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AUC Higher Education News 25/6/04
April-May Edition
A collection of I.T. news and views relevant to the
tertiary education sector
Edited by Stephen Atherton
(Submissions welcome to s.atherton@uq.net.au)
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This edition contains a wee bit less than the typical news buster editions. Your humble editor is saving it up for a post- developer conference issue in July. Indeed, I type this champagne inhibited verse en route to San Francisco where the WWDC conference is being held next week. WWDC is where the reality field warps and Mr Jobs struts his funky innovative stuff. The place where the new and wonderful is revealed to the über-geek and technophiliac. The promise of the peek at the new Operating System, aka "Tiger" is nearly enough to get this intrepid reporter excited.
These events are a wonder to behold. Literally thousands of developers in one space and one gets an insight into technology directions. The directions are most promising. I personally see ubiquity. The technology touching - but not encroaching- into all corners of one's life. Bring it on. I already display most symptoms of addictive behaviour according to the DSM IV when it comes to technology. I use GPRS when broadband or, perish the thought (it must be like a hit of caffeine to a smack freak), a phone line is unavailable. Heck, if I could, I would only fly Lufthansa now that they offer wireless broadband access on flights <http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2004/06/ichat_at_35k/>. This editions' content quantity would not suffer. A major criteria for a the new car I am hunting for car is whether it has integrated BlueTooth like Saab. It's a worry.
Some of the research HiEdNews has recently touched upon paints an even more enchanting future - paper thin displays, embedded CPUs in watches, nanotechnology, molecular and quantum computing. Although the outcomes of WWDC may be more humble and pedestrian, their ease of use and accessibility is what makes Apples' work both sociologically and technologically interesting.
Watch this space.
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1] AUC stuff- one of the Virginia Tech supercomputer designers talks in Sydney
2] Apple stuff- Play that funky music Airtunes (wirelessly)
3] Apple stuff- new G5 line up
4] Apple stuff- new version of remote Desktop released
5] Apple stuff- post production seminar. Only one session left in Tasmania
6] Apple stuff- QuickTime streams it's way to the top again
7] Apple stuff- iTunes plays for Europe, Australasia still on pause
8] Interesting stuff- U.S. military buy 1,000+ Mac cluster
9] Interesting stuff- online seminars cater to academic diversity
10] Interesting stuff- more U.S. schools want in with 1 notebook per student. Australia set to go
11] Interesting stuff- Brit Ad Standards Authority act on complaints regarding Apple claim to be fastest PC
12] Interesting stuff- First, Do No Harm: A Hippocratic Oath for Software Developers
13] Interesting stuff- Apple and BMW integrate iPod
14] Interesting stuff- former Microsoft employee on why he switched to Mac OS X
15] Interesting stuff- automated & virtual iChat partner plays with your mind
16] Interesting stuff- Pepsi Australia gives away one iPod every hour
17] Interesting stuff- Brit admissions centre to go to electronic applications
18] Legal stuff- Vendors liable for failed systems
19] Legal stuff- Japanese developer and academic arrested
20] Legal stuff- Prof and Grad student patent peer to peer buster
21] Legal stuff- senate bill bans P2P networks
22] Legal stuff- Spotting sex spam
23] Legal stuff- Four accused of hacking into N.C. State police computer
24] Security stuff- BugTraq scientist mauls Microsoft security effort
25] Security stuff- a light hearted look at why PC users have more security glitches than Mac users
26] Security stuff- Web Confidential for storing passwords
27] Security stuff- Worm Attack Could Rack Up $50 Billion In U.S. Damages
28] Security stuff- vigilantes strike back- taking cybersecurity into ones' own CPU
29] Network stuff- VisualRoute for Internet Security & Internet Performance
30] Network stuff- 3G network a few years behind schedule
31] Third party stuff- update to MathType supports Office 2004
32] Third party stuff- Media 100 now support HD video on Mac OS X
33] Third party stuff- text captions for QuickTime movies
34] Third party stuff- XDrawChem Molecule structure drawing software updated
35] Third party stuff- yet another UNIX port- ImageMagick a GIMP or Photoshop alternative?
