Electronic textbooks, or eTexts, promise to cut costs, while adding features that go beyond printed books. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
Ezra Cornell would have felt at home with the competition to build a science and technology campus in New York City. The founding of Cornell University involved intense competition for New York state's share of the Morrill land-grant funding. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
Just in time for a new semester, the Blackboard course management system has been upgraded, with new tools for instructors. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
The biggest challenge colleges face when designing new mobile services is a tendency to overplan, argues Cindy Bixler, chief information officer of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. See full story in Chronicle of Higher Education
A new study at Daytona State College has found that many who tried e-textbooks saved only one dollar, compared with their counterparts who purchased traditional printed material. See full story in Chronicle of Higher Education
In planning a multidisciplinary, entrepreneurial and research-based campus in New York City, Cornell leaders are developing tech campus programs under interdisciplinary domains, or hubs. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
It's official! Mayor Michael Bloomberg has selected Cornell and its partner, the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, to realize his vision for a cutting-edge NYC Tech Campus that will serve as a global magnet for tech talent and entrepreneurship. See full story in Cornell University
Fast file transfer service will be demoed at January 12, 2012 lunch seminar. See full story in Center for Advanced Computing News Release
Faculty and staff now have a free, university-provided way to upload and store a small number of videos that pertain to or support the mission of Cornell University.
Criminals only need to book travel once to get a copy of everything a legitimate airline might email someone; then it's only a matter of creating a duplicate email with one or more naughty links, and spamming you until you let your guard down.
Discussion about mobile IT in higher education is ubiquitous, but attaining benefits of mobility does not come easily. See full story in EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research
A humanoid robot named Mae understands and executes English commands, thanks to algorithms and a software toolkit developed in the lab of Hadas Kress-Gazit, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
The last city approval necessary for the construction of the new building for the Department of Computing and Information Sciences has been granted by the City of Ithaca Planning and Development Board. See full story in the Cornell Daily Sun
A Cornell professor will begin his term as Chief Technologist for NASA this January after his appointment earlier this month. See full story in the Cornell Daily Sun
Is the Internet a singular product, destined to be controlled by the companies supporting consumer access to it? Or is it a new forum for information that must be protected against censorship or else risk First Amendment rights? See full story in The Cornell Daily Sun
Recent changes to Google Reader are a good occasion for us to think about "our" data, who controls it, and whether we’ll be able to maintain our own access to it. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Many people, especially young adults, feel attachment to their phones and view them as a social lifeline that they can't do without, even when anxiety the phones produce keeps them up at night, say researchers. See full story in the Chronicle of Higher Education
Cornell to digitize and provide online access to images of 1500 coins. See full story in Chronicle Online
Interested in the latest news about Cornell's educational technologies? See the November 2011 issue of the Teaching with Technology Newsletter from Academic Technologies.
Many new features are available to blogs running in the Cornell Blog Service, including an "Easy Blogging" option, wiki functionality, Google Maps integration, and more.
Cornell University has launched an on-demand research computing service available to scientists inside and outside of the institution. Red Cloud, named after Cornell's school color, is hosted by its Center for Advanced Computing. See full story in Campus Technology
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and the revised edition of the eBook "Computer Security at Cornell" from Cornell Information Technologies describes the newest hazards to your computer and mobile devices. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
Technology education at Tioga Central High School will get a boost from a donation of 40 computers from Cornell. The donation, managed by the Cornell Computer Reuse Association (CCRA), also included three laser printers. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
Tanzeem Choudhury, associate professor of computing and information science, is developing an application to let a smartphone measure stress and help mitigate it. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
Many campus IT leaders say that putting computing services online seems a natural fit for group purchasing, and that the cost savings can be substantial. See full story in the Chronicle of Higher Education
A partnership between Cornell University and The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to create a world-class applied science and engineering campus will transform New York City into a world hub of innovation. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
A team of four Cornell faculty members received an NSF grant to research how to improve energy allocation through a "smart" electrical grid. One of the researchers’ goals is to develop software to incorporate cloud computing into the smart grid. See full story in The Cornell Daily Sun
With NSF and Microsoft support, Cornell team aims to take errors out of cloud computing See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
As technology advances, so do the threats posed to its users and their devices. One growing area of concern for colleges, highlighted in a report released today, is the increasing number of attacks on smartphones and their mobile Web browsers. See full story in Wired Campus
With an estimated 5 billion mobile phone connections in the world, not to mention the emerging number of tablet computers and other on-the-go connectivity gadgets, mobile technology has altered the way we live. See full story in CNN Tech
The National Center for Education Statistics has released a report on online-learning growth between 2000 and 2008, showing that the percentage of undergraduates enrolled in at least one online class went from 8 percent to 20 percent during that time. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Even as many institutions grapple with their cloud strategies, faculty are taking advantage of cloud-based services to rev up their classes and engage students. See full story in Campus Technology
There has been a surge in interest in the digital humanities -- a branch of scholarship that takes the computational rigor that has long undergirded the sciences and applies it the study of history, language, art and culture. See full story in Inside Higher Ed newsletter.
