From: Mustafa Akgul (akgul@Bilkent.EDU.TR)
Date: Sat 25 Mar 2006 - 18:21:35 EET
Merhabalar,
ekteki ilk habere dikkatinizi cekmek istiyorum.
İnternetin ortaya cikardigi bir olanak ve gelistirilen baska
araclarla, bir laburatuardaki aletleri uzaktan kullanmak mumkun
oluyor. Daha ilginci, aletlerin hazirligi, gelistirilen
araclarla, ilgili aletleri esas olarak test zamani kadar mesgul
ediyor. Boyle yurtlardai ogrencilerde, Afrikadaki
arastirmacilarda M.I.T'deki lab'leri kullanabiliyorlar.
Saygilar
Mustafa Akgul
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TOP STORIES FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2006
MIT iLabs Expand Access to African Universities
Georgia Researchers Develop Hybrid Network
Survey Suggests Widespread Privacy Violations
Russian Bill Upsets Antipiracy Groups
Encyclopedia Britannica Criticizes Nature Study
MIT ILABS EXPAND ACCESS TO AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES
A program at MIT that offers remote access to instrumentation in its
labs has grown to include universities in Africa. The iLab initiative
began in 1998 when Jesus del Alamo, professor of electrical engineering
and computer science, started developing tools that allow users to
prepare experiments separate from lab equipment and then submit their
tests to the equipment. In this way, experiments that take 20 minutes
to set up but only 10 seconds to run, for example, only occupy the lab
equipment for 10 seconds. As a result of del Alamo's work, MIT's lab
resources became available to students working from dorms and to users
in other countries. A grant from the Carnegie Corporation has led to
the expansion of the program to several universities in Africa, which
suffer from very high costs for Internet access. The iLabs model
requires researchers to be connected to--and paying for--the Internet
only while data is being transferred, not during the set up of their
tests. Organizers of the project hope that it can serve as a model for
other institutions. Steven Lerman, director of MIT’s Center for
Educational Computing Initiatives, described a scenario in which
institutions would purchase unique laboratory equipment, rather than
buying what another school already has, and share access to the various
unique resources.
Inside Higher Ed, 24 March 2006
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/03/24/ilab
GEORGIA RESEARCHERS DEVELOP HYBRID NETWORK
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing a
network technology that promises increased access to high-speed
Internet service. The technology would carry both wired and wireless
signals on the same fiber-optic cable, allowing both kinds of service
in facilities such as conference centers and offices with just one set
of wiring. The signal would be split to accommodate connections through
wall outlets as well as through wireless access points. Users could
connect through either channel and achieve access speeds of up to 2.5
Gbps. The network would also allow so-called wave division
multiplexing, which would divide the connection into as many as 32
channels, each capable of the same 2.5 Gbps speed.
TechWorld, 24 March 2006
http://www.techworld.com/mobility/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5640
SURVEY SUGGESTS WIDESPREAD PRIVACY VIOLATIONS
A study conducted by Bentley College and software company Watchfire
indicates that nearly three-quarters of colleges and universities in
California fail to comply with a state law concerning the collection
and use of personal information. The California Online Privacy
Protection Act of 2003 requires organizations that collect such
information online to clearly post privacy policies on their home pages
and on every page from which personal information is collected.
According to the study, which examined the Web sites of 236
institutions, only 28 percent had privacy policies linked from their
home pages. Moreover, every one of the 236 institutional Web sites had
at least one page that collects personal data without encrypting it.
Mary Culnan, management professor at Bentley and author of the report,
said she hopes these results serve "as a wake-up call to students,
alumni, and prospective students."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 23 March 2006 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/03/2006032301t.htm
RUSSIAN BILL UPSETS ANTIPIRACY GROUPS
A bill being considered by Russian lawmakers has antipiracy groups up
in arms, saying it would worsen the country's already terrible record
of enforcing intellectual property rights. Russia's current laws
include protections for rights holders, but enforcement of those laws
is poor. Antipiracy groups say music and software piracy in Russia
costs U.S. businesses $1.8 billion annually. The new bill would replace
all existing statutes covering intellectual property. Olga Barannikova
of the Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights said the bill is rife
with problems and will lead to even more piracy rather than aid the
country's antipiracy enforcement. "They may seem like small changes,"
she said, "but they will cause chaos." Barannikova faulted lawmakers
for drafting the bill without consulting businesses or groups
representing intellectual property rights.
San Jose Mercury News, 24 March 2006
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14178447.htm
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA CRITICIZES NATURE STUDY
Encyclopedia Britannica issued a harsh critique of a report released in
December by the journal Nature about the reliability of information on
Wikipedia. In its report, Nature concluded that the incidence of errors
was about the same in Wikipedia as in Encyclopedia Britannica. The
report compared articles on 50 topics and uncovered four serious errors
each in Wikipedia and in the Encyclopedia Britannica, though Wikipedia
contained more factual errors (162 versus 123). A response from the
encyclopedia challenges Nature's results, citing what it called "a
pattern of sloppiness, indifference to basic scholarly standards, and
flagrant errors so numerous they completely invalidated the results."
The encyclopedia takes issue with more than 50 specifics of the Nature
report and asks that the journal retract the report. Editors at Nature
defended the report, saying, "We reject those accusations and are
confident our comparisons are fair."
BBC, 24 March 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4840340.stm
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