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As part of its 21st Century Strategic Plan, the Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today a restructuring of its legislative and international affairs operations. The restructured office will have three divisions dealing with Congressional relations, international affairs and enforcement programs. The change results from the recent top-to-bottom review of […]
A high-school algebra student is struggling with quadratic equations. He loads a photographic image of his face and a sample equation into a simple but sophisticated computer program. The program distorts the image based on that equation, thus providing a visual illustration of the concept. Read The Full Article
Content and collaboration are becoming increasingly intimate bedfellows, but one of the key players in content management–Documentum Inc.–has been absent on that front. Until now. Read The Full Article
While there have been concerns about the decline in popularity of traditional subjects such as modern languages and engineering, there are other new courses which are benefiting from television exposure. Read The Full Article
This book examines the various aspects of delivering skills training by open and distance learning: the stakeholders; the learners; the curriculum; designing, developing and delivering the courses; supporting the students; training the staff; accrediting the results and assuring the quality of training. It also looks at ways of teaching practical skills. The final chapter brings […]
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court, is the latest challenge by an academic researcher to the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act. )Read The Full Article
The satellite broadcast will be offered from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 6 and will be available nationwide on the KU and C bands. Read The Full Article
In spite of past fiber setbacks, 2002 has seen a influx of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) solutions from a bevy of equipment makers, bringing prices down and making the technology manageable for not only incumbent monopoly telecom carriers, but also municipalities, upscale development communities and small independent companies. Read The Full Article
First held in 1998, the LITA National Forum has become a highly regarded annual event for those whose work involves new and leading edge technologies in the library and information technology field. Visit the Site
REDMOND, Wash. — July 24, 2002 — Microsoft Corp.’s Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates today outlined the company’s vision and road map for phase two of Microsoft® .NET, the company’s two-year-old software initiative for connecting information, people, disparate systems and devices. This next phase continues to build upon the XML-based interoperability of Web […]