Tag archive: University

A group of U.S. universities has banded together in an effort to bring ultra high-speed broadband access to their respective surrounding communities. The project is called Gig.U, is 29 Universities strong and aims to provide speeds of up to 1Gbps to researchers as well as residents in the vicinity of these higher learning hubs. The plan, announced Wednesday, is to draw high-tech start-ups to these university areas. The target sectors are… Read More

Major corporations have begun sponsoring college classes and graduate-level research in exchange for blog posts, tweets, status updates and custom-made YouTube videos, reports the Wall Street Journal. The brands making their way into the classroom include such names as Fox Sports Net, Sprint Nextel, Levi Strauss & Co and Mattel Inc. These sponsorships sometimes involve companies providing funding to the university at large, or the sharing of… Read More

Launched yesterday at the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference in Long Beach, Singularity University is going to be an institution with a difference. Its chancellor will be futurist Ray Kurzweil, whose 2005 book gave the place its name. It will be housed at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, and Google has donated $1 million to help fund it, while other big companies have also given money. But the… Read More

Poor Dr. Tom McMaster. All the lecturer in business management at Salford University wanted to do was sail his boat to a conference in Galway, Ireland, rather than fly. Little did he imagine that it would all end up in court. He had the university’s permission to travel that way, and so he submitted an expense claim for $360. But, according to Vnunet, the accounts department responded: "Clearly the original claim was an… Read More

If you’re a student at University College, London (UCL) or Trinity College, Dublin, a new academic service means you’ll be able to download lectures from iTunes, making the alarm clock a thing of the past. They’re the latest addition to the so-called iTunes U, where lectures from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, UC Berkeley and MIT are all available for free. Video and audio recordings of the Trinity College and UCL… Read More

You might like the idea of being a student at Liverpool Hope University in England. After all the city was home of the Beatles, and this year it’s theEuropean Capital of Culture.   If the idea appeals, you can visit – well, visit a version of Hope, anyway – without even leaving your chair, for today media students at theuniversity are hosting an open day for visitors and prospective students on the virtual world Second… Read More

The future is in parallel computing. So say the CEOs of both IBM and Google, who are converting their shared vision into a huge investment in college campuses to strengthen student understanding of the technology. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the companies would sink between $20 million and $25 million into hardware, software and services in parallel computing resources for college campuses. The reason: both say… Read More

After blanketing 25 American universities with pre-litigation letters in February, the Recording Industry Association of America announced late last week that it was launching a second round of letters. A total of 408 notices will be sent to a new batch of 23 separate schools, including: State University of New York at Morrisville (34) Georgia Institute of Technology (31) Pennsylvania State University (31) University of… Read More

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), famous for filing lawsuits against individuals it alleges are sharing copyrighted music files via peer-to-peer file sharing services, has stepped up its program of copyright infringement complaints directed at students at colleges and universities. So far for the 2006–2007 academic year, the RIAA has complained about the activities of nearly 15,000 students at just the 25… Read More

Let's face it - college campuses and the students who inhabit them are bad places for those who fear for the copyrights of their music and videos. Is there a market here then to make money off of legal distribution of content to students? You bet says Ruckus, a company which is specifically dedicated towards bringing digital media and entertainment services to college campuses. Ruckus announced today they had signed a deal with New… Read More

The official reponse by the RIAA:

“Scientists from Toin University of Yokohama in Japan have designed a single, compact device that can both convert solar energy to electricity and store the electricity. “We succeeded inincorporating both photovoltaic and storage functions in a single cell with a thin, sandwich-type structure,” said Tsutomu Miyasaka, a researcher at the University. The researchers' photocapacitor is also efficient at capturing energy… Read More

Twenty-five of the lawsuits brought by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), on behalf of the major record companies, were against individuals using a university Internet connectionto illegal distribute music files on unauthorized peer-to-peer services such as eDonkey, Limewire and Kazaa. The university networks used by the 25 individuals who were sued today include: American University, Amherst College, Assumption College,… Read More

WSU's deal was created under the Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance program. Other institutions such as the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Dartmouth College, Howard University and the State University of New York, Stony Brook, also have similar software agreements with Microsoft. Membership in the alliance is usually based on licensing fees collected for each university department. “WSU is… Read More

Beginning in the fall, students at Cornell University, The George Washington University, Middlebury College, the University of Miami, The University of Southern California and Wright State University will have access to the service through the schools, the company said. Read more at Globe Technology.