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TOP STORIES FOR WEDNESDAY, MAY 04, 2005
Dartmouth Nears Completion of Network Convergence
NSF Working on Cyberinfrastructure Plan
GAO Calls for Improved Online Training for TSA
Apple Works for School iBook Deal
DARTMOUTH NEARS COMPLETION OF NETWORK CONVERGENCE
Dartmouth College expects this fall to complete a project begun in 2001
to converge the school's phone, cable, and wireless systems into a
single network. When finished, the network--described as the first of
its kind at a U.S. university--will give students and faculty wireless
access to the university's online services, including cable television
and telephone, from anywhere on campus. In addition, the network will
allow users to create individual "channels," which can include various
forms of video content with a cable-quality signal. Channels could be
set up, for example, to let students view video snippets of lectures
when choosing classes. Having a network that allows students to watch
cable programming any time, from anywhere on campus, including during
class, has some worried about keeping students focused on studies, but
university officials are optimistic that the network will offer
compelling tools for professors to hold students' attention. Dartmouth
said it saved more than $2 million by installing its new network when
old systems needed to be replaced, and the network reportedly saves
close to $1 million each year on maintenance and other costs.
New York Times, 4 May 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/technology/techspecial/04zezima.html
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NSF WORKING ON CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE PLAN
Arden L. Bement Jr., director of the National Science Foundation (NSF),
this week told attendees of an Internet2 meeting in Virginia that the
NSF is developing a plan to support development of the nation's
cyberinfrastructure, including that of colleges and universities.
Bement said that funding for cyberinfrastructure is "one of the most
important investments of the 21st century," though the announcement was
short on specifics. The NSF's Cyberinfrastructure Interim Working
Group submitted a report to Bement that reportedly outlines the details
of the plan, but the agency said it will not release the report until
some issues are cleared up. In his comments, Bement noted that higher
education in particular is in need of improvements. What he described
as six-lane superhighways for data "are reduced to two-lane roads at
most college and university campuses." Such "information overload," as
he called it, impedes research from being conducted efficiently. Still,
Bement noted that money for the NSF "is not plentiful" and that it will
likely be even scarcer in the future.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 May 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/05/2005050401t.htm
GAO CALLS FOR IMPROVED ONLINE TRAINING FOR TSA
A report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) calls for
improvements to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) training
procedures, including ensuring that all training locations have
high-speed Internet access. Many airport training centers currently do
not have such access, according to the report, making monitoring of
training and recertification difficult. The GAO found that because of
problems in the training programs, officials at TSA have no way to
track training that employees receive or even to determine who is
responsible for ensuring TSA employees have proper training. TSA has
made some improvements to its training programs since September 2003,
according to the report, but the GAO said the TSA currently lacks
appropriate plans to implement needed improvements.
Federal Computer Week, 4 May 2005
http://www.fcw.com/article88762-05-02-05-Web
APPLE WORKS FOR SCHOOL IBOOK DEAL
A tentative deal between Apple Computer and the Cobb County School
District in Georgia could see as many as 63,000 iBook computers going
to teachers and students in the district. The school board has already
given its approval to the purchase of 17,000 iBooks, for all teachers
and for students at four high schools. If approved, the program could
be expanded to include all students in the district. Apple's efforts
to persuade school districts to provide a computer for every
student--what it calls its one-to-one solutions--are aimed at regaining
ground in the education market that has been lost to companies selling
Windows-based products, most notably Dell. In 2001, Apple signed a
four-year deal with the Henrico County Public Schools in Virginia, only
to see that contract given to Dell last week when it came up for
renewal. Officials of Cobb County said they were aware of the situation
at Henrico when they selected Apple but that the problems with that
contract had been overcome. Henrico wanted the Microsoft Office
software suite on their computers and didn't have it, according to Jay
Dillion, a spokesperson for Cobb County. "We ... required Apple to
pre-load Office on all our iBooks."
CNET, 2 May 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-7342_3-5692363.html
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