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Overcoming a Fear of PCs

Overcoming a Fear of PCsAre you afraid of computers? Do you know someone who is? If you’ve grown up with personal computers or been around them for any length of time, you probably take them for granted. After all, personal computers have become nearly as commonplace as dishwashers.More than half of U.S. homes now have […]

January 16, 2002

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Seton Hall Reaches Low-Income Residents With Digital Divide Effort

Seton Hall Reaches Low-Income Residents With Digital Divide EffortSOUTH ORANGE, N.JInner-city students and their parents are getting exposure and training on computers and the Internet through Seton Hall University’s Project SHUTTLE. “Like the space shuttle, Project SHUTTLE takes people to places they have never been before,” says Willie Francine Brown, associate director of technology and […]

January 16, 2002

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Winston-Salem State Experiments With Handheld Computers

Winston-Salem State Experiments With Handheld ComputersWINSTON-SALEM, N.C.Last semester, Dr. Matthew Hafar incorporated pocket PCs, which are handheld computers or are considered personal digital assistants (PDA), as part of the learning tools used by his students in the music classes he taught. Hafar is a music professor at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) in Winston-Salem, N.C.“I basically […]

January 16, 2002

Leadership & Policy

Massey Appointed to Presidential Council

Massey Appointed to Presidential CouncilATLANTAPresident George W. Bush has appointed Dr. Walter E. Massey, president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, to his Presidential Committee on Science and Technology. Bush made the announcement last month at the White House. “I am pleased and excited to have been asked to serve, again, on the President’s Council on Science […]

January 16, 2002

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Prophesying the Future of Digital Technology

Prophesying the Future of Digital Technology“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.” Shakespeare’s words are just as wise today, but this hasn’t stopped people from trying to divine the future.The latest future-oriented computing issue goes by the overbroad moniker […]

January 2, 2002

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Study Examines Whether Broadband Redlining Exists

Study Examines Whether Broadband Redlining Exists WASHINGTONAmong the latest concerns of those seeking to bridge the technology gap between poor and affluent Americans is the availability of access to broadband, or high-speed, Internet service. A December 2001 study released by the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies has analyzed whether redlining is being practiced by […]

January 2, 2002

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Educause-Sponsored Conference Scheduled for April 2002

Educause-Sponsored Conference Scheduled for April 2002 WASHINGTONNetworking 2002, the annual policy forum conference, will be held April 17-18, 2002, at the Capitol Hilton in Washington, D.C. The theme is “Building Relationships, Making Connections, Identifying New Opportunities.”Educause, the nation’s leading association of higher education IT professionals, and other higher education groups sponsor the annual Networking conferences […]

January 2, 2002

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Law Professor Explores Digital Divide, Race in New Book

Law Professor Explores Digital Divide, Race in New BookOMAHA, Neb.Despite the increasing availability and affordability of information technology, minorities are likely to remain confined to being technology “have nots” in an American society which is becoming increasingly separated between technology “haves” and “have nots,” according to a Creighton University law professor in her recently published […]

January 2, 2002

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Sensitizing Software

Sensitizing SoftwareMany don’t think about it, but race and gender affect software design, just as culture influences the way we use technology.  “The majority of software is designed by White men,” says Dr. Nichole Pinkard, assistant professor of education at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. “Designers design based on their experiences. Some educational […]

January 2, 2002

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(De)Programming Stereotypes

(De)Programming StereotypesDr. Juan E. Gilbert has long been accustomed to the surprised looks of freshmen taking his computer science classes at Auburn University in Alabama. “They’re not familiar with many Blacks in a computer science class, much less having a professor who is Black,” says Gilbert, who joined the faculty a year and a half […]

January 2, 2002

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How to Keep from Embarrassing Yourself Online

How to Keep from Embarrassing Yourself OnlineIn one Internet discussion group I follow, some of the participants questioned the ethics of a company. The company was accused, among other things, of manipulating the online images of items they were selling to make the items appear more valuable than they were.The company got wind of this, […]

December 5, 2001

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Educause to Manage .Edu Internet Domain

Educause to Manage .Edu Internet DomainWashingtonThe U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has announced the award of a five-year cooperative agreement with the Washington-based Educause organization, which authorizes the higher education IT group to manage the “.edu” Internet domain name for higher education institutions. Educause is the nation’s leading nonprofit association representing […]

November 21, 2001