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Hackers Leak Tons of Data from University of Washington

By relying on a vulnerability they found on the official website of University of Washington (washington.edu), hackers called NOBODY and NOLIFE managed to gain access and obtain a large quantity of sensitive data from their databases. The Hacker News informs that a Pastebin file contains usernames, passwords, email ...

7 February 2012
04:45 GMT

UCLA and MIT Now Evaluate Admissions Candidates on the iPad

Matchbox has announced that five Admissions Offices at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MBA program at the UCLA Anderson School of Management are the first six university programs in the world to use the iPad-centric Matchbox solution that re-thinks the admissions process so that universities can focus on r...

19 December 2011
15:11 GMT

Rutgers and Tasmania University Websites Hacked by SODT (Updated)

A hacker called SODT from Doxsters.net managed to breach the defense mechanisms implemented on the websites belonging to the School of Computing and Information Systems of the University of Tasmania (utas.edu.au) and the Rutgers State University of New Jersey (Rutgers.edu). The hacker obtained access to their databa...

14 December 2011
11:07 GMT

University Lab Terminates Guest No. 8269

University of Michigan is involved in a disturbing case of animal cruelty. A perfectly healthy tabby sheltered by this institution has become a misfortunate victim in the hands of scientists eager to perform lab tests. The cats' former owners brought the creature to Michigan animal shelter, hoping it will bene...

9 December 2011
09:19 GMT

Steve Jobs’ Apple University Explained

Before coming to his end earlier this week, Steve Jobs was known to have hired dean of Yale School of Management Joel Podolny to head teaching at the Apple University.Now, an anonymous former Apple executive describes the Jobs’ intentions with the initiative:"Steve was looking to his legacy. The idea was to tak...

7 October 2011
06:02 GMT

Stanford University Starts NVIDIA CUDA Classes, Named Center of Excellence

NVIDIA's CUDA technology is something that prospective programmers have to first learn about before they can exploit, so NVIDIA entered a tight relationship with Stanford University.NVIDIA has made itself known for many things over the years, the most recent being high-end mobile graphics solutions and mobile p...

5 July 2011
10:23 GMT

Google Scans 1 Million University Library Books from CIC

Google has marked a rather important milestone in its quest to digitize the world's books and make them available to everyone. The company announced that it had finished scanning one million books from the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) university libraries. CIC is an organization made up of severa...

5 February 2011
05:56 GMT

Blackboard Mobile for Android Available for Download

Blackboard has just announced that it has expanded its Blackboard Mobile Central app for iOS to the Android platform. The company's popular campus life and services application makes its debut for Android smartphones, at Northwestern University. Android is the third mobile platform that receives the native appli...

9 November 2010
12:31 GMT

iPad Replacing Textbooks in Oklahoma State University Initiative

Oklahoma State University has announced plans to equip students with iPads, according to a report posted earlier this week. Citing Oklahoma State University President Burns Hargis, the report claims that select courses in the School of Media and Strategic Communications and the Spears School of Business at both the S...

1 July 2010
10:57 GMT

Seton Hill University Announces ‘An iPad for Everyone’

Seton Hill University, based in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, has announced that every full-time student will receive a brand-new iPad, as part of its Griffin Technology Advantage program. Every first-year undergraduate student starting that semester will not only receive the Apple tablet, but also a 13-inch MacBook. &l...

31 March 2010
09:32 GMT

Did You Know: You Could Study iPhone App Development at Your School

In case you are planning to hop aboard the iTunes App Store, first you’d better check if you’re eligible to join Apple’s free iPhone Developer University Program. Designed specifically for higher education, the program is aimed at institutions looking to introduce iPhone-app development into their c...

30 March 2010
07:00 GMT

Google Ramps Up University Research Funding

Google is a huge company that prides itself for being at the front of tech innovation. It has well over 20,000 employees and works on a myriad of new projects, many aimed at markets it doesn't have a presence in or that don't even exist yet. As such, you can imagine that the company has a lot of people in ...