36] Teaching stuff- June Global Educator edition - on desktop virtual reality gallery
37] Teaching stuff- Aberdeen has student plagiarism under wraps
38] Teaching stuff- A Proven Path of Professional Development for Faculty Pursuing E-Learning
39] Teaching stuff- QUT digital portfolio for students
40] Research stuff- Victorian Laboratory in Partnership
41] Research stuff- framework for bioinformatics file formats
42] Research stuff- Wi-Fi to move in where GPS moves out?
43] Research stuff- University of New Hampshire prof solves police radio problem
44] Research stuff- School internet myths report
45] Research stuff- Active noise silences fans
46] Research stuff- Control and Measurement of Three-Qubit Entangled States
47] Clinical stuff- Madena medical image viewer updated
48] Clinical stuff- QT virtual reality technology in light microscopy to support medical education in pathology
49] What's coming up - relevant events in I.T. & education
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1] AUC stuff- one of the Virginia Tech supercomputer designers talks in Sydney
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This installation has been rated as supercomputer # 3 on the planet.
Thursday 8th July, 1.30pm to 5.00pm. Guthrie Theatre Level 3, Peter Johnson Building. University of Technology Sydney.
"Apple Computer Australia and the Apple University Consortium are pleased to invite you to attend a free seminar to hear about System X. This seminar will showcase how Virginia Tech was able to construct the world's cheapest 'Top 10' super computer using 1100 dual-processor Power Mac G5 computers and Mac OS X Panther. Dr Kevin Shinpaugh is the Director of Research and Cluster Computing at Virginia Tech and was an instrumental member of the team who designed and implemented the supercomputer."
http://auc.uow.edu.au register at:
http://support.apple.com.au/seminars/systemx/
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2] Apple stuff- Play that funky music Airtunes (wirelessly)
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I'll resist placing the Apple PR release here. I'm getting one of these babies - a wireless base station that will connect to my home stereo and stream music from the iTunes playlist on any of my home Macs or the token PC under the desk. Yes please.
http://www.apple.com.au/airportexpress/
Some future directions? Cited Brett Brooks <b.brooks@cqu.edu.au>
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/archives/000214.php
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3] Apple stuff- new G5 line up
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From <http://developer.apple.com/devnews/>
"The new Power Mac G5 desktop line features dual 64-bit PowerPC G5 processors on every model. The top model, featuring two 2.5GHz processors, also has the industry's fastest front-side bus running at 1.25GHz per processor and advanced liquid cooling. The entry model features dual 1.8GHz processors."
http://www.apple.com/powermac/
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4] Apple stuff- new version of remote Desktop released
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"Delivering over 50 new features and countless enhancements, Apple Remote Desktop 2 is a complete desktop management solution for Mac OS X."
http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/
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5] Apple stuff- post production seminar. Only one session left in Tasmania
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Alas, this event was announced after the last issue of HiEdNews, so there is only one session left. The seminar has had great reviews
"Running in major cities through June, the Post-NAB Roadshow seminar covers new Apple technology unveiled earlier this year at NAB. Learn how Motion, Final Cut Pro HD, DVD Studio Pro 3 and Shake continue to push post-production forward."
http://www.apple.com.au/seminars/postnab/
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6] Apple stuff- QuickTime streams it's way to the top again
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From Martin Hill <mart@ozmac.com>
"Looks like Apple's Quicktime at 37% has snuck up on Windows Media (38%) leaving Real Media at 25% in the dust and at the current growth rate is soon to pip Microsoft to the number 1 position in the media streaming market! With MPEG-4 and 3GPP (the mobile phone video standard) being based on Quicktime, and with the AAC format (the audio CODEC of MPEG-4) taking 70% of the legal music download market and iTunes and thus Quicktime being installed on every HP/Compaq computer and on every Founder PC shipped (China's no.2 PC maker) Quicktime is definitely on the ascendency."
