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Tag: Computing: Page 29

Startup’s PC-sharing tech could rival more celebrated efforts to bring low-cost computing to disadvantaged students

When the government minister for technology in Macedonia, one of Europe’s poorest countries, decided to jolt the nation’s educational system by outfitting schools with new computers, he had a surprising array of blue-chip choices.

September 16, 2007

FIU students building green home to display at Olympics

MIAMI While most participants in Beijing’s Summer Olympics next year will be going for the gold, a group of Florida college students will go for the green.

August 12, 2007

Network, not iPhone, to blame for wireless glitches at Duke

RALEIGH N.C. A problem with Duke University’s wireless network caused outages at the school, officials said Friday, exonerating the initial suspect, Apple Inc.’s new iPhone.

July 22, 2007

Supercomputer to Anchor New Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha Computing Center

OMAHA Neb. A supercomputer expected to be among the 50 most powerful in the world will anchor a new computing center at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

July 18, 2007

Blue Light – Review

Blue Light by Walter Mosely, Little, Brown Company, $24.00, 288 pages.

July 15, 2007

Parable of the Talents – Review

Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler, Group West, $24.95, 400 pages.

July 15, 2007

Planning for Technology

New guide offers a model for information technology planning that is tailored to the needs of HBCUs

July 14, 2007

1998 Ad

ORLANDO, Fla. At the final national conference held here last month under the venerable name of Educom, David A. Staudt, along with hundreds of college and university information technology professionals, began charting a course for higher education’s new information technology organization, Educause.

July 14, 2007

HBCUs get wired for fall – historically Black colleges and universities

Summer is the season many colleges and universities schedule construction and renovation projects on their campuses because it is when such activity is least disruptive for faculty, administrators, and students.

July 13, 2007

The networking imperative – investment in high-technology information infrastructure – includes related article

The high cost of building and maintaining the infrastructure necessary to support information is nowhere near the price schools will play if they do not develop this strategic asset.

July 13, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Florida A&M advances with Internet2 – Florida A&M University

When the word went out last year that a consortium of major universities was forming to create the next generation of Internet technology and applications, Florida A&M University did not hesitate to join the initiative. Researchers at the nationally acclaimed school engaged in molecular database development, atmospheric physics calculations and other computing intensive research recognized that an advanced Internet could smooth the way for their collaboration with other researchers around the nation.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Technology: a considerable investment expected to pay big dividends – use of the World Wide Web as an educational resource

Like most American institutions of higher learning, Voorhees College is boldly embracing the future. The small liberal arts, historically Black institution in Denmark, S.C., has adopted information technology to overcome the isolation that its rural, out-of-the-way location has imposed on the Episcopal Church-affiliated school.

July 10, 2007

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