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At the Web 3.0 Conference and Expo in Santa Clara today, Dave Beckett (principal software architect at Yahoo!) and Tom Hughes-Croucher (technical evangelist, Yahoo! Developer Network), answered questions about the recent consumer release of Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) and discussed the company’s future plans to open up almost everything. Read the Full Article
Remember when you were young and your family used to gather ’round the television eating dinner on TV trays, fixated by programs like M*A*S*H and All in the Family? Chit chat about what happened at school and work was relegated to commercial breaks. And then it was bedtime.Read the Full Article
As the internet replaces library databases as students’ primary research option, a new discussion is emerging in academic circles: Is the vast amount of information at students’ fingertips changing the way they gather and process information for the better–or for worse?Read the Full Article
This bird’s-eye view of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania was the first image ever seen by the GeoEye-1, the world’s highest-resolution commercial satellite sponsored by Google, when it opened its camera door earlier this week.Read the Full Article
Batavia, IL and Upton, NY—The world’s largest computing grid is ready to tackle mankind’s biggest data challenge from the earth’s most powerful accelerator. Today, three weeks after the first particle beams were injected into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid combines the power of more than 140 computer centers from 33 […]
I’ve used blogs in my classes for five years with university graduate students. I’ve found them to be extremely helpful in certain circumstances but only when there is clarity for students in their use. Students who object to the inclusion of blogs in a course are usually objecting to what they perceive will be just […]
Vijay Kumar, senior associate dean for undergraduate education at MIT and director of MIT’s Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, gave the opening luncheon speech at the recent Campus Technology Conference in Boston. Afterwards, I interviewed Vijay in depth about one of the topics that he covered in his speech regarding distance learning and open […]
Vint Cerf, one of the pioneers of the Internet and now Google’s vice president and chief Internet evangelist, ahs backed European telecommunications commissioner Viviane Reding’s vision for the future of the Internet.Read the Full Article
A project now under way at Stanford illustrates how integral high-tech innovation is at every level of the university: Stanford is in the beginning stages of making several of its core web-based systems and services available to students as applications on Apple’s iconic iPhone. Read the Full Article
Increased satisfaction ratings, more referrals, new student population growth credited to OnBase Read the Full Article
