Tag: UNIVERSITY

Remember how we thought in the mid-'90s that the 2000s would be all about holographs and virtual worlds? But didn't we collectively agree that virtual reality jumped the shark around the time CNN opened a Second Life news bureau, but apparently academe never signed on. The New York Times has a charming story today on how university professors are using interactive, digital visualizations to ...

The University of Redwood, judging from its website, seems like any other college. The school boasts a full faculty, its campus features plenty of verdant, open spaces, and it even accepts applications online. The only problem, though, is that the University of Redwood doesn't exist. And all those alluring campus photos and accomplished faculty members actually belong to Oregon's Reed College ...

Despite its uncertain future, VoIP company Skype has guaranteed itself at least a small core of customers by partnering with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to provide a custom, low-bandwidth video chat service to aid workers around the world. Aid workers supporting refugees are often shipped out with little notice, and can spend months at a time separated from friends and ...

When Karen Owen put together a mock senior "thesis" on her sexual conquests at Duke University, she thought it would provide some innocent amusement for her and her friends. Once the 42-page PowerPoint presentation found its way to the Web, though, the 22-year old's personal joke quickly became a viral sensation -- much to the embarrassment of those involved. In her presentation, titled "An ...

High schoolers have long grown broad-smiled and wide-eyed when regaled with their older friends' college stories -- parties, sleeping late, football games, and, amazingly to think, no attendance requirements. While those youngsters need not fear that all-night ragers and tailgating will fade into obscurity anytime soon, it may be a different story with class attendance. At least one college, ...

In the saddest news we've heard today (which means it's been a relatively good day), 440 people have enrolled in a master's course, held at Potsdam University in Germany, that instructs students in how to be flirtatious via text message and e-mail, how to impress acquaintances and how to deal with that girl who will inevitably text back, "uhhh NO, perv." The course's instructor, Philip von ...

The halcyon days of freewheelin' file-sharing may be drawing to a quiet close today at universities across the country. As CNET reports, yesterday marked the final deadline for colleges receiving Title IV federal aid to comply with the anti-piracy measures outlined in the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) of 2008. The act covers a broad range of issues pertaining to higher education, but ...

Share As any college student can tell you, textbooks are a pain. Filling your bookshelf each semester not only puts a dent in your wallet, but guarantees that you'll be left trying to sell a sleigh full of intro-level books by year's end. College students, then, would seem to be the perfect demographic for Amazon's Kindle reader. As it turns out, though, the Kindle is having a surprisingly tough ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Just because some of the kings of tech never finished their undergraduate studies (Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg) doesn't mean that kids today should skip the college ...

Where can you find the fastest broadband Internet speeds on the whole planet? According to Ars Technica, the crown goes to Berkeley, California, which has the fastest average broadband Internet speed on Earth -- at 18.7Mbps. This West Coast college town beat out, according to Akamai Technologies' State of the Internet Report, other major urban hubs in both Asia and Europe. The U.S fared ...

Despite a function on the Kindle that reads text aloud, two universities and an advocacy group for the visually impaired adopted a staunch anti-Kindle stance Wednesday. According to an Associated Press report, the University of Wisconsin - Madison and Syracuse University won't invest in more electronic readers for college students because the audio feature is too difficult for a visually impaired ...

Go to pretty much any college campus in the world, and you'll stumble upon Socrates, ponder over Plato, or fling a frisbee during a game of Ultimate. One university in Australia, though, is adding a dash of online social networking to their course catalog. Welcome to Twitter-damia. In a move that further cements Twitter's status as a mainstream media tool, Griffith University has introduced a ...

It's conventional wisdom at this point that cell phones are distracting, and that even simple activities like walking can become dangerous endeavors when mixed with texting. We've read, and reported on, study after study concerning cell phone users' lack of awareness, but the particulars of one such study, reported by LiveScience, stands out. One part of the study, headed by Ira Hyman, Jr. of ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/09/07/schools-offer-classes-in-twitter-guitar-hero-dumb-or-smart/'; Media outlets love headlines like 'University Teaches Twitter 101' or 'Facebooking Now Part of Curriculum.' Usually, though, such claims of kids being taught to tweet are sensationalized. It is true, though, that schools are increasingly looking towards new media to study the way we ...

Now that the technology for advanced prosthetic limbs is achievable, students at Stanford University are trying to make it actually attainable for the average person around the globe. Students in the school's Biomedical Device Design and Evaluation program started the JaipurKnee Project, and challenged themselves to create a fully-functioning prosthetic leg that could be manufactured for a very ...