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The federal government has given surgeons at East Carolina University and four other hospitals the green light to use the nation’s first robotic surgical device, a three-armed assistant named “da Vinci.” Last month, the da Vinci Surgical System became the first surgical robot to win Food and Drug Administration approval, allowing the machine to help […]

August 2, 2000

Panel Pushes Support for Women, Minorities in Technology

Panel Pushes Support for Women, Minorities in TechnologyWASHINGTON — The federal government must “significantly expand” initiatives to recruit minorities and women for science and technology careers through larger Pell grants, increased support for Black colleges and other services, a bipartisan congressional panel says.“The problem has been studied enough. Now we need action,” says Rep. Eddie […]

August 2, 2000

Words Worth More on Web Sites

Words Worth More on Web SitesBy Reid GoldsboroughOn the Web, content is king.This notion was recently reinforced by a study from the Poynter Institute and Stanford University showing that, unlike with newspapers and magazines, people who read Web sites typically focus on the text first, looking at photos and other graphics afterward.The appearance of your […]

July 19, 2000

On-Ramps to the Information Highway

On-Ramps to the Information HighwayWe live in the Age of Information, with information access exploding exponentially. You need information to gain knowledge, and knowledge to gain wisdom. In practical terms, as the noted economist Peter F. Drucker has written, knowledge more than technology is key in giving individuals and companies a competitive edge.If you’re like […]

July 5, 2000

Gates Talks Tech with Supportive Black Caucus

Gates Talks Tech with Supportive Black CaucusWASHINGTON — The day before a U.S. federal judge ordered software giant Microsoft split into two companies as penalty for antitrust violations, company founder and chairman Bill Gates dined privately here with Congressional Black Caucus members in a room in the U.S. Capitol. During the luncheon, organized as a […]

July 5, 2000

UC-Davis Neurosurgeon Tests New Technology To Heal Both

UC-Davis Neurosurgeon Tests New Technology To Heal BothDAVIS, Calif. — James Boggan, M.D., is one of the most highly regarded neurosurgeons in the nation. In the operating room — sometimes participating in surgeries that last up to 30 hours — he has helped hundreds overcome devastating brain disorders and illnesses. Yet today the professor at […]

July 5, 2000

Your Computer Chair Should be The Best Seat in the House

Your Computer Chair Should be The Best Seat in the HouseIf you spend any amount of time working on a computer, the most important machine to you — and the most overlooked — is probably not the one you type on but the one you sit on. Chairs, specifically ergonomic ones adjustable in multiple ways, […]

June 7, 2000

Tech Talk

Ga. Students to Pay Tech Fees Next YearATLANTA — Students on Georgia’s public college campuses will pay a technology fee next fall, but what they get for their money will vary widely depending on where they go to school.Many students will be able to register for classes online and connect to the Internet in their […]

June 7, 2000

Tech Briefs

Hobsons HBCU Guide To Include Atlanta University SchoolsATLANTA — The four historically Black schools that make up the Atlanta University Center are the latest institutions to sign up for inclusion in Hobsons Publications “The Guide to Historically Black Colleges and Universities.” The interactive CD-ROM will feature detailed information about Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Morris […]

May 24, 2000

Yahoo! They Made It

Yahoo! They Made It For first time in years, two Black colleges named ‘most wired’HAMPTON, Va. — As the only historically Black institutions to make the Yahoo! Internet Life “Most Wired Colleges” year 2000 list, officials at Hampton University here and Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tenn., say the recognition helps bring attention to the progress […]

May 24, 2000

Community Colleges

Conference Examines Digital Divide

Conference Examines Digital DivideAs an administrator and computer science instructor at West Los Angeles College, Zenobia Millet had a busy agenda last month at the Community College Foundation’s Tech Ed 2000 educational technology conference in Palm Springs, Calif. Looking to forge partnerships with computer software and hardware companies, Millet spent much of her time meeting […]

April 26, 2000

Scientist Works to Give Women A Voice in the Cyberworld

Scientist Works to Give Women A Voice in the CyberworldPALO ALTO, Calif. — Dr. Anita Borg sees a world suffering from pronoun problems — namely that the technological revolution sweeping the globe is too often led by “pale males” setting standards in a world where women are in the majority.Don’t call her a radical feminist. […]

April 26, 2000

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