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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.

Facebook Becoming Malware Magnet, Experts Warn

8/9/2007

Popular college social networking website Facebook attracts thousands of developers wanting to enrich its functionality. But in the process it has become a magnet for malware, according to experts from the security firm VeriSign.

RedSky Launches Campus Alert Tool

8/9/2007

Automated E911 provider RedSky Technologies (Chicago, IL) has released Broadcast Alert, a tool to help emergency and security personnel reach higher education campuses and school districts with emergency and alert messages.

Security Student Video Contest Winners Picked

8/9/2007

A group of higher education computer security groups announced the winners of a computer security awareness student video contest, which is part of a national awareness campaign to help tighten computer security at colleges and universities.

U Denver Hosts Student Peace Talks via HD Link

8/9/2007

The University of Denver, in partnership with RJ Macklin and Associates, today will host "peace talks" between students in Israel and Iraq. The twist: The talks will be conducted via high-definition videoconferencing. The technology is being supplied by LifeSize, a developer of HD communications tools.

College Tookit Offering Simple Tuition Loan Search Tool

8/9/2007

Online higher education information provider College Toolkit (Brooklyn, NY) has partnered with SimpleTuition (Newton, MA) to provide online research tools to help students and parents visiting collegetookit.com analyze and compare student loan options using Simple Tuition's service.

U Virginia To Host Supercomputing 'Bootcamp' for Faculty

8/8/2007

The University of Virginia is doing its part to get the word out that computational science--the use of massive parallel processors and supercomputers to explore nature's knottiest complexities--is the key to economic competitiveness for the United States.

Open Source Excellence at UC Santa Cruz

8/8/2007

Sun Microsystems has named the University of California, Santa Cruz as its first OpenSPARC Center of Excellence.

3 Universities Join Cancer Testing Device Trial

8/8/2007

Waco, TX-based Baylor University, Pennsylvania's University of Pittsburgh, and Ohio's University of Cincinnati have joined biopharmaceutical research and medical device company Chicago, IL-based CytoCore's current clinical trial of the e2 Collector, a medical device for detecting and treating reproductive-tract cancers.

CLIR Appoints Michael Keller Senior Presidential Fellow

8/8/2007

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has announced the appointment of Stanford University librarian Michael Keller as CLIR Senior Presidential Fellow.

Cognos, Exeter Help NACUBO Universities Compare Tuition Strategies

8/8/2007

Business intelligence and performance management firm Cognos and higher ed IT consultants Exeter Group have helped the Washington, DC-based National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) add an application to its website that will help higher education administrators compare tuition discount strategies.

CERNET To Deploy VoiceEngine

8/8/2007

China Educational Research Network (CERNET), China's IPV6 fiber optic network for education and research, will deploy VoiceEngine from Global IP Solutions (San Francisco, CA)) to improve voice quality for tis Digital Media Service, which connects more than 20 million chinese students and 3 million faculty and staff at more than 1,500 universities.

Apple Upgrades iMac Line

8/7/2007

Apple CEO Steve Jobs today introduced the company's new lineup of all in one iMac systems, replacing the previous lineup. The new models come in two form factors: one with a 20-inch screen, one with a 24-inch screen. Both now sport aluminum enclosures like the Mac Pro and MacBook Pro systems. The new systems are based around Intel's latest Core 2 Duo processors running at clock speeds up to 2.8 GHz.

Google Offers Researchers a 'Drink from the Fire Hose'

8/7/2007

Google Inc. announced it would make two new services available to the higher education research community--access to Web search and machine translations--as part of a new University Research Programs effort. The search firm made the announcement at its higher ed Faculty Summit held July 26 to 27 in Mountain View, CA.