A Cornell research team has received a four-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a system for computation and information sharing when designing a "smart" electrical grid. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
An outside review of Cornell's information technology operation recommends a more collaborative culture, with IT professionals as enablers. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
The University of North Carolina has a message that pops up on laptops that have file-sharing programs, when they connect to the university’s network. See full story in Wired Campus
The Cornell Library, along with libraries at Duke, Johns Hopkins and Emory, announced on Aug. 24 that it will make thousands of “orphan works” digitally accessible to its patrons through an online database. See full story in Cornell Daily Sun.
R5 Operations (Respect, Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) will securely collect and arrange for the destruction of magnetic media, specifically hard drives, in addition to the systems/electronics they presently recycle.
Cornell's Creative Machines Lab put two chatbots mano-a-mano in a robochat death match of slightly less than epic proportions. See full story in MaximumPC.
Cornell's Exchange email and calendar system for faculty and staff is being upgraded to Exchange Server 2010.
Students will be able to access Khan Academy’s instructional videos from e-textbooks sold by Kno Inc. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus
Textbook shopping for students has gotten complicated, with many options for buying or renting both printed and electronic texts. Several new services have emerged to help students sort through options and compare prices. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus
Just like generations of plants and animals evolve in nature, Cornell engineers are allowing anyone online to guide the evolution of printable, three-dimensional objects. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
Doug James, associate professor of computer science, develops computer algorithms to synthesize sound "on the fly" based on simulated physics models. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
The pioneering effort to share scientific research without the restrictions of journal prices and embargoes, arXiv, turns 20 this month. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Links about creating accessible resources in a digital environment. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Amazon has rolled out an e-textbook-rentals program, which could bring more attention to the emerging model of treating textbooks like online subscriptions. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Cornell’s bid to build a science and engineering campus in New York City intensified Tuesday as Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that he would seek final proposals for the project from interested universities by Oct. 28. See full story in The Cornell Daily Sun
The Institute for Computer Policy and Law is an intensive four-day seminar examining the impact that widespread use of the Internet has on college and university policies, procedures, and judicial systems.
Doug Boyd, an oral historian at the University of Kentucky, has developed a method for indexing audio and video recordings, making it easy for researchers to call up precise words without having to listen to endless hours of tape. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Can academic presses harness the recent popularity of textbook rentals to steer customers toward e-books? A number of presses are hoping so. See full story in Inside Higher Ed
Researchers at Old Dominion University in Virginia are trying to figure out how much of the public Web is archived and who is storing it, as part of a larger effort to preserve the digital record. See full story in Wired Campus
Blackboard, maker of the dominant online learning platform among nonprofit colleges, has been sold to Providence Equity Partners. The announcement prompted reassurances from Blackboard that there are no significant changes in the offing. See full story in Inside Higher Ed
In a shower of cheers and confetti, Cornell began a new era in finance with the launch of the Kuali Financial System (KFS) on July 1.
As the mobile Internet continues to grow at an astounding pace, some colleges are shifting their attention from stand-alone applications that can be downloaded from an app store to mobile-optimized versions of their web sites. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
PressForward venture provides alternative to traditional academic publishing. See full story in Chronicle of Higher Education.
InCommon organizers announce expansion of membership to include projects at national labs and the Department of Energy and even virtual organizations. See full story in Wired Campus.
uPortal.Cornell, a web portal serving Cornell since 2002, will be retired on June 15, 2011. Users of uPortal.Cornell may begin using myCornell, a replacement service for uPortal.Cornell, immediately. See full story in myCornell Help.
Blackboard 9.1 is really, REALLY different! Sign up for training and download "7 Things for Instructors to Know About Blackboard."
The Association for Psychological Science has launched the APS Wikipedia Initiative to make sure Wikipedia represents psychology fully and accurately. See full story in the Chronicle of Higher Education
A new book called Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright fights misperceptions about fair-use rules, including those for online video. See full story in the Chronicle of Higher Education
Current books discuss how social media might rot students' brains--or create a cognitive surplus that improves society; hackers' pranks have definitely improved aspects of MIT; and Twitter may help repressive regimes See full story in the Chronicle of Higher Education
The National Academies Press will offer its entire PDF catalog of books as free downloads. The press is the publishing arm of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. See full story in the Chronicle of Higher Education
When Twitter traffic is laid out on a graph, revealing patterns emerge. See full story in the Chronicle of Higher Education
What's the problem with ubiquitous surveillance? Don't think Orwell; think Kafka. See full story in the Chronicle of Higher Education
eduroam, a secure Wi-Fi service, is now available at all RedRover locations on campus.
