JD.com, China’s largest retailer online or offline, has launched a joint research lab for blockchain technologies with the Ying Wu College of Computing at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and the Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS). More...
The goal of the pilot project, which is suspending access to Netflix, Hulu, Apple updates, iTunes and Steam, is to ensure students have unimpeded access to the academic resources they need. More...
Many higher ed institutions are adding more Wi-Fi access points, setting usage limits or resorting to throttling—slowing down connectivity to control video streaming, a major source of bandwidth consumption. More...
Jenzabar, a leading technology innovator in higher education serving the new student, today announced new enhancements to its Jenzabar One cloud-based student system that improves and simplifies the student experience. More...
ECMAScript for XML (E4X) Specification
I still can't reconcile myself to the idea that Javascript is now called ECMAscript (and I won't change!) - it seems to me it should be called Javascript, as it always was, and run by the W3C. Even if ECMA runs it, it should still be called Javascript. Anyway. D'Arcy Norman picks up this nice link to E4X - ECMAscript (Javascript) for XML. More...
RecoSearch: A Model for Collaboratively Filtering Java Learning Objects
There's a lot going on in this paper and this short summary won't do it justice. The author describes a system for "a collaborative infrastructure for authoring, searching, recommending and presenting Java source code learning objects." I am on the one hand impressed by the completness and elegance of the solution described (and, as far as I can tell, implemented). More...
Self-archiving: Institutional Repositories
Something government funding agencies and foundations in other nations (including my own) should look at: the possibility of tying research funding to the provision of publications in an open access eprints archive. More...
Information and Communication Technology
Recommended on WWWEDU today was this resource offered by the Alberta government describing the ICT (Information and Communications Technology) curriculum in Alberta schools. More...
Japanese Carrier Unveils Mobile-phone Wallet
Not what the headline suggests. The device is essentially a way to conduct wireless transactions - wave your phone at the scanner and the sale it deducted (accurately, one hopes) from your account. Fine. More...
Technology to widen Amber Alerts
Off topic but worth noting (with the hope that this will be forwarded to someone who can make this happen). What I want: a simple line of Javascript that I can insert into my webpage that displays nothing most of the time, but which will display the Amber Alert when it is invoked. More...
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