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The embattled music industry — struggling to halt declining compact-disc sales that it blames on Internet song piracy — fired another strong counterattack yesterday, suing four college students at three universities who run Napster-like file-sharing sites. Read the Full Article
Joseph Nievelt, a student at Michigan Technological University; Daniel Peng, a student at Princeton University; and Aaron Sherman and Jesse Jordan, both students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, were named in separate suits filed in federal district courts in Michigan, New Jersey, and New York. The institutions were not sued. Read the Full Article
The two sides agreed Thursday on how much big webcasters like Yahoo!, America Online, Microsoft and RealNetworks must pay to broadcast songs over the Internet during 2003 and 2004. Read the Full Article
The goal of this project is to determine how the use of laptop computers and wireless connectivity can enhance the undergraduate academic experience in engineering.Read the Full Article
SimSon, a full-body mannequin with lifelike heartbeats and pulses, and realistic breath and body sounds, joins the more complex SimMan (Sam) in the school’s arsenal of teaching tools. SimMan is used in the nurse anesthetist program.Read the Full Article
The presidents of the University of Missouri System, Northwest Missouri State University, Truman State University and Central Missouri State University signed an agreement Wednesday to jointly offer graduate programs not currently accessible to residents living north of Interstate 70. Read the Full Article
Building a smaller-scale replica, though, proved that assumption incorrect.Read the Full Article
The answer, he says, is simple: “To use the Internet like an interactive game.”Read the Full Article
Kostadinos G. Goulias, professor of civil engineering and environmental engineering, and director of Penn State’s Mid-Atlantic Universities Transportation Center, says, “Our results suggest that on-line travel information will become more important in the future as home Internet access increases, which could be significant for those planning evacuations or traffic diversions for homeland security.” Goulias detailed […]
The training will assist Wachovia in providing all employees with additional skills and knowledge that enable them to perform their job functions and provide exceptional customer service. “We chose Element K based on the excellent usability and quality of their content, the performance of the content with our existing bank infrastructure and learning management system, […]