroding the Very Skills Employers Need Most

AI is changing which human capabilities matter most at work, yet employees are reporting that some of those same capabilities are being eroded, according to a new IBM study.