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Shifting the Emphasis

Shifting the Emphasis From Prison to Education: How Indiana  Saved over $40 millionStates are facing the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Yet, despite these deficiencies in funds, state governors must assure their constituents that dangerous criminals will still be arrested, adjudicated and imprisoned. Experience shows that the best way to ensure public safety […]

March 24, 2004

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Computer Problems Can Infuriate Even the Most Tech Savvy

Computer Problems Can Infuriate Even the Most Tech SavvyWhich high-tech products give you the most grief? Surprisingly, more people singled out TiVo and replay digital recording systems than personal computers, according to a recent survey by Best Buy .Nine percent of people said they found these TV devices difficult to use. The same percentage found […]

February 25, 2004

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Study Says Older Adults Less Negative About Personal Computers

Study Says Older Adults Less Negative About Personal ComputersMUNCIE, Ind.In a 10-year span from 1989 to 1999, older adults grew less uneasy using personal computers but were still wary of social changes caused by technology, a Ball State University study reports. A survey of 94 people 60 years and older in 1999 found 39.4 percent […]

February 11, 2004

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Using Web Forums to Attract Surfers

Using Web Forums to Attract SurfersThe one feature that most distinguishes the Internet from any previous communications medium is its interactivity. The Net is a two-way street. You give, and you receive. Savvy organizations and individuals have long recognized this, making it easy for people to contact them and diligently respond to e-mail. Organizations on […]

January 28, 2004

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California College Launches Video Game Design Program

California College Launches Video Game Design ProgramLOS ANGELES Officials at the Southern California-based campuses of Westwood College have announced the launch of a new game software development degree program. Initiated at the Los Angeles, Anaheim and Inland Empire campuses, the program got under way this month for the winter-spring 2004 term. Leveraging the Southern California […]

January 28, 2004

HBCUs

Higher Education Digital Opportunity Bill

Higher Education Digital Opportunity Bill Faces Uncertain FutureLast summer, congressional legislation earmarking more than a billion dollars to minority-serving institutions to help them upgrade their computing and information infrastructures seemed to have sure prospects following its passage by the U.S. Senate and the House Science Committee. But since the fall, the legislation has languished in […]

January 28, 2004

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Scholars of Note: Electrical Engineering

Electrical EngineeringMaking Things SmartCharles L. Isbell Jr.Title: Assistant Professor, Intelligent Systems Group, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, AtlantaEducation: Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.S., Computer Science, Georgia Institute of TechnologyAge: 35 In science fiction movies, the plots showcasing the potential of artificial intelligence typically invoke doomsday scenarios where […]

January 14, 2004

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Boosting the Power of Your Word Processor

Boosting the Power of Your Word ProcessorIn the competitive world of personal computers, software companies act like little empires, conquering related programs and gobbling up the territory they once held. Programs continually add features, causing other software that once consisted of only those features to go away.The most commonly used office-type program, the word processor, […]

December 31, 2003

Community Colleges

Wireless Movement Dominating Campus IT Change

Wireless Movement Dominating Campus IT ChangeA steady growth in the use of wireless networks on American college campuses represents one of the most significant trends in the higher education information technology (IT) landscape, according to the academy’s most widely recognized technology survey. In the latest release of the Campus Computing Survey by Dr. Kenneth Green, […]

December 31, 2003

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Hampton Ranked No. 6 on ‘Most Connected Campuses’ List

Hampton Ranked No. 6 on ‘Most Connected Campuses’ ListNEW YORKAccording to the Princeton Review, Hampton University is among the top tier of schools in the 2003 “Most Connected Campuses” survey. As the only historically Black school listed in the top 25, Hampton tied for sixth place with three other schools, according to the survey.Other historically […]

December 31, 2003

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Fielding’s Media Psychology Program Welcomes Its First Class

Fielding’s Media Psychology Program Welcomes Its First ClassSANTA BARBARA, Calif.Fielding Graduate Institute welcomed its first class of students this fall in the school’s newly created Ph.D. program in Media Psychology. The students are all mid-career professionals from organizations as different as Disney, Gateway Computers and Stanford Medical Center. They will continue to work in their […]

November 5, 2003

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Fighting Back Against Online Auction Fraud

Fighting Back Against Online Auction FraudOnline auctions have been called the world’s largest marketplace, with eBay in particular evolving from a hobbyists’ enclave into a venue where companies transact millions of dollars in business.But the online auction world has also been called the digital Wild West, with rampant fraud taking place. Online auction fraud tripled […]

September 24, 2003