Teen who studied monkey DNA wins top science honors
Researching monkey's DNA, senior developed theory of how traits developed during evolution. Work "offers new insights," MIT prof says.
Education IT Blog
November 17, 2006
That one laptop is now running $150
Rising costs for battery and display force price up, but machines will ship soon to Libya, Nigeria, Brazil and Argentina
Software to ID gender, age of online writer
Developer hopes Gender Guesser can prevent some pedophile attacks on young people.
November 16, 2006
Teacher and IT administrator, Athol, MA High School "One-man IT shop"
Why my users don’t like their Macs
Christopher Dawson
Teacher and IT administrator, Athol, MA High School "One-man IT shop"And why they probably won't like their PCs either.
November 15, 2006
Services Development Specialist, Indiana University
"An education IT veteran"
Adopting Vista won’t be THAT simple
C. Marc Wagner
Services Development Specialist, Indiana University
"An education IT veteran"
If you have not yet begun testing Vista you'd better have plans to get the RTM release soon or your institution may not be ready for Vista when the time comes. Nevertheless, you should not assume that the transition will be either quick or painless.
Young bloggers leading teachers into the future
Students respond to chance to interact with book authors, gather readers of their works from around the world.
Web pages to plan for high school
KY program sets up web pages to help kids and parents start planning for the future.
November 14, 2006
Students show off online work in state capitol
MI students selected for trip to capitol to show blogs, graphing calculators to legislators.
U. Utah holds contest for best hacker
A tie to see who can write a database that handles 10,000 simultaneous users.
November 13, 2006
Universities consider Vista
Everything from cautious department heads to bugs in the OS will affect universities' speed of deployment.
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- Phasing in Identity Infrastructure ComputerWorld
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- MPAA Sues Firm For Loading Legally Owned DVDs Onto iPods TechDirt
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