Events
Campus Technology 2009
July 27 - 30, 2009
Boston, MA
Campus Technology 2008
July 28 - 31, 2008
Boston, MA
8/30/2007
Software on demand provider Velaro is ramping up its Academic Live Help Initiative by making its services available to the higher ed community as a whole. The company currently provides live help services to a number of universities.
8/29/2007
The George Washington University and the University of San Francisco has deployed data security using Utimaco Safeware's SafeGuard offerings.
8/29/2007
AVerMedia Technologies, a provider of multimedia and presentation tools, is launching a new contest for students, instructors, and administrators, calling on them to produce videos describing compelling classroom experiences made possible through the use of document cameras. The contest, dubbed the AVerVision Video Contest, is open to all North American K-12 schools, colleges, and universities.
8/29/2007
Florida's Saint Leo University will deploy a campus-wide WiFi network powered by technology from Xirrus, which will serve more than 14,000 students, educators, and staff.
8/29/2007
LectureShare has debuted its free online course management system (CMS) at lectureshare.com, which lets instructors upload class announcements, documents, and audio and video files.
8/28/2007
An internal review of Virginia Tech's information and communications infrastructure in the wake of the April shootings found that the campus telecommunication systems were "dramatically stressed during the initial response period but performed adequately," according to a report in The Roanoke Times.
8/28/2007
Anystream this week acquired lecture capture technology provider Lectopia and added it to its higher education division, Apreso. The two units will be combined to form a new entity called Echo360, which will focus on lecture capture and dissemination.
8/28/2007
University of California, Berkeley has mounted a publicity campaign to warn its incoming freshman class of the consequences of downloading copyrighted music. The message of the campaign is "Learn Before You Burn" and is directed at the 95 percent of incoming freshman who own computers and may have not been aware that most music is not, in fact, free.
8/28/2007
William Wulf, who received the University of Virginia's first doctorate in computer science and who spent 11 years as president of the National Academy of Engineering, is returning to U.Va.'s Charlottesville campus to teach.
8/28/2007
The National Science Foundation has awarded a University of North Texas computer science professor a half-million dollar grant to study the performance and behaviors of student software development work groups, the university announced.
8/27/2007
The University of Maryland-Baltimore County and IBM said they would collaborate to build a facility dedicated to research on aerospace, defense, financial services, medical imaging, and weather/climate change prediction.
8/27/2007
The Association for Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA) picked the University of Notre Dame as the winner of its Institutional Excellence in Communications Technology Award. The honor was bestowed for ND's approach to upgrading its wireless infrastructure.
8/27/2007
A Stanford University researcher has developed a system that advances "gaze-based" computing, enabling a person to use eye movements to interact with computers and surf the Web.
8/27/2007
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign computer science professor Klara Nahrstedt was picked as chairman of one of the newest of the Association of Computing Machinery's famous special interest groups, this one focusing on advanced multimedia applications.
8/23/2007
A new service has been launched to help instructors in both higher education and K-12 institutions detect plagiarized work submitted by students. The service, DOC Cop, is an entirely Web-based tool that provides free and automated assistance in locating "source material" (ahem) used in assignments submitted to teachers.
8/23/2007
The University of Tennessee Volunteers football team has upped its game by being the first to apply the the PlayAction Simulator from XOS Technologies.
8/23/2007
Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana is deploying a new emergency alert system for its Indianapolis campus. The system will be used to "instantly notify students and staff in the Indianapolis metro area of emergencies, weather alerts, closings, and even class-related information," according to a release issued by Ivy Tech.
8/22/2007
8/22/2007
Replacing a Jenzabar ERP system, LeTourneau University will use CampusVue Collegiate from Campus Management to administer its enrollment, advising, and student services.
8/22/2007
The State University of New York-Maritime College this fall will debut two new online courses developed in collaboration with The History Channel. Both courses are to be based around History Channel television series and will be offered for credit, marking the first time The History Channel has developed a course for college credit.
8/22/2007
With the possible exception of the Bluegrass State's most cunning hot rodders, Bo and Luke Duke, the University of Kentucky's Parking and Transportation Services (PTS) department should be nabbing more drivers with multiple unpaid tickets.
8/21/2007
The Library of Congress announced $2.5 million in grants for projects to establish digital format standards for preserving photos, films, music, and video games. The funding covers eight organizations involved in significant digital content projects, including UCLA's Film and Television Archive and the "Preserving Virtual Worlds" project at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
8/21/2007
The National Science Foundation approved $208 million in funding to build the world's most powerful supercomputer. The "Blue Waters" project, undertaken by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will build a machine capable of more than one quadrillion operations per second, or a "petaflop."
8/21/2007
Researchers at the U.K.'s Bath University have developed a tool that uses the unique electronic IDs of Bluetooth devices, such as a mobile phone, to map the physical paths of friendship networks, the BBC reported.
8/21/2007
Graduate students from the University of Minnesota's computer science and engineering departments hosted middle school students last week. The five-day high-tech camp attracted 30 students from Minneapolis and St. Paul who created 3D movies, programmed robotic dogs, and digitally altered the sound of their own voices.
Campus Technology 2009
July 27 - 30, 2009
Boston, MA
Campus Technology 2008
July 28 - 31, 2008
Boston, MA
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