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Should You Upgrade Your Software?

Should You Upgrade Your Software? By Reid Goldsborough The buzz these days among many computer insiders is about the coming releases of upgrades to Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. Windows Server 2003, an operating system designed for computer networks, was scheduled to be released in late April. Office 2003, combining word processing, spreadsheet and other […]

April 9, 2003

Cal State Campus Solar Powered

Cal State Campus Solar PoweredBy Ronald Roach NORTHRIDGE, Calif.In what is believed to be the largest solar energy project at an American university, California State University-Northridge has completed the installation of 3,000 photovoltaic panels on the campus, which is a move that is expected to save the school about $50,000 a year in electricity costs. […]

March 26, 2003

Sun Microsystems Starts Bioinformatics Project

Sun Microsystems Starts Bioinformatics Project By Ronald Roach SAN FRANCISCOBuilding on its commitment to advance academic research through high-performance computing technology, Sun Microsystems Inc. has announced the Sun North Carolina Research Triangle Center of Excellence (COE) in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. By bringing together seven prominent universities, institutions and business partners as participants of the […]

March 26, 2003

Innovative Robotics Research Keeps Spotlight On MIT Grad Student

Innovative Robotics Research Keeps Spotlight On MIT Grad StudentJames McLurkin recipient of annual Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventivenessBy Ronald Roach It’s not common that graduate school research brings national attention and prestigious awards to doctoral candidates. For James McLurkin, however, his work in robotics has won widespread recognition, most recently a prestigious student inventor’s prize […]

March 26, 2003

New Bill Puts Technology Funds in the Hands of HBCUs

New Bill Puts Technology Funds in the Hands of HBCUsBy Charles Dervarics A new bill from Senate Republicans seeks to address the digital divide by providing minority-serving colleges with money to address technology issues. The Digital and Wireless Network Technology Program Act would provide funds to upgrade technology, support technology degrees and promote use of […]

March 26, 2003

Is There a Solution to Buggy Computers?

Is There a Solution to Buggy Computers?By Reid Goldsborough As I was writing this, Microsoft issued three more updates for Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 — one “critical” update, one security update and one patch. Recently a security vulnerability in Microsoft’s database program SQL Server 2000 enabled a computer “worm” known as […]

March 12, 2003

Open Source Software Maker Offers Academic Program

Open Source Software Maker Offers Academic ProgramBy Ronald Roach RALEIGH, N.C.Red Hat Inc., a leading Linux and open source software provider, has announced the Red Hat Academy, a comprehensive educational package enabling schools and colleges to certify their students in Linux operating system and applications software. With Linux becoming a popular alternative to the Microsoft […]

March 12, 2003

On the Technology Job Market

the Technology Job MarketSlight decline in new computer science majors, prompts researchers to ponder current, future state of technology employmentBy Phaedra Brotherton The downturn in the economy and the recent dot-com and technology bust may be causing more undergraduates to think twice about majoring in computer science or engineering. In 2001 and 2002, there was […]

March 12, 2003

Mastering the Challenge of High-Performance Computing

Mastering the Challenge of High-Performance Computing But there are perils in ignoring developments in the rising field, scholars sayBy Ronald RoachNot long after her appointment as Hampton University’s first chief information officer in 1999, Debra S. White, a former IBM executive, found that in addition to managing a campus IT network upgrade she had to […]

March 12, 2003

Faculty & Staff

The Art of High Performance In Technology, Science, Life

The Art of High Performance In Technology, Science, Life In “Mastering the Challenge of High-Performance Computing,” senior writer Ronald Roach examines the nexus between information technology and scientific discovery. For the nation’s colleges and universities to have truly competitive information technology infrastructures, campus leaders will have to adopt innovative technologies in their campus networks that […]

March 12, 2003

Fighting Surf Wars

Fighting Surf WarsBy Reid Goldsborough The metaphor comparing the business world to a battleground is often overused. But it’s not trite to say that a fierce struggle is raging between Web advertisers trying to capture your attention and Web consumers who want to surf unfettered. The stakes are high. With the collapse of the dot-com […]

February 26, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Venturing Into Computational Humanities

Venturing Into Computational HumanitiesNew field seeks to bring advanced computing to humanities, social science researchBy Ronald Roach It’s natural to expect that a significant degree of contemporary scientific discoveries stem from the application of high-performance computing and supercomputers to complex problems. Given that high-performance computing has exclusively been serving science for some time, a California-based […]

February 26, 2003

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