Hardware/Infrastructure
- Open Source Excellence at UC Santa Cruz
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8/8/2007
Sun Microsystems has named the University of California, Santa Cruz as its first OpenSPARC Center of Excellence.
- Apple Upgrades iMac Line
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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.
- VMware Releases Fusion for Mac
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8/7/2007
VMware has released Fusion for Mac OS X. The software, based on VMware's desktop virtualization technology, allows Apple's Intel-based systems to run software written for multiple OSes simultaneously.
- NACUBO Names Baylor for Innovation Award
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8/2/2007
The National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) in Washington, DC awarded Baylor University (Waco, TX) a 2007 Innovation Award for resource enhancement for the school's for its efforts to cut its power costs.
- Polycom Intros HD Conferencing System
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7/26/2007
Communications technology developer Polycom this week introduced its forthcoming HDX 4000, a videoconferencing and collaboration system that includes high-definition capabilities. It's expected to ship in the fourth quarter.
- Bull Durham: Duke WiFi Outage Leads to iPhone Outrage
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7/23/2007
The media's search for iPhone flaws maintained its pace last week when Duke University's wireless local area network (WLAN) jammed for 10 to 15 minutes, apparently the result of newly commissioned iPhones inundating the university's Cisco wireless network servers.
- CMU Takes RoboCup 2007 on Penalties
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7/17/2007
In a pair of matches whose excitement level had to be measured in degrees Kelvin, Carnegie Mellon University last week took home gold and bronze from the 2007 RoboCup competition in Atlanta. RoboCup, sponsored by the RoboCup Federation, is a research initiative that pits teams of robots against one another in league-based soccer matches. CMU took first and third place in the Small-Size Robot League and the Four-Legged Robot League, respectively. Both were won on penalty kicks.
- Arrive Launches Campus Manager
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7/12/2007
Arrive Corp., an ICT/AV technology provider that recently launched in North America, has debuted two facilities management tools targeted toward higher education: Campus Manager and Easy Conference.
- Classroom Support at UNCC Goes Both Ways
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7/5/2007
A simple two-way digital intercom system installed in classrooms at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has greatly reduced the support department's response time. And although it hasn't been used for an emergency yet, the intercom system can also serve to instantly broadcast a single message to all or some classrooms at once.
- Technology for the Physical Plant: Building Smarts
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7/5/2007
Let's face it: Most people don’t need Al Gore to convince them that the Earth’s environment has been changing significantly in the last few years. Sure, the former vice president and presidential candidate educated everyone with his 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, but with Hurricane Katrina, rising temperatures, and shrinking snows atop Kilimanjaro, evidence of something climatically amiss is all around us. Some call these weird atmospheric events “global warming,” others a natural “Little Ice Age” cycle; but whatever you call it, the evidence of change is irrefutable. Compounding the situation, energy costs are higher than ever before. In some states, particularly those in the northeastern US, energy costs have doubled in the last three or four years. Does this spell disaster for institutions of higher education? Maybe not: Many colleges and universities are doing their part to react to these challenges without breaking the bank.
- UMD Researchers Build Single-Chip Supercomputer
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7/3/2007
University of Maryland researchers have developed a new technology they describe as a "single-chip supercomputer prototype," which would be capable of speeds 100 times faster than current desktops. It is based on parallel processing on a single chip.
- Student Ambassadors for Open Source
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6/29/2007
A conversation with Dinesh Bahal about the Campus Ambassador Program at Sun Microsystems.
- U Missouri Expands E-Mail Infrastructure
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6/14/2007
University of Missouri recently revamped its Microsoft Exchange messaging environment with the help of EMC Corporation's products and services. According to EMC, the IT department at the university has reworked its infrastructure, allowing for a 500 percent increase in employees' mailbox quotas and 100 percent increase in students' mailbox quotas.
- Building for Student Success
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6/13/2007
San Jose State University AVP Mary Jo Gorney-Moreno comments on the process of creating a high-tech student success center on campus.
- UC Profs See Car Traffic as Basis of a Mobile Internet
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6/4/2007
Computer scientists at UCLA are working on a project to use moving cars as nodes in a network to create literally a mobile mobile network.
- Culture Morph
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6/1/2007
Technologists and librarians are discovering that intelligent organizational overlap is the route to the digital library of the future.
- Georgia Tech Workshop To Explore Cell/B.E.
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5/31/2007
Georgia Tech's College of Computing will host a workshop on the Cell Broadband Engine. The workshop will be held June 18 and 19 and will focus on a wide range of topics, from gaming and home entertainment to high-performance scientific and technical computing.
- A New Dimension in 'Printing'
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5/17/2007
What's a 3D Printer? If you already know, then you are probably like my editor, who wrote to me: "I freaking love those printers. The first one that comes down below $1k, I'm buying. I don't care that I have no use for one."
- Apple MacBooks Get Speed, Memory, Networking Upgrades
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5/15/2007
Apple's entry-level series of notebook computers--the MacBook--today received performance improvements across the board, including processor speed, memory, hard drive capacity, and networking. The new models are shipping now, with education pricing set below $1,000 on the low end.
- NC State-IBM Virtual Computing Project Bearing Fruit
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5/15/2007
North Carolina State University said a partnership it formed seven months ago with IBM Corp. to offer unused computer cycles via the Internet to higher ed and K-12 institutions for learning and research projects is starting to bear fruit.
- Campus IT Departments Grapple with Vista
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5/9/2007
At colleges, universities, and K-12 institutions, IT decision makers are increasingly showing concern over performance, patching, and hardware requirements of Microsoft Windows Vista. At the same time, the number of organizations using or evaluating Vista has increased to 29 percent, up 8 percent since October 2006. This according to a new survey conducted by Walker Information and released this week by CDW Corp.
- U New Hampshire Lab Demos at iWarp Interoperability
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5/8/2007
The University of New Hampshire successfully demonstrated multi-vendor interoperability between iWARP devices, which it claimed was an industry first.
- IBM Grants Mainframe to U Arkansas as Teaching Platform
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5/8/2007
IBM is providing the University of Arkansas' Walton College of Business access to its IBM System z900 mainframe and software in an effort to promote curriculum development on mainframe hardware systems.
- University of Texas Profs, Students Unveil High-Speed Chip
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5/7/2007
University of Texas computer science professors and graduate students have produced a prototype high-performance processor capable of scaling to trillions of calculations per second.
- Voices from the Sky: The Technology Is the Easy Part
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5/3/2007
So, you go out and purchase a communications system that will alert tens of thousands of people simultaneously in a crisis situation using ... text messages ... e-mail ... loudspeaker systems ... whatever.