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/34390.html
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7] Apple stuff- iTunes plays for Europe, Australasia still on pause
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"Steve Jobs was in London today for the launch of Apple's iTunes service for the UK, France and Germany.iTunes will carry 700,000 songs from the five major record labels and independents, and prices for the download service start at 79 pence or 99 euro cents per song."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/15/itunes_launch/
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/jun/15itunes.html
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8] Interesting stuff- U.S. military buy 1,000+ Mac cluster
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"A U.S. Army contractor has purchased a $5.8 million, 1,566-server supercomputer from Apple Computer, a real-world cousin to an academic system that briefly appeared high on a list of the most powerful machines."
http://news.com.com/Apple+sells+supercomputer+sequel/2100-1010_3-5242487.html?tag=nefd.top
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20040622/bs_nf/25506
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9] Interesting stuff- online seminars cater to academic diversity
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I only recently discovered a whole bunch of online seminars which are worth watching. "Biotech is in our DNA", "Break Through the Barriers to Digital Photography Success", and "Improve Your Presentation Skills." are examples of the range of interests catered to.
http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/
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10] Interesting stuff- more U.S. schools want in with 1 notebook per student. Australia set to go
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1 to 1 notebook programmes really are taking off in the U.S. and after a hugely successful conference in Australia <http://www.1to1conference.com.au/> , look ready to roll in Oz.
Cited Feyi Akindoyeni <feyi.a@asia.apple.com>
"State officials are working with Apple Computer Inc. to determine the minimum level of participation needed for Apple to rent laptops to school districts seeking to expand the program into high schools."
http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/040612laptops.shtml
On the 1 to 1 Conference...
http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/14/1087065069960.html?oneclick=true
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11] Interesting stuff- Brit Ad Standards Authority act on complaints regarding Apple claim to be fastest PC
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Cite prof Roly Sussex <sussex@uq.edu.au>
"A complaint against Apple's claim that its Power Mac G5 was the "world's fastest personal computer" has been upheld by the UK's advertising watchdog. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said that the G5 was not the fastest computer "in all circumstances for all applications"...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3797261.stm
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12] Interesting stuff- First, Do No Harm: A Hippocratic Oath for Software Developers
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"When asked about the Hippocratic Oath, most people are likely to recall the phrase, "First, do no harm." It's a logical response, as even those unfamiliar with the oath could figure out that avoiding additional injury in the course of treatment is critical...sing this theme and some medical metaphors, I offer some observations on the practice of software engineering."
http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=158
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13] Interesting stuff- Apple and BMW integrate iPod
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Cited Greg Basford <gbasford@asia.apple.com>
"CUPERTINO, Calif. and WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., June 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apple® and BMW Group today announced the BMW iPod® Adapter, the first seamless integration between iPod and a car audio system."
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040621/sfm085a_1.html
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14] Interesting stuff- former Microsoft employee on why he switched to Mac OS X
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Cited Andrew Jeffrey <ajeffrey@asia.apple.com>
"A former Microsoftie says addiction to Windows revenue, mediocre products, and missed opportunities could doom Seattle?s most successful company."
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0422/040602_news_microsoft.php
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15] Interesting stuff- automated & virtual iChat partner plays with your mind
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Cited Thomas Esamie <Thomas.Esamie@uts.edu.au>
All one does is add "infocombot" as an aim account to ichat..send it a message..it plays all the old adventure games.
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16] Interesting stuff- Pepsi Australia gives away one iPod every hour
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"Pepsi Australia is trying its hand at an Apple promotional tie-in, but instead of giving away iTunes Music Store songs like their American counterpart, they're giving away 15GB iPods -- one an hour every hour until midnight, July 11, 2004."
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/06/01/pepsiipod/index.php?redirect=1086170576000
http://www.pepsi.com.au/v3/ipod.htm
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17] Interesting stuff- Brit admissions centre to go to electronic applications
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"It is the end of a higher education era: the Ucas form, used by millions of students to sell their talents to university admissions tutors, is to be scrapped after more than 50 years. The paper forms, on which candidates are instructed to print their CVs "boldly in black ink", will be replaced from next year by an electronic system which the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service promises will be faster, easier and more efficient."
http://education.guardian.co.uk/universityaccess/story/0,10670,1245971,00.html
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18] Legal stuff- Vendors liable for failed systems
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Cited Giri Fox <gfox@apple.com>
"IT suppliers may be liable for millions of dollars in damages if they break promises made in the tender process, a legal expert says, citing a recent court of appeal decision against Unisys Australia."
