Edupage, February 09, 2005
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Black History Month All Year Long
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Classroom resources - slave songs, including stories of the people,
often passed from elders to the next generation, learn through the oral
tradition.
Find 2 original Anansi Folktale E-books. Download, read, and hear each
story narrated in both American Virgin Island Creole and Standard English,
plus find out how these stories survived in tact from the original
storyteller. The Virgin Islands Dutch Creole folktale below was collected
by a Dutch anthropologist, J. P. B. de Josselin de Jong, who visited the
Virgin Islands in 1923. De Josselin de Jong does not say who told him this
story. However, we do know that all of the people who told him stories
lived on St. Thomas and St. John and that they spoke both Dutch Creole and
Virgin Islands English.
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TOP STORIES FOR WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 09, 2005
University of Calgary Offers Course on Spam, Spyware
Survey Predicts Slide in Higher Ed IT Spending
Microsoft to Acquire Antivirus Maker
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY OFFERS COURSE ON SPAM, SPYWARE
The University of Calgary, which gained attention in 2003 when it began
offering a course on writing viruses, has now introduced a course
devoted to writing spyware and spam. Although the virus-writing course
prompted strong criticism, response to the new offering has been
warmer. Some members of the computer-security community noted that such
a course could give students a strong understanding of how to combat
malicious computer code in practice. "If we're looking for an engineer
to [fight] spam, then we'd rather have somebody who has already been
taught about these things and who knows how they work," said Steve
Purdham, CEO of SurfControl. Mark Murtagh of Websense echoed those
comments. He compared computer security to a game of chess, saying,
"You need to be completely up to date on what's available to ensure
you understand your opponent's potential next move." Pete Simpson,
ThreatLab manager at Clearswift, disagreed, however, saying that such
arguments "really [fall] flat for spamming tools." He said the course
will tempt students to put their skills to harmful use. Students who do
so risk failing grades and prosecution, according to the university.
Silicon.com, 8 February 2005
http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39127703,00.htm
SURVEY PREDICTS SLIDE IN HIGHER ED IT SPENDING
A recent Market Data Retrieval survey of IT officials at more than
1,400 two- and four-year colleges and universities suggests a decline
of 4 percent in IT spending this year compared to last year, itself a
decline over the previous year. Analysts at the research firm said the
decline is likely a result not only of tight budgets overall but also
of increased performance of hardware, allowing lower costs for some
investments. The overall drop of 4 percent is the net of a 13 percent
slide in investments at public institutions and a 28 percent increase
at private institutions. Private institutions continue to significantly
outpace their public counterparts on IT spending per student, spending
an average of $553 per student versus $203 at publics. The survey also
found slightly lower rates of distance education offerings, down from
67 percent to 64 percent, and an increase in wireless networks, rising
from 70 percent last year to 79 percent this year.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 February 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/02/2005020903n.htm
MICROSOFT TO ACQUIRE ANTIVIRUS MAKER
Microsoft has announced plans to acquire privately held Sybari
Software, maker of software that protects against viruses, worms, and
other threats. Microsoft has purchased other companies as part of its
efforts to increase security, including a Romanian antivirus company,
GeCAD Software, in 2003 and antispyware maker Giant Software Company in
December of last year. Mike Nash, corporate vice president in
Microsoft's security business and technology unit, said that with the
latest purchase, Microsoft will begin offering stand-alone antivirus
products. He said the company would soon offer a product based on
Sybari technology and geared toward business customers. Other products
designed to protect PCs from Web-based attacks will follow, though Nash
did not provide a time frame for those applications.
New York Times, 8 February 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/09/technology/09soft.html
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