December 3, 2007
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Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program is underway with another order from Peru! I was pleased to read this in Saturday’s Boston Globe. Despite criticism from the media and computer manufactures, OLPC has made a significant milestone (and … Continue reading
November 21, 2007
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Suzanne Berger and MIT’s Industrial Performance Center wrote a book after concluding a five year study of the new global economy and lessons learned from 500 companies: How We Compete: What Companies Around the World Are Doing to Make it … Continue reading
November 16, 2007
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Not standing still following the NLR fallout…Internet2 and the Department of Energy (DOE) have successfully deployed a nationwide network with five interconnected rings with each ring consisting of one (or more) 10gigabit path. Placed together these rings form a coast-to-coast … Continue reading
November 9, 2007
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The on-again, off-again relationship between Internet2 and the National Lambda Rail has hit another snag. Maybe permanently. At the Internet2′s member meeting last December in Chicago the board announced the merger was off. Then less than three months later both … Continue reading
October 31, 2007
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Internet2 announced today that Verizon Business has joined Internet2 as a corporate member. Verizon joins corporate members including Google, Cisco, Northrop and Johnson & Johnson among others. Interest in Internet2′s 100GBs backbone is sparking interest all over the place. Internet2′s … Continue reading
October 11, 2007
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I was amused to read Arstechnica‘s News Desk article Internet2 at 100Gbps posted October 9th. However my blog post about this very topic from June 13th … well okay, I’m still glad to see more researchers, scientists, faculty and artists … Continue reading
September 13, 2007
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Today’s Live Discussion at the Chronicle of Higher Education points to the growth of new technologies that will change the college campus. Gartner’s “Hype Cycle for Higher Education” focused on technologies that will transform colleges in the next 10 years: … Continue reading
August 23, 2007
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You may need to buckle up first if you have not read Tom Friedman’s The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. Although its never too late to change…it is however, way too late to ignore. Implications … Continue reading
August 18, 2007
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A long and exciting summer with Maxwell has taken me away from my daily reading. But I have just finished Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference and learned its just as great as … Continue reading
June 13, 2007
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From coast to coast Internet2 is now connecting educational and research institutions across a new nationwide network at 100 Gigabits per second. For the Midwest is a perfect compliment to the new Boreas network announced this past spring. Public networks … Continue reading