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9650313%5E15317%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html
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19] Legal stuff- Japanese developer and academic arrested
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"Japanese police have arrested the developer of the popular Winny P2P application for breaking the country's copyright laws. Isamu Kaneko, 33, an assistant researcher at Tokyo University, and brains behind the supposedly anonymous file sharing system, is accused of developing software that aids and abets copyright infringement and piracy. Kaneko is one of the first software developers worldwide to face such allegations."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/10/winny_founder_arrested/
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20] Legal stuff- Prof and Grad student patent peer to peer buster
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"A computer science professor and graduate student have been awarded a patent for a method of thwarting illegal file sharing on peer-to-peer networks by flooding the network with bogus files that look like pirated music. The software creates bogus files with attributes -- such as file names and description tags -- that make them look like the real thing, but they are in fact white noise, low-quality recordings or advertisements to buy the song. What's more, the software sends out thousands of decoys to frustrate P2P users with fruitless downloads."
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,63384,00.html
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21] Legal stuff- senate bill bans P2P networks
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"Popular file-trading networks such as Kazaa and Morpheus would be outlawed under a new bill that enjoys broad support from top Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate.Their legislation says "whoever intentionally induces any violation" of copyright law would be legally liable for those violations, a prohibition that would effectively ban file-swapping networks and could also imperil some consumer electronics devices."
http://news.com.com/P2P+bill+draws+key+backing+in+Senate/2100-1027_3-5244796.html
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22] Legal stuff- Spotting sex spam
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"Can worried parents breathe a sigh of relief? Offensive spam should be easier to filter out thanks to a US law that from now on will require sexually explicit emails to carry a warning label. But whether spammers will comply remains to be seen."
New Scientist vol 182 issue 2449 - 29 May 2004, page 5 or http://archive.newscientist.com/secure/article/article.jsp?rp=2&id=mg18224490.700
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23] Legal stuff- Four accused of hacking into N.C. State police computer
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"Four men, three of them students at North Carolina State University, are accused of hacking into the campus police computer and changing the daily list of incidents."
http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=49738&SecID=2
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24] Security stuff- BugTraq scientist mauls Microsoft security effort
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Cited Giri Fox <gfox@apple.com>
"Microsoft's $100 million security improvement initiative has been savagely attacked by one of the world's leading authorities on Windows vulnerabilities, with claims the software behemoth's security gets worse rather than better with every OS upgrade. TruSecure senior scientist and NT BugTraq list editor, Russ Cooper told delegates at the AusCert 2004 conference in Queensland last week that, by his statistical reckoning, most Windows users were better off sticking with older versions such as NT 4.0 and deploying security measures other than patching."
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=822617977&eid=-6787
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25] Security stuff- a light hearted look at why PC users have more security glitches than Mac users
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Cited Doug Wilson <djgrafix@westnet.com.au>
"Here?s a billion-dollar question: Why are Windows users besieged by security exploits, but Mac users are not?"
http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/broken_windows
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26] Security stuff- Web Confidential for storing passwords
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"Where do you keep your confidential data? Like most people these days, you've probably got a growing number of user IDs, passwords, registration keys, PIN codes, serial numbers, and the like, stored in various places on your computer or scribbled on miscellaneous pieces of paper around your home or office. When you stop and think about it, you probably have more of these pesky bits of information scattered about than you realize."
http://www.web-confidential.com/
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27] Security stuff- Worm Attack Could Rack Up $50 Billion In U.S. Damages
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"A worst-case worm attack on the United States could easily cost the country $50 billion in direct damages, a pair of security experts said recently. Nicholas Weaver and Vern Paxson, security researchers who work with the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), a nonprofit research group associated with the University of California at Berkeley, modeled a worst-case scenario in which state-sponsored attackers construct a worm exploiting an unpublished vulnerability, then launch it over the Internet."
http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/content.cfm?articleid=4129&PID=20261728&EID=676
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28] Security stuff- vigilantes strike back- taking cybersecurity into ones' own CPU
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"When law fails and enforcement won't work, desperate citizens may take matters into their own hands". An intersting looks at security futures.