2 February 2010
10:28 GMT

ACU Is Building an ‘iPad Task Force’

The student-run media staff of Abilene Christian University has announced its plans to publish the first student newspaper on Apple’s iPad. It will be the first paper of its kind, according to students and faculty members. A department has already taken the first steps to establish an iPad Task Force, according...

29 January 2010
08:45 GMT

New iPhone Development Courses at Edison Labs University

Saratoga, CA-based Edison Labs University has announced an introductory 4-day course for developers seeking to rapidly acquire the basic skills and knowledge to develop professional-level iPhone apps. Advanced courses are available as well, while the introductory course is available at a special price. If you'r...

12 January 2009
10:00 GMT

World of Warcraft Has Great Educational Value

World of Wacraft is the biggest MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) out there. With over 11 million subscribers, it is the most dominant game in the world. But this popularity came with a price, more and more journalists and social organizations have claimed that the game is too addictive and cause...

7 October 2008
16:01 GMT

Apple Announces iPhone Developer University Program

Apple has announced the official debut of its free iPhone Developer University Program. Currently available only to “accredited, higher education institutions in the United States,” the iPhone Developer University Program includes iPhone SDK, iPhone dev center resources, testing on iPhone and iPod touch, ...

23 September 2008
06:03 GMT

Dell Goes Educational with Its Mobile Lineup

United States colleges and universities are reportedly adopting Dell mobile technologies for their students. According to a Dell report, a couple of higher education customers have placed massive orders for the company's notebooks, to help 115,000 students switch to mobile computing solutions.For instance, Ivy T...

17 May 2008
05:12 GMT

Ateneo Braille System: the Visually-Impaired-Friendly Computer

A group of newly-graduated computer engineering students have unveiled a new computer prototype to help the visually-impaired users get full advantage of the digital world. Called the Ateneo Braille System, the device has entered beta-testing on March the 5th.Named after the Ateneo de Manila University, the computer ...

31 March 2008
04:53 GMT

Facebook Study Group Condemned by University

Starting a study group is something most schools, high schools and universities encourage, as it is an almost sure means of academic enlightenment for the members. Better grades and recognition, perhaps contests won are the upside for students while making a name as one of the best schools is what the learning instit...

24 March 2008
06:36 GMT

The 802.11n Challenge: Minnesota Wants the Greatest Wireless Network

The University of Minnesota is gearing up to deploy world's largest 802.11n wireless network that will cover two of its campuses at the Big Ten University. According to the university officials, the deployment will start in May and, upon completion, the network will serve no less than 80,00 staff and students.La...

11 March 2008
12:32 GMT

Free iPhone or iPod Touch For Every Freshman

Every once in a while, certain individuals tend to think about how much they would get paid if they were to do something worth paying for. If you ever thought about such things, I'm pretty sure you have never even imagined that one of those "worth paying for" things you could do is to attend an University. No it...

28 February 2008
02:05 GMT

The Kyoto University Has Ordered an AMD-Based Supercomputer

The Japanese University of Kyoto has just placed an order for an AMD Opteron-based supercomputer. The machine will be built using 416 HX600 high-performance computers built by Fujitsu. Each computer is powered by four quad-core Opteron processors, which means that the cluster totals 1,664 processors and 6,656 Opteron...

16 February 2008
07:02 GMT

Downloading Study Proved Wrong!

The study that the Motion Picture Association of America commissioned in 2005 regarding the domestic losses showed that a stunning 44 percent of those came because of illegal movie downloading done by college students. The MPAA rained fire on the colleges, urging them to limit the bandwidth or to willingly take drast...

23 January 2008
10:31 GMT

"The University of Google" Phenomenon

Research essays on Google and Wikipedia? We can't have that, said Tara Brabazon, a lecturer from the University of Brighton, who got furious with the quality of the work her students had been doing. Seeing that it was banal and mediocre exactly because it was a reflection of what search engines provided, she sto...

