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Saturday, January 30th, 2010Missing Information-Science Professor Is Found, Reported Healthy
Philip Agre, a former computer-science professor at UCLA whose disappearance sparked an online search effort, was located and is safe, according to a police report.
The bulletin said the scholar “was located by LA County Sheriff’s Department on January 16, 2010 and
Google Book Search Settlement 2.0: the Latest Scorecard
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Google Book Search Settlement 2.0: the Latest Scorecard
We hope you enjoyed a holiday break from news of the Google Book Search settlement. A month into the new year, though, it’s time to check back in with the case. January 28 was the deadline to file objections to the revised version. Denny Chin, the federal district [...]
University Dance Group Uses Twitter, Wii for Latest Performances
Saturday, January 30th, 2010University Dance Group Uses Twitter, Wii for Latest Performances
Washington and Lee University dancers Anna Rogers (kneeling), Stephanie Brown (standing, left), Jennifer Ritter (standing, center) and Hannah Kate Mitchell pose with Wii remotes, which they used to transfer their motions into sounds during several performances.
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Maryland Higher-Ed Commission Won’t Reconsider Ruling in Online Turf Battle
Friday, January 29th, 2010Maryland Higher-Ed Commission Won’t Reconsider Ruling in Online Turf Battle
The Maryland Higher Education Commission has decided not to reconsider its decision to bar University of Maryland University College from offering an online community-college administration degree to in-state residents, The Sun of Baltimore reports.
The commission had ruled that the program would duplicate a similar offering at [...]
StopBadware Spins Off From Harvard U. to Be a Stand-Alone Nonprofit Group
Friday, January 29th, 2010StopBadware Spins Off From Harvard U. to Be a Stand-Alone Nonprofit Group
Just over four years ago, Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society started a project to experiment with ways to combat malicious software. Leaders of the project, called StopBadware, announced this week that it now stands alone as a nonprofit organization. Google, PayPal, [...]
Elsevier Introduces New Features for Online Health-Science Textbooks
Friday, January 29th, 2010Elsevier Introduces New Features for Online Health-Science Textbooks
A leading publisher in health-science textbooks is the latest to add interactive tools to online books and one of the first to offer e-textbooks without an expiration date.
Elsevier introduced the Pageburst service this week, with interactive features such as social networking, integrated multimedia, and incorporated grade-book tools. Daniel [...]
Diagnosing the Tablet Fever in Higher Education
Friday, January 29th, 2010Diagnosing the Tablet Fever in Higher Education
Tablet-style computers could be game-changers for colleges, bringing in a new era of classroom collaboration and pushing the adoption of electronic textbooks over a tipping point. Today’s announcement by Apple Inc. of the iPad tablet has education watchers predicting a wave of student purchases, major textbook publishers rejoicing, and [...]
The Cost of Data Breaches Is Rising, Study Finds
Thursday, January 28th, 2010The Cost of Data Breaches Is Rising, Study Finds
A new report this week found that the average cost of a data breach at U.S. institutions last year was the highest it has been since the study began, five years ago.
The study, by the Ponemon Institute, was based on data gathered from 45 organizations, including some [...]
Researchers Develop a More Accurate Spam Filter
Thursday, January 28th, 2010Researchers Develop a More Accurate Spam Filter
California researchers have developed a system they believe could stop the most common kind of spam from reaching people’s in boxes.
Most spam e-mail messages are transmitted using a few infected computers that use a template-based system. The new system works by analyzing the small changes in messages that spammers [...]
Colleges See 17 Percent Increase in Online Enrollment
Thursday, January 28th, 2010Colleges See 17 Percent Increase in Online Enrollment
Colleges saw a 17 percent increase in online enrollment, with more than one in four students taking at least one online course in the fall of 2008, according to the findings of an annual survey published on Tuesday by the Sloan Consortium.
The growth rate eclipsed last year’s 12-percent [...]