By Paul McCloskey Web services represent the Internet mapped onto real, dynamic business processes. They are the Internet come of age. If you draw a blank when presented with the term, “Web Services,” you are probably not a technology bellwether on campus. On the other hand, if you think Web services are old hat, your […]
Continue reading...iCampus Funds Four New Student Projects
“The MIT-Microsoft iCampus partnership has awarded its fifth round of funding for student projects. Four groups will receive $30,000 for the next 12 months, working on software to help dormitory desk workers, TV screens to display campus news around MIT, GPS receivers to track MIT’s sailboats, and computer-aided molecule models….” Read More The Tech, January […]
Continue reading...iLab Syllabus Conference
iLab Syllabus Conference, Boston MA, December 8-10, 2003. “The iLabs Project: Exploring Internet-Enabled Access to Physical Labs,” James Hardison, Jud Harward, Steve Lerman.
Continue reading...ShuttleTrack Conference
18th Annual Conference of the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students, Washington DC, November 7, 2003. “Shuttletrack—A technologically-enabled, collaborative student project,” Krishnan Sriram and Salil Soman.
Continue reading...Academia gets creative with Web services
“A Web service can help you catch a bus. Or test an electronic circuit from a dorm room. Or even take English writing tests in a new way….” Read More CNET News.com, October 27, 2003
Continue reading...Students create on-campus digital music library
New tune on digital music 2 STUDENTS CREATE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a way to offer on-demand digital music on campus, without inviting a lawsuit from the recording industry. The students created an electronic music library that allows anyone on the […]
Continue reading...MIT Explores Options for Legal Downloads
“MIT is exploring a range of services that would allow legal access to digital music, according to Professor James D. Bruce, vice president of information systems…” Tech Talk, September 10, 2003 Original Source: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2003/sep10/bruce.html (Link no longer active)
Continue reading...Microsoft’s Big Role on Campus
“Bearing gifts of cash, sofware and computers worth $25 million, Microsoft Corp. came to the Massachusetts Institue of Technology in 1999,…” Read More Washington Post, August 25, 2003
Continue reading...AAHE Assesment Conference – iMoat
American Association of Higher Education (AAHE) Assessment Conference, Seattle WA, June 22-24, 2003. “iMoat: The Best Practice Solution to Writing Assessment,” Les Perelman. Conference site
Continue reading...Report From Redmond – Interview With Doug Leland
“At a time when many companies are curtailing their contributions to academic institutions for basic computer science research, Microsoft is doing the opposite…” Read More
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