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The University of Tennessee has told about 1,900 students and employees that their names and security numbers were posted online in an archive of an e-mail discussion group for campus employees. Members of the university’s bursar’s office and its computing…

Incredibly enough, podcasting is already becoming passe at Princeton University. In an attempt to catch the attention of Web surfers sporting Apple’s new video-playing iPod, the university has started posting recordings of academic events as vodcasts — short for video…

In a finding that could lead to more-powerful optical computer networks, researchers at Stanford University have shown that germanium, an element commonly used in semiconductors, might replace the more exotic materials now used for a key component in those networks….

Blue Gene/L, the massive supercomputer running at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has once again broken its own speed record. In a test run yesterday, the machine managed to conduct just over 280 trillion calculations per second — or 280…

A husband-and-wife team accused of running one of the nation’s largest online diploma mills has been granted bail, but the couple won’t be spending much time on the Internet while they await trial. Dixie E. and Steven K. Randock Sr….

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are unveiling an array of high-tech language-translation tools today, and some of the devices look like they’ve been lifted from the pages of a Philip K. Dick novel. There is a prototype for a pair…

Thanks to ultraviolent titles like Quake and Grand Theft Auto, the video-gaming industry isn’t exactly known for its high-minded political insight. But Ivan Marovic, one of the founders of the influential Serbian student resistance group Otpor, is hoping to change…

With a $5-million commitment, Microsoft’s MSN Search division is joining universities and its online-search rival Yahoo in a consortium dedicated to scanning millions of books in the public domain. The company’s pledge will pay for the scanning of 150,000 volumes….

Two companies are offering a line of iPod-ready crib notes to such literary classics as The Great Gatsby and The Scarlet Letter. The study guides include both text and audio clips. (The Chronicle, free link)…

The record industry continues to make campus file swappers the focus of its monthly antipiracy lawsuits. This month’s batch, filed against 745 people, included computer users at 17 colleges. As in recent months, many of the campus defendants are users…

At the League for Innovation in the Community College conference, many of the sessions deal with how to capture the attention of today’s students. College students these days want games, video, audio, and other bells and whistles, presenters say: Otherwise,…

When professors calculate students’ grades they often consider whether and how often students joined classroom discussions. But with the proliferation of distance education, online discussion boards have come to replace the traditional face-to-face debates and exchanges among students. So how…

One of the most well-attended sessions at the League for Innovation in the Community College’s technology conference today featured a discussion of how professors are using online quizzes, interactive games, and simulations to teach students about everything from economics to…