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IBM, universities team up on cloud project
News IBM on Monday announced that it has partnered with three universities to develop one of the first cloud-computing platforms in the Middle East. Five pilot application projects will include oil and gas seismic modelling and exploration; Arabic...
[January 27, 2009, 15:34]
Universities highlight IT forensics boom
News Universities offering postgraduate courses for IT professionals claim to be seeing increasing interest in computer forensics skills, both from employers and from applicants. Both universities offer courses in IT security.
[April 24, 2007, 17:08]
Universities leading search research
News A big source of new ideas comes out of universities," said Geoff Yang, a venture capitalist at Redpoint Ventures, which has backed such companies as AskJeeves and TiVo. The project is one of many efforts at US universities designed to address the...
[August 16, 2005, 11:40]
Universities win funding to model cyberterrorism
News The National Science Foundation, working with the Department of Homeland Security, has granted $5.46m (£3.27m) to two Californian universities to develop a cyber-war test bed aimed at bettering Internet security, the universities announced on...
[October 16, 2003, 12:00]
Cloud delivers silver lining for UK universities
News Two UK universities have each saved hundreds of thousands of pounds by opting for hosted Google applications instead of an in-house system. The two universities are among a number of academic institutions using Google Apps, including Leeds...
[March 2, 2009, 16:47]
Intel and universities team to create super-Internet
News Other participants include Hewlett-Packard Labs, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Cornell University, Rice University, and universities in Israel, China, England, Sweden, Taiwan and Germany.
[June 24, 2003, 7:32]
Records Management Best Practices: Five Considerations for Colleges and Universities
White Papers Obviously, colleges and universities have to address compliance mandates. Educational institutions often operate in a heterogeneous records environment-they need to manage both paper and electronic documents.
[June 19, 2009, 1:20]
American Colleges and Universities
Downloads American Colleges and Universities app contain database of more than 8000 USA colleges and universities. You can find detailed information about institution in the U.S.that has been accredited for post-secondary education, including universities...
[August 28, 2009, 6:31]
Russian Universities Use Portals to Improve Standardization and the Learning Process
White Papers Universities use these portals to provide high-quality learning materials, improve teacher productivity, and automate interactions between headquarters and regional branches. CROC, based in Moscow, is a leading Russian systems integrator with more...
[July 25, 2009, 1:18]
Australian universities call on IT industry for aid
News Australian universities are calling on IT vendors to make a greater investment in the education sector to tackle the skills crisis. If you had any doubts about the extent of the IT skills crisis, said Patrick Woods, deputy vice chancellor at Sydney...
[August 22, 2007, 9:15]
US universities delay unmasking file-swappers
News Some universities are balking at stepped up demands from the recording industry to unmask alleged student file swappers, citing procedural uncertainties over an avalanche of subpoenas filed with the courts in recent weeks.
[July 23, 2003, 11:18]
Universities launch e-book experiment
News When students at Princeton University, the University of Utah and eight other colleges start combing their school bookstore shelves for fall semester textbooks, they'll find a new alternative to the hard-covered tomes they're used to buying.
[August 10, 2005, 18:10]
German universities embrace Linux
News The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has selected Novell for the supply of its IT infrastructure, which will support 33 universities in the region. The universities serve 560,000 students and thousands of employees.
[August 29, 2007, 16:25]
Serving Up Healthy, Spam-Free Email at One of the Nation's Top Universities
White Papers Founded in 1876, the Johns Hopkins University was the first research university in the United States. University was tasked with complying with regulatory requirements, principally the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and...
[February 21, 2009, 0:24]
Backhaul of Voice and Data From Mobile/Wireless Networks Over IP/Ethernet Infrastructure Provides Substantial Cost Savings for European Universities
White Papers The customer needed a cost-effective, efficient method for the integration and aggregation of mobile/wireless traffic, both voice and data, over an IP/Ethernet network. Axerra's expertise in the aggregation, adaptation, and IP service interworking...
[March 22, 2005, 23:00]
US Report: Gore takes the wraps off 'Internet2' initiative
News The network links 100 universities and a handful of other schools, and was created with $500M (£297.2M) in funding from universities and high-tech giants including Cisco, 3Com and MCI Internet 2 can transmit all 30 volumes of the Encyclopaedia...
[April 15, 1998, 8:47]
Cisco High-Performance Computing InfiniBand and Ethernet Networks and the IBM System Cluster 1350 Lowers Costs, Improves Systems and Halves ROI Period
White Papers Cineca is a consortium of 31 universities plus the CNR (the National Research Council) and the Ministry of University and Research. The solution provides 10-gigabit InfiniBand connectivity with support for more than half a petabyte of data and will...
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
Microsoft funds secure code-writing course
News In the second of a string of collaborations between Microsoft and universities in the UK, the University of Leeds has received partial funding to teach would-be developers to write secure code. Dr Nick Efford, who is designing the syllabus, said it...
[March 24, 2003, 13:55]
Hollywood chases down campus pirates
News Trade groups for the movie and recording industries are putting new pressure on universities to crack down on file-swapping by students using high-speed campus networks. We are concerned that an increasing and significant number of students are...
[October 11, 2002, 7:54]
US researchers claim vast data-density increase
News Researchers at two US universities say they have developed a technique that could result in storage densities of 10 terabits per square inch. For more than a decade researchers have been trying to exploit this characteristic for use in...
[February 23, 2009, 16:30]
