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Tapping Into Your PC’s Potential

Tapping Into Your PC’s PotentialAre you making the most of your PC? Probably not, judging from my own observations and those of others. To get a better feel for this, I talked with a product manager at Hewlett Packard. HP recently merged with Compaq, making it the largest personal computer manufacturer in the world, according […]

August 28, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Microsoft Showcases Higher Education Initiatives

Microsoft Showcases Higher Education Initiatives REDMOND, Wash. At the third annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, company Chairman Bill Gates announced the formation of the Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board. Speaking to 325 faculty researchers from institutions worldwide, Gates stressed the importance of finding innovative ways to foster a safer, more private and more reliable computing […]

August 28, 2002

Tips on How to Best Use Computer Tips

Tips on How to Best Use Computer TipsSome people love to tinker, to take what they have and try to improve it. Others regard tinkering as the equivalent of sticking a screwdriver inside an electrical outlet.A personal computer and the software that runs on it, being as customizable as they are, give you great opportunities […]

August 14, 2002

NASA Selects Hampton Mission for Satellite Flight

NASA Selects Hampton Mission for Satellite FlightHAMPTON, Va.Hampton University’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesophere (AIM) Mission has been selected for satellite flight in NASA’s Small Explorer (SMEX) program, NASA announced last month.Hampton’s research project was one of two missions selected from among 43 proposals submitted by U.S. universities and research centers. Hampton was selected […]

July 31, 2002

Assistive Technology Comes Into Focus

Assistive Technology Comes Into FocusWith the push from federal legislation, colleges and universities enhance learning for the disabledAccess in higher education is usually understood as the admission, financing, and social support of students belonging to socially disadvantaged groups as they pursue postsecondary education. However, that understanding has focused largely on students from racial and ethnic […]

July 17, 2002

People Who Love Their Computers Too Much

People Who Love Their Computers Too MuchJoe, a computer programmer, was talking with his psychotherapist. “You’ve got to help me,” he says. “I’ve fallen in love with my computer, but I know I can never marry her.”“Well, it’s good you haven’t totally lost touch with reality,” says the therapist. “Oh, it could never work,” says […]

June 19, 2002

Don’t Be a Password Moron

Don’t Be a Password MoronSo your college’s administration has finally come through on its promise to replace the Paleolithic machines in your department with new computers. The delivery guys have hauled them in and uncrated them. The computer guys have come in and installed the software and whatever else it is they do.Now you’re sitting […]

May 22, 2002

The Influence of Active Online Users

The Influence of Active Online UsersWe active online users like to think of ourselves as savvy, hip and influential. We have access to the latest information technology, and more importantly, know how to use it to its full potential. Sure, when we take things to an extreme, we become nerds, isolated from other spheres of […]

April 24, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Supercomputing Conference Seeks Faculty Participation

Supercomputing Conference Seeks Faculty ParticipationBALTIMOREAn upcoming supercomputing conference in Baltimore is seeking the participation of teams of undergraduate faculty and K-12 teachers to spend four days in hands-on workshops learning about high-performance computing and communications tools and resources appropriate for their classroom. Entitled this year as SC2002, the annual conference features high-performance computing and communications […]

April 10, 2002

Can You Criticize Your Computer Software?

Can You Criticize Your Computer Software?Who’s in charge of what you do or say with your computer equipment? You, or the companies who sell it to you? While none of us are completely in control of our destiny — even the most unfettered work under the sway of someone else in one way or another […]

March 27, 2002

Broadband Surpasses Dial-Up in First Time Internet Access

Broadband Surpasses Dial-Up in First Time Internet Access NEW YORKMore Americans signing up for first-time Internet access used broadband service in January than dial-up and other narrowband services, a first, according to the Nielsen/Net Ratings. This development is considered a milestone event as research continues to show that the Internet is becoming a more integral […]

March 27, 2002

Verdicts on the Latest and Greatest Technology

Verdicts on the Latest and Greatest TechnologyWhat’s hot these days in personal computing technology? What’s merely hyped? With the caveat that this is at least somewhat subjective, here’s a rundown of some of the latest and greatest gadgets, gizmos and gewgaws, along with a recommendation of which items are worth you opening your wallet.• CPUsA […]

March 13, 2002

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