This winter, 11,000 members of the Ivy League duked it out to be named Ivy League Champion: strategizing, forming alliances, attacking and retreating. But as Yale allied itself with Columbia and attacked Long Island in the popular Yale-based online spin-off of the board game Risk — GoCrossCampus — a similar battle was quietly being waged in the real world. While...
Having discussed a very abstract concept last week, I think I’ll return to something a good deal more technical. That something is the transition in the consumer-electronics industry toward “solid-state” storage in the place of conventional rotating “platter” and “head” technology. Most people know their hard drives as the first thing to die on their...
The seemingly standard chair collapsed, leaving its parts strewn about the stage. Moments later a whirring sound filled the room as the dismembered object resurrected into its original form. The Robotic Chair, or self-destructive chair, was shown in a live demonstration yesterday at the Yale Art Gallery Auditorium supported by the Tetelman Fellowship and co-sponsored by...
“Technology is like fire — it’s neither good nor bad.” Instead, its importance depends on how it is used, says Chuck Powell, ITS senior director of Academic Media & Technology. And, as every Yalie knows, in most cases, this entirely depends on the professor. Most members of the Yale community agree that technology has been beneficial to higher education...
With the rising popularity of online academic resources available to the public, all that is necessary now to sit in on an Ivy League lecture or compare notes with a Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduate is a computer and an Internet connection. Recent years have seen the rise of e-learning opportunities offered by the nation’s top colleges and by...
Facebook’s News Feed home page could have been described as a personalized CNN without the commercials — until last Tuesday, when the popular social network launched SocialAds, which now has ads, too. SocialAds — the latest brainchild of Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg and his Silicon Valley-based Facebook — allows companies to develop profiles that feature...
Ward 22 Alderman Greg Morehead said he wants to keep his new Web site basic. But its development reflects a larger trend — a rise in aldermanic involvement on the Internet. Several New Haven aldermen have increased their presence online in recent months through the use of Web sites, blogs and e-mail lists, which legislators use to communicate better with their...
Imagine a few students sitting in a common room with their laptops, illegally swapping music and movies on the Internet. When they are caught, the punishment is swift and harsh. The federal government revokes their federal financial aid — and the aid of every other student at their school — because the university was not doing enough to police illegal downloading. A...
While for many Yalies, science might mean test tubes and convoluted organic-chemistry equations, several new organizations on campus are showing students it can also be about cardboard boats, time travel and solar-powered race cars. Leaders of three student groups — the Engineering Design Team, “Airships” and Team Lux — said their clubs take new spins on science...
A year from now, 100,000 books from Yale’s libraries will be available online. Just don’t try to search for them on Google. The University announced last week that it has joined forces with Microsoft to digitize thousands of books from Yale’s library system. The partnership comes just a month after a consortium of 19 academic and research libraries around New...
Members of the public no longer need a winning admissions essay to watch Harold Bloom’s Shakespeare lectures, which are now available online as streaming video. And soon, anyone with access to the Internet will be able to listen to “Game Theory” lectures on Apple Computer’s iTunes or use Microsoft’s Live Search interface to virtually leaf through out-of-print...
YaleMail accounts are getting a makeover, and while the face of the program may not change, it is what is on the inside that counts. Last week, Information Technology Services announced plans to update Yale’s entire e-mail infrastructure in early 2008 by upgrading the IMAP protocol to a more secure hybrid environment, Susan Grajek, senior director of ITS Client...
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