June 30, 2006
Tablet PC's For All!
Virginia Polytechnic Institute’s engineering school will welcome its newest crop of freshmen this fall by giving each of them a shiny, new tablet PC. And students will be required to use the machines, especially in introductory courses, CNET News reports.
The advent of the new Fujitsu LifeBook machines, of course, means more work for professors: They’ll have to attend training sessions this summer so they can use the computers in classroom presentations. —Brock Read
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