September 2006

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Digitization at Princeton

The digitization of text, images, and music has become an integral part of research and teaching at Princeton. Services to support these efforts continue to be developed to respond to an ever increasing need to...

UC Berkeley offers courses and symposia through Google Video

Yasmin Anwar, Media Relations BERKELEY - In another innovative move to share its intellectual treasures with the public, the University of California, Berkeley, announced today (Tuesday, Sept. 26) that it is delivering educational content, including...

Yale University to post courses on Web for free

BOSTON (Reuters) - Yale University said on Wednesday it will offer digital videos of some courses on the Internet for free, along with transcripts in several languages, in an effort to make the elite private...

Learning through technology-enhanced collaboration

While new technologies have made information more accessible, they have yet to live up to their full potential when it comes to knowledge sharing. Two European projects in the field of collaborative learning are looking...

Congress Approves Bill Establishing a Publicly Available Database With Details on Earmarks

By Jeffrey Brainard Congress has approved a bill establishing a Web-based, Google-like search engine to provide a single, public source of information about federal contracts and grants, including projects financed through academic earmarks. The move...

Researchers reveal 'extremely serious' vulnerabilities in e-voting machines

In a paper published on the Web today, a group of Princeton computer scientists said they created demonstration vote-stealing software that can be installed within a minute on a common electronic voting machine. The...

U. of California Will Provide Up to 3,000 Books a Day for Google to Scan

By SCOTT CARLSON A mere two months after the University of California begins its book-digitization project with Google, the university will provide the search company with as many as 3,000 books a day for scanning....

Harvard to Offer Law Course in 'Virtual World'

By ANDREA L. FOSTER Harvard University plans to hold its first class in a “virtual world” this fall, using a video-gamelike environment called Second Life. Charles Nesson, a renowned professor at Harvard Law School, is...