The Florida Center for Cybersecurity (FC2), hosted at the University of South Florida, has partnered with seven State University System of Florida (SUS) institutions to implement FC2’s new virtual learning lab, the Florida CyberHub. More...
26 juin 2018
Seven SUS institutions partner with Florida CyberHub
Yale to drop SAT/ACT essay requirement
The number of colleges that require applicants to complete the timed-essay portion of college admission tests is dwindling. More...
How the Great Recession changed the job market for grads
As this year’s college graduates transition from school to career, they are entering one of the healthiest job markets in decades for those with newly minted degrees. Compared with their counterparts from the Class of 2010 — who left college in the depths of the Great Recession, when the unemployment rate was 9.5 percent — this year’s graduates face unemployment of under 4 percent. More...
As state cuts back, Colo. college student costs soar
In 2000, Colorado taxpayers footed 68 percent of the costs of a college degree, with students chipping in about one-third. More...
SMBmeta
SMBmeta
Now I have touted this plan several times in different offices: get businesses to adopt a metadata format describing themselves. Have each business maintain such a file just as it maintains a web site. Generate up to date business information and statistics merely by harvesting these files. More...
Safety Patrol Readied for Dot-Kids
Safety Patrol Readied for Dot-Kids
As the .kids.us domain is set up, establishing a 'safe zone' for kids - "designed to be free of pornography, hate speech, gambling, discount tobacco sales and other content deemed inappropriate for young audiences" - it becomes appropriate to ask about what kids should be protected from. More...
Major Internet Standards Group Working On Fast Plan To Can Spam
Major Internet Standards Group Working On Fast Plan To Can Spam
This brief article describes the Anti-Spam Research Group's plans to combat the growing nuisance. The plan is significant because, as the article points out, "The ASRG has the prestige to get its proposals put in place." One major initiative: enabling technology that makes it diffocult to send emails with false email addresses. More...
Drafting COL's next Three-year Plan
Drafting COL's next Three-year Plan
The Commonwealth of Learning has a new three year plan and would like your input. The plan, in a nutshell, involves a shift in focus from projects to programmes, or in other words, a shift from specific works to capacity building. More...
Universitas 21 Global - World-Class E-University Opens for Student Registration
Universitas 21 Global - World-Class E-University Opens for Student Registration
It has been a long time coming, but Universitas 21 Global has finally opened its doors to its first student registratrions. For those of you who may have forgotten, Universitas 21 Global is a joint venture between Thomson Learning and a consortium of 16 universities. More...
Read Before You Cite!
Read Before You Cite!
This is pretty funny. From the abstract: "We report a method of estimating what percentage of people who cited a paper had actually read it. The method is based on a stochastic modeling of the citation process that explains empirical studies of misprint distributions in citations. More...
