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Over the last 20 years, inexpensive microcomputers brought affordable computing to business, educational and home computing environments. More than ever before, people are using computers as communicative and productive tools to accomplish tasks and obtain information on a daily basis. In the past, business schools provided microcomputer instruction mainly for the purpose of improving job […]
Polycom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), a worldwide leader in the convergence of interactive voice, video and data communications, today announced the shipment of its one-millionth conference phone, marking a significant achievement in the company’s history.
Communication systems connected by wire and fiber can be partially or completely wiped out in seconds by an attack or a natural disaster. Virginia Tech’s Center for Wireless Telecommunications (CWT), the National Science Foundation, and SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation, http://www.saic.com) are developing a wireless broadband communications network for rapid deployment in disaster response and […]
Two bills that would pump about $7.88-billion over five years into information-technology research and into guarding the nation’s computer infrastructure from terrorist attacks were introduced Tuesday in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Some educators and makers of assistive technologies are decrying a successful move by House Republicans to block $2.5 billion in guaranteed funding increases for students with disabilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Advocates of the increase said the Republican’s move will hamper schools’ efforts to purchase costly but effective new technologies aimed […]
Mary Lester is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Alliance for Technology Access (ATA). Mary was also the Associate Director of the first ATA Resource Center in Berkeley, CA. Russ Holland has been involved in the field of assistive technology for the past 25 years and is currently the Program Director of the ATA […]
Former National Science Foundation Senior Program Director Joins Renowned SRI Team
Sailors and officers in the United States Navy will be able to learn technical skills via the Web as the Navy redesigns its course-writing software to embrace new computer standards being developed in part in a laboratory at the University of Wisconsin.
UKD Academy entered the U.S. training market with an eWork Certificate Program.