Science & Engineering
- Adobe Makes ColdFusion 8 Free for Students, Educators
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9/3/2008
Adobe has made its ColdFusion 8 Web development platform free for educators and students. The offer is available for all public and private accredited K-12 schools and colleges and universities.
- ECMAScript Fight Results in 'Harmony'
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9/3/2008
The fate of ECMAScript 4 (ES4) appears to be sealed and, according to Brendan Eich, chief technical officer of Mozilla and the creator of JavaScript, so is the rift between the two factions of Ecma's Technical Committee 39, divided for a year over the future of this standard. Last month the committee officially agreed to ditch plans for the proposed ES 4.0 specification to focus on a more limited, new spec based on the current standard ECMAScript 3.1 (ES3.1).
- Report: Green Efforts Improving on Campuses
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8/26/2008
More campuses in the United States have shifted their focus to environmental and sustainability programs, but funding and staffing issues have prevented them from implementing green initiatives on the scale campus administrators would like, according to a new report released recently by the National Wildlife Federation.
- Sun Open Sources Mobile Toolkit LWUIT
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8/25/2008
Sun Microsystems has fulfilled a promise made this summer to release the source code for the Java ME-based light-weight UI toolkit (LWUIT) for mobile UI development to the java.net community.
- 'That Which Weaves Together': The NSF Cyberlearning Report
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8/20/2008
Trent Batson takes a look at the National Science Foundation's Report of the NSF Task Force on Cyberlearning, "Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge."
- AT&T 'Big Mobile' Grant Extended
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8/19/2008
AT&T has extended the deadline for its first-ever Big Mobile On Campus Challenge, a competition that calls on college and university faculty and students to develop apps for mobile devices. The top prize includes $10,000 and a trip to the October Educause 2008 conference for the winning individual or team.
- U Colorado and Quest Get $1 Million Grant for New Digitally Controlled Endoscopes
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8/14/2008
The University of Colorado at Boulder and Quest Product Development have been awarded a $1 million Small Business Technology Transfer grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue the development of a next-generation endoscope. MicroFlex technology, derived from aerospace engineering, uses shape metal alloys and micro-actuators that allow active control over the shape of the scope for minimally invasive surgery.
- U Toronto Team Wins 2008 Innovate Canada Competition
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8/12/2008
A team of students from the University of Toronto took first place in the IEEE "Innovate Canada Program" contest by creating an object-recognition system. The university competition challenges students to use embedded processors, a variety of custom field programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware modules, and combined hardware and software co-design methods to create embedded systems.
- Eclipse 'Lynchpin' for Maven
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8/11/2008
Eclipse developers will soon have an easier time integrating with Maven, the popular Java open source build framework.
- Terracotta Integrates Sun's VisualVM
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8/11/2008
Java enterprise infrastructure software maker Terracotta recently announced it will soon be integrating Sun Microsystems' new Java VisualVM technology with the Terracotta management console.
- IBM Touts Linux Strategy with New Virt, SuSE, Supercomputer Intiatives
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8/8/2008
IBM made several announcements Tuesday at the annual LinuxWorld conference, introducing a new series of products, services and initiatives that the company says will "further expand IBM's commitment to Linux and open source by enabling the next generation of Linux."
- Sun To Open Source Java System Web Server and Web Proxy Technologies
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8/5/2008
Sun Microsystems recently said it will soon open source the core components of Sun Java System Web Proxy and Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 under the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license. The Web and Proxy source code will be released later this year.
- U Illinois Urbana-Champaign To Establish Experimental Computing Cluster
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8/5/2008
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is collaborating with the National Science Foundation, HP, Intel, and Yahoo! to establish an experimental computing cluster. The resulting "HP, Intel, Yahoo! Cloud Computing Test Bed" will be managed by UIUC and made available to academic users from other institutions for research in data-intensive computing.
- University of Utah Named CUDA Center of Excellence
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8/4/2008
The University of Utah last week was named a CUDA Center of Excellence for adopting parallel computing strategies and applying them to research and integrating them into the curriculum.