Showcase of Cornell student-created computer games is fun, but it also serves as a final exam. Players' reactions to the games are part of the students' final grade. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
The Blackboard update is just around the corner. To stay in the know about Blackboard at Cornell, watch the Blackboard blog.
"The future our students will inherit is one that will be mediated and stitched together by the mobile web, and I think that ethically, we are called on as teachers to teach them how to use these technologies effectively." See full story in Educause Review Magazine
While the Apple iPad and computing tablet kin have made rapid gains on college campuses, printed textbooks are still alive and well. See full story in Inside Higher Ed
Yale University has announced free access to online images of millions of objects housed in its museums, archives, and libraries. Currently, more than 250,000 images are available through a newly developed catalog. See full story in the Yale announcement
Blackboard Days are an opportunity for instructors to ask the Blackboard Support team questions about Blackboard 9.1. Dates: May 12, 13, 16, 17 at various campus locations.
Cornell Alumni Magazine discusses how the student experience is changing in the digital age. See full story in the Cornell Alumni Magazine.
A Save America’s Treasures grant will provide for the restoration and digitization of the law library’s collection of trial pamphlets. See full story in the Cornell Daily Sun.
Joi Ito, the new director at the Media Lab, is an advocate for open-source software, the learning potential in games like World of Warcraft, and non-traditional educational paths. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Analytics tools, some colleges find, can transform ineffective pages into winners. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Showing students how to read critically and formulate research queries is part of the teaching function of college libraries. But how do you teach students to read critically that which has no text? See full story in Inside Higher Ed
While lawyers debate what Google can do with thousands of digitized books whose copyright status is in question, librarians want to make sure those digital books will always be around to read. Cornellians have a new way to search hard-to-find texts. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
Poem in Your Pocket observances this month will include an Ithaca event April 28 for younger students, and Cornell has created a new companion mobile website. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
With big money and competitiveness at stake, smarter -- not faster -- designs may be the winners. See full story in the Chronicle of Higher Education
Electrical engineering professor C. Richard Johnson is using computing algorithms to help art historians identify which of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings came from the same original rolls of canvas See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
Google Documents can be set up to reduce the amount of time that instructors spend on administrative grading-related tasks, leaving more time to focus on reading and responding to students’ work. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
A new database is extending the life of the syllabus beyond the first day of class. Dan Cohen at George Mason University hopes the repository of one million syllabi he posted today on his Web site will help fuel academic scholarship. See full story in Wired Campus
Buried beneath the news of the Google Settlement’s rejection last week, a federal judge in Georgia has paved the way for publishers to go to trial in a contentious copyright case involving e-reserve practices at Georgia State University. See full story in Publishers Weekly
A pair of library services announced today show that even as the world’s most high-profile digital search-and-retrieval effort has been set back, smaller, academically oriented projects are hoping to continue making electronic texts more discoverable. See full story in Inside Higher Ed
A new partnership between the HathiTrust Digital Library and a popular academic search service will bring the searchable text of the HathiTrust’s 8.4 million digital-volume collection to more than 200 institutions. See full story in Wired Campus
Tuesday, a federal judge tossed out the proposed settlement in the lawsuit over Google's vast book-digitization project. Still, research libraries with a stake in that work said they were undeterred. See full story in the Chronicle of Higher Education
A Bentley University freshman turned to unlikely tools to help recover his stolen laptop: cloud computing and YouTube. See full story in the Chronicle of Higher Education
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. Unlike Google Images, which allows you to search based on keywords, TinEye looks at an image and tries to find online replicas, even cropped or modified versions. See full story in the Chronicle of Higher Education
There’s division in the news media about iPads this week. Optimism about the tablets in the college classroom abounds, but serious pedagogical limits also exist. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Cornell has enlisted the expertise of the Internet Archive's Archive-It service to create periodic snapshots of the entire Cornell Web space -- some 8 million files. See full story in Chronicle Online.
Japanese robotics researchers may be able to help search locations inaccessible to humans and dogs. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
A passion for travel and for computers has led Ben Cole '10 into a career devoted to making the Internet -- and technology at large -- a pervasive, positive and integral part of people's lives around the world. See full story in Chronicle Online.
New learning technologies prompt a rethinking of traditional course structure. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Computer science graduate student Renato Paes Leme has been awarded a Microsoft Research Fellowship to pursue research that may make online advertising a bit more efficient and profitable. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
What "appitype" are you? The Appthusiast? The Live Wire? The Appcentric?
The apps you add to your smartphone, from games to stock tickers, can tag you as one of these "appitypes," says Trevor Pinch, professor of science and technology studies. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
Students who returned to West Campus residence halls after winter break got a pleasant surprise: Their cell phones finally worked there thanks to a new antenna system that eliminates dead spots. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
Cornell will soon adopt the Kuali Financial System, created 'by higher education, for higher education.' Cornell talent has contributed to this 'community source' software from its very beginning. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
