Archive for the 'Computer Science' Category

BOSTON, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ — QAS, a part of Experian® specializing in address verification and cleansing products, announced today that 90 colleges and universities across North America have purchased QuickAddress software in the first two quarters of the company’s fiscal year, bringing its total higher education customer base to nearly 300 schools. This demonstrates […]

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Posted By: littlec | Oct 29th


No, that’s not a typo.
It’s called the Ultimate Steal, and indeed, it is.

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Posted By: froosh | Sep 12th


WASHINGTON, May 22 /PRNewswire/ — More than half of college and university students who download unlicensed software and other digital copyrighted files are experiencing computer viruses and spyware from their downloading activities, according to a new survey released today by the Business Software Alliance (BSA).
The survey, conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs*, shows that 55 percent […]

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Posted By: littlec | May 22nd


SEATTLE, WA — (MARKET WIRE) — May 15, 2007 — Giant Campus, the undisputed national leader in youth technology summer camps, today announced open registration for the first annual livewire™ summer camps for teens at Walt Disney World® Resort in Orlando, Fla. livewire combines […]

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Posted By: littlec | May 15th


DEERFIELD, Ill., May 1 /PRNewswire/ — One hundred colleges and universities out of some 3,800 U.S. schools have been ranked as the top values by Consumers Digest Magazine. The rankings are based on attributes that validate or define the institutions’ academic prowess factored against annual cost of tuition and room-and-board. Among 50 public institutions cited, […]

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Posted By: littlec | May 1st


ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 23 /PRNewswire/ — Facebook. YouTube. Wikipedia. Flickr. They’re the user-created stuff of Web 2.0 — also known as social computing — that have changed the way people interact with computers and each other.
Developing a formal understanding of the underlying dynamics at play and the critical technology choices has required a patchwork […]

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Posted By: littlec | Mar 23rd


ARMONK, NY — (MARKET WIRE) — February 05, 2007 — IBM today announced a first of its kind programming contest for college and university students in 25 different countries, offering cash prizes and awards for the most innovative applications of the breakthrough Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.).By working directly with the […]

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Posted By: littlec | Feb 5th


The main page link off MSN said “are Liberal Arts degrees useless,” I guess “worth anything” is a tad nicer.
If money is the main deteminant (it shouldn’t be - and no, we’re not Liberal Arts grads!), it might be. 
Here are the numbers for expected starting salaries for various majors, as reported in the National Association […]

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Posted By: froosh | Dec 5th