EDUPAGE> Edupage, October 13, 2003
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TOP STORIES FOR MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2003
SunnComm Backs Away from Lawsuit Threat
Web Site About Diploma Mills Causes Controversy
China Unveils Grid Computing Project
Survey Shows How Users Deal with Spam
SUNNCOMM BACKS AWAY FROM LAWSUIT THREAT
One day after security firm SunnComm Technologies threatened to sue a
Princeton University graduate student for revealing how to defeat the
company's CD copy-protection technology, CEO Peter Jacobs withdrew the
threat. When Princeton student John Halderman published a paper
earlier
in the week with details about sidestepping SunnComm's technology,
Jacobs accused Halderman of defaming the company and threatened him
with civil and criminal prosecution. Jacobs on Friday conceded that
filing lawsuits would have been a mistake, saying, "It wasn't our
intention to strike a blow against research."
BBC, 13 October 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3186592.stm
WEB SITE ABOUT DIPLOMA MILLS CAUSES CONTROVERSY
A physics professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
has taken down a Web site with research on diploma mills after meeting
with university administrators. According to George Gollin, officials
from the university ordered him to remove the Web site from university
servers after some of the institutions profiled threatened to sue the
university. A spokesperson from the university denied that Gollin was
ordered to shut down the site, saying, "We were trying to help him
find
a more appropriate place for his Web site." She noted that because
Gollin is a professor of physics, the issue of diploma mills and
accreditation falls outside his area of expertise and does not meet
the
university's public-service requirement. Gollin's work will now be
available on the State of Oregon's Office of Degree Authorization
site. Alan Contreras, administrator of that site, called the research
"superb" and said it is "a very helpful consumer-protection tool."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 October 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/10/2003101301t.htm
CHINA UNVEILS GRID COMPUTING PROJECT
Chinese education officials this week will launch a grid-computing
project they say might one day cover 200,000 students at 100
universities around the country. The China Education and Research
Grid,
managed by the Chinese Ministry of Education, will initially include
12
universities and will be capable of 6 trillion FLOPS (floating point
operations per second) by 2005. The power of the grid is expected to
increase to 15 trillion FLOPS. Al Bunshaft, vice president of sales
and
development for grid computing for IBM, which is building the new
Chinese grid computer, said it will be used for a University of Hong
Kong Web-based language instruction application, video software
developed by Peking University, and a suite of bioinformatics
applications. The Chinese grid will not be as large as some, such as
the U.S. National Science Foundation's TeraGrid, but Bunshaft said it
could become the largest grid for remote learning.
InfoWorld, 13 October 2003
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/13/HNchinagrid_1.html
SURVEY SHOWS HOW USERS DEAL WITH SPAM
A new survey by DoubleClick shows some of the methods that consumers
are using to deal with the growing tide of spam in their inboxes. Most
users agreed that spam is the biggest problem with e-mail, though 90
percent acknowledged they have received permission-based commercial
e-mail. Users tended to favor "common-sense" approaches to dealing
with
spam rather than technological ones. Only 16 percent of respondents
said they use a software filter for e-mail. Most users said they
inspect e-mail, particularly the "from" line, and will simply delete
mail they suspect of being spam. Respondents to the survey also
complained about the frequency of permission-based messages. "Even
permission based e-mail can be offensive if it's received too often,"
said Scott Knoll, vice president and general manager of market
solutions at DoubleClick.
Internet News, 13 October 2003
http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/3090961
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