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HEWAC Throws Support Behind M2Z Networks

8/16/2007

The Higher Education Wireless Access Consortium has recently thrown its support behind the M2Z Network's license application to the FCC. M2Z networks have been working on using radio airwaves to provide a national wireless Internet free to consumers. The proposal is for M2Z to forgo the normal auction for radio waves and instead to pay the national treasury 5 percent of revenues every year for 15 years. The estimated total of the 5 percent would equal more than $1 billion over the allocated time span.

Experts Explain How Students Can Protect Data

8/16/2007

As Fall semester approaches, higher education institutions will be exposed to further risk as an influx of new student PCs and laptops make their way onto campuses nationwide.

UP Deploys Secure File Transfer for Faculty, Students

8/16/2007

The University of Portland has rolled out South River technologies' GroupDrive to let its 3,200 students and faculty securely share and collaborate on files across the 'Net.

Blackboard Debuts Anti-Plagiarism Technology for LMS

8/15/2007

Blackboard this week debuted a new tool called SafeAssign, which is designed to eliminate plagiarism in student assignments. The service detects plagiarized works in student papers and delivers reports on such incidents through the Blackboard Learning System.

Columbia Southern U Launches Social Networking for Alumni

8/15/2007

Columbia Southern University has launched a new online service for its alumni. Dubbed "CSU Click," the service provides social networking functionality for the school's graduates at no charge.

Research: College Students Use Internet for Education ... Huh

8/15/2007

Whatever else your students are doing on the Internet, they are using it for educational purposes as well. According to a study released last week by Houghton Mifflin, more than half of college students use the Internet "to keep up with course work and prepare for exams."

Forecast: Future Looks Bright for Dim Projectors

8/15/2007

According to a forecast released last week by display market research firm Pacific Media Associates, the market for pocket projectors and other miniature projection devices is set for a very bright future, though the devices themselves typically offer fewer than 500 lumens of brightness.

U Oklahoma Taps Day for Content Management

8/15/2007

The University of Oklahoma will deploy Day Software's Communiqué, an enterprise Web content management suite, to help revamp the school's various portals for students, staff, and alumni.

Clemson U Admitted to High-Speed Network Fraternity

8/14/2007

Clemson University has established a direct fiber link between Clemson, Greenville, Atlanta, and Charlotte, giving researchers direct access to the National LambdaRail, Internet2, and other national and international research networks, according to a report in the HPCWire newsletter.

Yahoo! To Open Illinois Office To Tap Engineering Talent

8/14/2007

Yahoo! will open an office in University of Illinois's home town of Urbana-Champaign. The office, which will pursue a cross-section of the Web giant's operations and business interests, will employ about 100 engineers, according to Ken Timmons, vice president of operations for Yahoo!

Internship Lets CS Students Pitch Proposals to VC Firm

8/14/2007

Three teams of University of Illinois computer science students are spending the summer trying to launch their own companies with the help of an internship that requires them to pitch their own software or web based services to potential investors.

MIT OpenCourseWare Chief Named Massachusetts CIO

8/14/2007

Anne, Margulies, the executive director of MIT's groundbreaking OpenCourseWare initiative, has been named chief information officer and assistant secretary of the Executive Office of Administration and Finance of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Profs Building Open-Source Educational Gaming Engine

8/13/2007

Washington State University Vancouver professor Scott Wallace and University of Puget Sound computer science professor Andrew Nierman were recently awarded a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to build a gaming engine designed to make learning computer science more absorbing for students.

Marshall U Team Works on Computer Vision Navigation

8/13/2007

Three Marshall University computer science students and faculty are working on a project to build a sensor suite for the United States Navy to be used on autonomous marine vehicles.

University of Louisville Names Psychologist as CIO

8/13/2007

The University of Louisville has named Priscilla Hancock, currently vice chancellor for information technology at the University of Alabama, as its next chief information officer and vice president for information technology.

Harvard Net Admin: Don't Do Banking From Starbucks

8/13/2007

The head of Harvard University's network operations told state legislators last week that electronic eavesdroppers currently have the upper hand in the battle to secure wireless Internet networks, the Associated Press reported.

Oxford Study: Public Has False Sense of 'Net Security

8/10/2007

A study by Oxford University researchers of Internet usage in the UK shows that the British public generally underestimates the degree to which they are at risk during electronic transactions. The study, titled "The Internet in Britain: 2007," was conducted by the Oxford Internet Institute, which studies the social context of Internet usage.

Carleton Student Awarded Best Paper on 'Usable Security'

8/10/2007

Sonia Chiasson, a Ph.D. student in computer science at the Human Oriented Technology Lab (HotLab) at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, was awarded the prize for best paper at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) at CMU.

European Union Sponsors Global Malware Study

8/10/2007

The European Union has awarded a group of academic and commercial researchers a $7.1 million grant to analyze data on global malware activity and trends, according to Stephano Zanero, a researcher at the Italian university Politecno de Milano, who is helping lead the three-year project.

Penn State Researcher Posts Marine Corps SSNs

8/10/2007

A Penn State researcher in June accidentally posted the names and personal data of about 8,400 United States Marines, the university confirmed last week.

UNC Research: Malware Now a Sophisticated Industry

8/10/2007

A study by a criminal justice professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has found that selling malware has become a sophisticated business supported by advertising, marketing, and support services. UNCC Assistant Professor Thomas Holt said the study was based on research on 30 different hacker forums around the world but focused on six forums, including ones hosted in eastern Europe.

UC Davis Concludes E-Voting Systems Hackable

8/10/2007

A report by the University of California, Davis has found three electronic voting machines being considered for California state polling are susceptible to both physical and electronic tampering from tools ranging from screw drivers to Trojan horse programs.

Apple Patches iPhone Bug Found by Hopkins Alum

8/10/2007

Apple has issued 48 software patches for a raft of applications, including its hot-selling iPhone and the Web browser Safari (for Windows).

Stolen Yale Computers Contained 10,000 SSNs

8/9/2007

According to the Yale Daily News, Yale University alerted 10,000 current and past students, as well as 200 staff, that two computers stolen from the College Dean's Office July 17 contained their social security numbers.

e2Campus Now Broadcasts Messages to Alertus Beacons

8/9/2007

Mass notification system maker Omnilert has partnered with Alertus Technologies to let the e2Campus higher education alert system broadcast messages to Alertus Technologies Notification Beacons.