- Model-Driven Development Cuts the Coding
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8/4/2008
Want to build custom Web applications without writing a single line of code? That's the promise of Model-Driven Development (MDD), and the objective of Intelliun's MDD-based Virtual Enterprise (VE) toolset.
- MIT Researchers Take Solar Power Where the Sun Doesn't Shine
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8/4/2008
Researchers at MIT announced last week that they've cracked the solar power nut by finding a method to squirrel away energy for use when the sun isn't shining. Unlike existing techniques, this new one is efficient, inexpensive, and clean, researchers said, relying on resources that are abundant and lend themselves to easy manufacture.
- Colorado State-Pueblo To Install Megawatt Solar Electric System
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7/31/2008
Colorado State University-Pueblo soon will be the home of a solar electric system in excess of one megawatt, one of the largest such systems for an education facility in the United States. Under an innovative arrangement with Black Hills Energy (formerly Aquila) and BP Solar, the system is estimated to contribute at least 10 percent of the University's electricity needs. Installation of the ground- based solar array begins this summer with full operation scheduled for late fall.
- University of Minnesota Solar Car Team Begins Cross-country Race
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7/17/2008
The University of Minnesota Solar Vehicle Project--one of the first teams to meet all the qualifications for racing in the 2008 North American Solar Challenge--hit the road on July 13 in a 2,400-mile race from Texas to Canada that ends July 22. The team will be posting updates throughout the race.
- ASU Establishes Solar Power Lab
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7/15/2008
In response to the Arizona Board of Regents' Solar Energy Initiative, Arizona State University (ASU) announced last Friday that it is establishing a Solar Power Laboratory. The university also announced it has brought on Christiana Honsberg, Stuart Bowden, and George Maracas to help lead the venture.
- New U Arizona Prefetching Scheme Saves Computing Time, Energy
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7/14/2008
Most desktop computers today, when not in use, power down their hard drives to save energy. While this may be very green, it also incurs minor, though sometimes frustrating, delays. Waiting up to eight seconds for a hard drive to power back up to fetch some document is not the best use of any office worker's time. So two University of Arizona researchers have sussed out a way to save energy and keep data coming quickly, through a concept they call context-aware prefetching.
- U of Technology Sydney and Agilent Establish Metallomics Facility
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7/14/2008
The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has partnered with Agilent Technologies, which produces analytical instrumentation, to establish a research facility to study trace metals and other elements in tissue, and their effects on health.
- Spring Gets Expanded Java Annotation Support
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7/11/2008
When writing a complex Java program filled with many interlocking objects, any automation of routine tasks can be a big help. So Java developers using the Java Spring framework should welcome recent additional support for annotations, which could take care of many mundane construction and configuration duties. Spring is an open source collection of components for developing Java Enterprise Edition-based applications.
- Research Center for PlayStation 3 Processor Gains Continued Support at Georgia Tech
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7/11/2008
The Georgia Tech College of Computing said that sponsors for one of its research centers have renewed their support. Sony, Toshiba, and IBM initially funded the STI Center of Competence with $320,000 in 2006 to do research into further uses for a new type of microprocessor that initially appeared in Sony's PlayStation 3 game console.
- Indiana U, Wayne State Teams Capture Wins in Imagine Cup 2008
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7/8/2008
Winners of the 2008 Imagine Cup technology competition were announced Tuesday in Paris. Student teams from American universities took top honors in two categories and earned achievement awards in other areas. Microsoft, which hosted the event, said it was the most successful run for American teams in the Cup's six-year history.
- Vernier Offers Free Software, Plays with Legos, Goes Green For Education
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7/2/2008
Data collection technology provider Vernier Software & Technology has announced several new offerings for the education market, including free Logger Lite and LabQuest Emulator software, a new NXT sensor adapter for Lego Mindstorms NXT robots, and free eco-friendly classroom activities.
