Edupage, March 02, 2005
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TOP STORIES FOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 02, 2005
EDUCAUSE Launches Blog Service
iPods Debut at Drexel
Researchers Offer Planet Naming Rights
Eolas Case Set to Go Around Again
EDUCAUSE LAUNCHES BLOG SERVICE
EDUCAUSE has launched the EDUCAUSE Community Blog Service, a pilot
project to create a new, vibrant medium for professional information
sharing in the higher education IT community. The blogs represent a
growing number of voices in this community, and postings span a wide
range of topics, including cybersecurity, teaching and learning, and
open source software. Postings are categorized by taxonomy term and by
blogger and can be browsed on the EDUCAUSE Web site or received through
an RSS syndicated feed.
EDUCAUSE, 2 March 2005
http://www.educause.edu/blogs/
IPODS DEBUT AT DREXEL
Students entering the School of Education at Drexel University this
fall will receive iPods as part of a program to explore and evaluate
the educational potential of the devices. Duke University launched a
similar program last fall, distributing iPods to all 1,650 of its
incoming freshmen. The program at Drexel, however, is much smaller in
scope, with about 30 students expected to enter the School of Education
in the fall. Some have criticized such programs as gimmicks that are
unlikely to produce valuable educational results, and officials
involved in the programs acknowledge the risk that students will simply
use the devices to listen to music. Drexel officials said part of the
university's program is to solicit feedback from students about how
the devices could be put to good use educationally. Students will
receive microphones to record interviews and other meetings, and the
university will request that the students use the iPods to create
"audio Web logs" during a required semester of off-campus work. Drexel
will also experiment with podcasting, a process in which iPod owners
can download audio files, such as news announcements or lectures from
professors, and listen to them at their convenience.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2 March 2005
http://chronicle.com/free/2005/03/2005030203n.htm
RESEARCHERS OFFER PLANET NAMING RIGHTS
Researchers hoping to locate unknown planets outside the solar system
have launched a project to encourage computer users to donate unused
processing power on their computers to analyze telescope data.
Participants in the PlanetQuest Collaboratory whose computers discern
variations in the data that indicate the existence of a planet will be
allowed to name it. The project is led by David Gutelius, visiting
scholar at Stanford University, and Laurance Doyle, an astrophysicist
with the SETI Institute in California. The PlanetQuest project is not
unlike the SETI@Home project, sponsored by the University of California
at Berkeley, which uses donated computing power to search for
extraterrestrial intelligence. Gutelius and Doyle hope to raise enough
money for their project to build as many as 10 telescopes around the
world dedicated to searching for unknown planets. Gutelius said
start-up costs could reach $20 million, with annual operating costs
running about $10 million, money he hopes can be raised from private
investors as well as from subscriptions to premium content and revenue
from ads on the site.
Wired News, 2 March 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5596500.html
EOLAS CASE SET TO GO AROUND AGAIN
Both sides claimed partial victory from an appeals court ruling in the
patent infringement case between Microsoft and the University of
California (UC). The case focuses on technology patented by Mike Doyle,
a researcher at the university, which has been incorporated into most
Web browsers, including Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE). Eolas
Technologies, a company that was spun off of the university and which
holds a patent on the technology, has claimed patent infringement by
Microsoft. A lower court found for Eolas and awarded it $565 million in
damages, but an appeals court this week sent the case back to a lower
court to be tried again. The appeals court ruled that Viola, a browser
written before UC applied for its patent, should have been considered
by the jury. If Viola is determined to be "prior art," UC's patent
could be invalidated. Microsoft has also argued that Doyle misled the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a charge that the appeals court
decision brings back to the table. In UC's favor, the appeals court
said the patent, if valid, covers a wider range of applications than
attorneys for Microsoft had argued. The court also upheld the finding
that copies of IE shipped abroad would be covered by a U.S. patent and
would be considered in determining damages if the patent is upheld.
CNET, 2 March 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5596500.html
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