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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie today (June 20) announced completion of the “backbone” of a high-speed, fiber-optic network that will provide every public and private college campus in Indiana with digital communications at least 20 times faster than a typical home Internet connection.Read the Full Article
A YouTube channel from Stanford made its debut Monday, featuring Oprah Winfrey’s keynote speech at the university’s Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15. The channel, at http://www.youtube.com/stanford, also includes nearly 200 other videos, and Stanford will continue to add additional content as it becomes available. Read the Full Article
Like a Doppler weather map with red blotches tracking the paths of major storms, a new tracking software service co-developed by Columbia University computer science professor Tony Jebara instantly shows people where the hottest clubs or hangouts are, in real time. Read the Full Article
A new Web content management system that will be made available to a group of selected “early adopters†starting this summer will allow more of a focus on content, rather than maintenance, on campus Web sites.Read the Full Article
Philadelphia and Chicago — Comcast Corporation and the Big Ten Network announced Wednesday (June 19) that they have reached a long-term multimedia agreement for Comcast to carry Big Ten Network programming across television, broadband and video-on-demand in time for the 2008 college football season.Read the Full Article
The PC industry’s two largest graphics companies released new top-of-the-line models this week. The new graphics processors will bring not just better videogame performance, but will also turn ordinary desktop PCs into the equivalent of supercomputers — if programmers can figure out how to take advantage of the chips’ massively parallel architectures.Read the Full Article
The State of Victoria has invested $100 million in an effort to build Australia’s largest supercomputer and the world’s largest life sciences supercomputer facility.Read the Full Article
While Windows is ubiquitous on the desktop and well represented in the server racks, until recently it has been nearly absent from the world’s largest supercomputers.Read the Full Article
While American institutions of higher education still lead the world in quality of instruction, research and service, certain trends are challenging their future. Immediate attention to resolving these issues is necessary if the American university is going to maintain world leadership in the foreseeable future. The theory of transactional distance is put forward as a […]
This special issue of JOLT, focusing on exploring next generation learning/course management systems (NG-L/CMS), is indeed special and for more reasons than the decision to focus an issue on a single, pressing topic for the JOLT community.Read the Full Article