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May 12, 2008
ABC News to Open 5 University News Bureaus
ABC News will open five on-campus, multimedia news bureaus in the fall, Reuters reports.
The news organization will establish “online and broadcast technology” news bureaus at journalism schools at Arizona State and Syracuse Universities, and the Universities of Florida, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Texas at Austin. The move is intended to bring younger viewers and reporters into the fold.
Students selected as campus bureau chiefs will be given special multimedia training at ABC News’s headquarters in New York.—Catherine Rampell
Posted on Monday May 12, 2008 | Permalink | Comment [10]May 9, 2008
Energy-Conserving IT Tool
Faronics recently announced the release of Power Save 2.0, a product that allows IT administrators to monitor and control energy usage by campus computers.
Power Save analyzes CPU, disk, keyboard, mouse, and application activity, and then allows an IT administrator in a central location to turn off or put to sleep computers that have been sitting idle.
The product is being released later this month, according to a company spokesman.—Catherine Rampell
Posted on Friday May 9, 2008 | Permalink | Comment [3]May 2, 2008
Wireless Access Is Predicted to Surge on College Campuses
The market research company, ABI Research, predicts that 99 percent of North American colleges will have the current standard of wireless access, 802.11n, by 2013, up from 2.3 percent now. Among the reasons for deploying Wi-Fi is that colleges see it as a recruitment tool, according to ABI.
But most colleges already have wireless. They just haven’t migrated to the current “n” standard, and the standards change frequently with the emergence of new technologies, says Kenneth C. Green, of The Campus Computing Project.—-Andrea L. Foster
Posted on Friday May 2, 2008 | Permalink | CommentMay 1, 2008
New Study Debunks Myth That Most Tech Entrepreneurs Are College Kids
A new study from researchers at Duke University and Harvard University challenges the popular assumption that most technology entrepreneurs are twee college kids launching businesses from their dorm rooms.
The research, sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, studied U.S. engineering and technology companies founded between 1995 and 2005. It found that the median and average age at which U.S.-born entrepreneurs founded their technology and engineering companies was 39. There were twice as many entrepreneurs older than fifty than those who were younger than twenty-five, and 1 percent of U.S.-born founders of tech companies were teenagers.
The study also analyzed these entrepreneurs’ educational backgrounds.
The top ten schools awarding these entrepreneurs’ most advanced degrees were Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State University, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Missouri, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas, and the University of Virginia. Graduates from Ivy League schools represented 8 percent of the founders whose companies had, on average, higher average sales and employment than their counterparts. —Catherine Rampell
Posted on Thursday May 1, 2008 | Permalink | Comment [14]Xerox Creates Self-Erasing Paper
Feeling guilty about handing out so many syllabus updates in class, but still addicted to paper? Xerox recently announced a reusable, self-erasing paper that can help relieve your conscience.
Text printed on this paper automatically deletes itself in 16 to 24 hours, according to a Xerox news release. The paper can then be reused.—Catherine Rampell
April 30, 2008
Google Announces Winners of Scholarships for Female Technology Students
Google recently announced the winners of the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships, awarded to women who are studying computer science and related fields.
In the U.S., 23 women were given $10,000 academic scholarships, and 32 finalists received scholarships worth $1,000. In Canada, four women are receiving $5,000 scholarships, and 13 finalists will be given $1,000 awards. Students in Australia, New Zealand, and Europe are also eligible for the Anita Borg scholarships, which were established in 2003. For more information on Google’s scholarship programs, click here.—Catherine Rampell
Posted on Wednesday April 30, 2008 | Permalink | Comment [1]April 23, 2008
A Leader of $100-Laptop Project, Walter Bender, Resigns
This week Walter Bender, a top executive at One Laptop Per Child, a nonprofit group working to provide low-cost laptops to children in developing nations, announced his resignation. The move set off plenty of speculation by bloggers about what that means for the project, which originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, where Mr. Bender once served as director. Computerworld’s IT Blogwatch provides a helpful recap of the buzz. —Jeffrey R. Young
Posted on Wednesday April 23, 2008 | Permalink | Comment [2]April 18, 2008
Congress, Rumors Say, May Give Computer Research More Money
The federal government may come up with more money for technology research and other scientific work, much of which is done at universities, and it may do so this year. That is if the current inside-the-Beltway Washington gossip is to be believed.
A supplemental appropriations bill, slowly grinding its way through Congress, may contain more money for research, say the folks at the Computing Research Policy Blog, which comes from the Computing Research Association.
“We’re starting to hear from folks on the Hill that it’s looking more like science funding might be included in the initial supplemental when it comes out of the Senate,” report the bloggers. “What’s less clear is how much, though the consensus seems to be ‘likely less than the science and technology community hopes it will be.’”
The House has its own version of the supplemental bill, and there is not a lot of information about how that compares to the Senate version. Appropriations committees begin hearings on these bills in the next several weeks, so things will become clearer then. —Josh Fischman
Posted on Friday April 18, 2008 | Permalink | Comment [2]April 16, 2008
New Internet2 Social Network
The Internet2 K20 Initiative yesterday announced a new social networking site for the 50,000 primary and secondary schools, community colleges, libraries, and museums connected to the Internet2 backbone network.
The site, Muse, was developed by student Web programmers at the University of Washington for Internet2, an advanced computing consortium of colleges and businesses. Five regional Muse sites have also been set up, according to a press release.
Muse users can visit the site to learn how others are using Internet2-enabled technologies. Members can learn more about Muse at the Internet2 K20 Initiative Meeting on Monday, April 21, 2008. —Catherine Rampell
Posted on Wednesday April 16, 2008 | Permalink | CommentApril 10, 2008
Foreign Tech Students Are Given More Time to Stay in U.S. After Graduation
With little fanfare, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has extended the amount of time foreign students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics can stay in the United States without a work visa after graduation. The rule was changed in response to the overwhelming demand for skilled-worker visas.
Under the new rule, students will be able to stay in America for “Optional Practical Training” for 29 months after graduation, up from 12 months, without a work visa. In its official rule change [PDF], the department declared the shortage of H-1B visas an “emergency” that justified making the rule change without notice or comment.
This year and last, the cap for H-1B visas — given to skilled workers — was reached almost immediately after the application window opened at the beginning of April. Because H-1B applicants must have a college diploma in hand to apply, students who graduate after April 1 this year were shut out of the process.
High-tech companies, which complain that the United States is not doing a good enough job training home-grown talent in science and math, have been lobbying Congress to increase the visa cap.—Catherine Rampell
Posted on Thursday April 10, 2008 | Permalink | Comment [5]