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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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