14 January 2008
19:06 GMT

Nuclear Reactor Opens for Study

Seemingly the U.S. government is also beginning to think about its role in the global warming effect and the energy dependency after ignoring most of the treaties regarding carbon dioxide emission reduction for the last years. As a result, the U.S. Department of Energy will make available to study a nuclear facility ...

10 December 2007
04:11 GMT

Yahoo to Share Supercomputers With Students

Yahoo's supercomputing cluster, codenamed M45, features 4,000 processors, 3 terabytes of random access memory and can do more than 27 trillion calculations per second. It is used to perform search-related tasks on the Internet, such as scanning webpages, caching them or finding a subject then creating indexes. F...

26 November 2007
04:20 GMT

Google Looking After the Youth

Can you imagine not having left home for college/university and still living with your parents? Aw, man, that would ultimately suck! It pains me to think about it...Yet Google seems to endorse this type of life style that limits to the maximum the level of socializing you could be doing and your vices that you might ...

22 November 2007
06:24 GMT

Google University! Join now!

How would you like to attend the Google University? Among the upcoming courses, there are "The Bicycle Wheel" with D. Pardo and Piaw Na, "Open Source: A Comprehensive History, With Gossip" with Chris DiBona, "Theory and Practice of Cryptography" with Stephen Weis and "You and Your Voice" with Alexander Newman.Sounds ...

21 November 2007
03:57 GMT

Full University Lectures on YouTube

The University of California, Berkeley, announced that it has created a special YouTube channel to become the first university which shares full versions of its courses on a video sharing service. Obviously, all the clips are available free of charge and can be accessed by any visitor, no matter whether they own a Yo...

17 October 2007
15:31 GMT

Google and IBM Becoming More Attractive for Students

Google and IBM announced a new initiative supported by both companies which is supposed to lure students and researchers to their technologies and get them involved into a complex software development process that might reveal better technologies for the market. The two giants will provide the entire equipment for th...

9 October 2007
15:07 GMT

Google Prepares for the Upcoming School Year

Google Apps is an extremely attractive solution for most of the Internet users looking for a powerful suite to work with their information and the universities from every corner of the world are among them. Today, the Mountain View company announced that no less than 5 universities registered for Google Apps: Univers...

17 August 2007
09:23 GMT

Universities And Supercomputers

IBM has a long standing tradition in building supercomputers and mainframes and lately their machines are likely to be the most powerful computing platforms in the whole world. Until now the most powerful supercomputer was IBM's Blue Gene model L system, but now a new and even more powerful system is on its way....

13 August 2007
11:20 GMT

Google Wants More: 10 Partners To Join The Googleplex!

The Mountain View company managed to lure 10 more partners for the Book Search technology in a move meant to bring more digitized content for the product. The Committee on Institutional Collaboration brings 10 big schools and the University of Chicago to the Google content providers, raising the total number of agree...

8 June 2007
16:11 GMT

Google's Conquest Route: Netherlands Through Belgium

Google is now aiming to become an important Dutch service as the company tends to conquer Netherlands with several partnerships in the area. The search giant made the first step today when it signed a deal with Ghent University to digitize their content and offer the books stored in their library to the entire world....

24 May 2007
05:17 GMT

Google Wants to Digitize Switzerland

Google recently managed to sign a deal with the University of Lausanne Library that will bring more digitized content for the Book Search technology. This institution is the 14th partner for Google Book Search and will offer content in several languages including French, English, German and even Japanese. "Today, we ...

16 May 2007
03:25 GMT

Hacked University Computer Might Cause Identity Theft!

The University of Missouri was recently affected by one of the most impressive hack attempts that managed to steal no more than 22.396 social security numbers. It seems that the hacker broke into the university computer and discovered private information about the students, ex-employees and the current staff of the c...

9 May 2007
13:26 GMT

University Channels on YouTube

Some time ago, when YouTube signed the deal with Chelsea FC, NBA and BBC, the company created separate channels for the firms especially meant to offer their content. Now, YouTube designs similar websites for universities, the first one being Kansas State University. The channel was revealed one month ago and record...

19 April 2007
10:43 GMT


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