New Scientist 12 June 2004. P 26
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29] Network stuff- VisualRoute for Internet Security & Internet Performance
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"(ShareWare) VisualRoute provides an automated analysis and quick identification of where Internet connectivity problems occur, enables you to easily provide domain and network administrators proof of Internet connectivity problems etc"
http://www.visualware.com/personal/products/visualroute/index.html
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30] Network stuff- 3G network a few years behind schedule
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"AMSTERDAM -- Third-generation mobile phone services are finally here after a mammoth effort that cost the industry at least $123 billion, but new systems that operate much faster already threaten to consign 3G to history. The new technologies would offer cheaper and faster Web connections and the high-quality video that 3G promised but has not delivered, and regulators are preparing to let operators decide for themselves which system they want to use."
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,63700,00.html
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31] Third party stuff- update to MathType supports Office 2004
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"Design Science MathType? for Windows and Macintosh is a powerful interactive tool that will revolutionize the way you create print and web-based documents that contain math. MathType works with any word processor, presentation program, page layout program, HTML-authoring tool, plus other types of software, to create equations for research papers, class materials, web pages, slide presentations, journal articles and books.... Office 2004 supported"
http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype/
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32] Third party stuff- Media 100 now support HD video on Mac OS X
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"Media 100 HD is a new HD- and SD-native video system that gives editors Mac OS X support for 10-bit uncompressed HD and SD I/O, native HD editing, native SD editing, broadcast format conversion between any HD and SD formats in real time, and the ability to mix and match HD and SD source in the same timeline."
http://www.media100.com/Media100HD.asp
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33] Third party stuff- text captions for QuickTime movies
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"The world?s only complete captioning system on a CD. Comes with all the software encoding features of CCaption, so you do not lose a generation when making captioned copies. Plus it?s packed with caption formatting and time-stamping features."
http://www.ccaption.com/cap_softwaremac.shtml
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34] Third party stuff- XDrawChem Molecule structure drawing software updated
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"XDrawChem is a two-dimensional molecule drawing program for Unix operating systems. It is similar in functionality to other molecule drawing programs such as ChemDraw (TM, CambridgeSoft). It can read and write MDL Molfiles, and read ChemDraw text and binary files, to allow sharing between XDrawChem and other chemistry applications, and it can create images in popular formats like PNG and EPS. XDrawChem has been tested on Linux, SGI IRIX 6.5, Sun Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows."
http://xdrawchem.sourceforge.net/
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35] Third party stuff- yet another UNIX port- ImageMagick a GIMP or Photoshop alternative?
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"ImageMagickTM 6.0.2 is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 89 major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF. With ImageMagick you can create images dynamically, making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image or image sequence and save your completed work in the same or differing image format"
http://www.imagemagick.org/
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36] Teaching stuff- June Global Educator edition - on desktop virtual reality gallery
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"David (Vinciguerra) writes about the creation of an online virtual environment gallery to showcase student work in designing Virtual Reality Environments. The initial intention was to have examples to show what a 'Virtual Environment' was to new/potential students online, but a major benefit was that the motivation and quality of student work improved, student involvement and communication increased and students were more inspired to learn how to create virtual worlds and share their virtual environments with others."
http://www.globaled.com/
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37] Teaching stuff- Aberdeen has student plagiarism under wraps
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"Students who plagiarise essays from the internet could be detected by software able to check their work against 4.5 billion web pages. The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen says the Turnitin tool can search 800 million websites and previously submitted work for copying. The move comes amid concern over a 'cut and paste culture', which allows students to cheat more easily. The University of Kent at is also running detection software trials."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3765927.stm
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38] Teaching stuff- A Proven Path of Professional Development for Faculty Pursuing E-Learning
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"University faculty who have braved the transition from the traditional classroom to an e-learning instructor role report many changes. Most describe the knowledge gained from the e-learning world as making them better teachers in all delivery venues."
http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A4854.cfm
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39] Teaching stuff- QUT digital portfolio for students
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"Students at QUT are abandoning paper and going high-tech in their search for jobs. The QUT Student Portfolio has been launched to enables students to compile a comprehensive online record of their achievements - for their own access and employers'. The sophisticated, fully integrated e-portfolios are controlled by students and contain their academic results as well as details of projects, skills and attributes developed during their university years."
http://www.news.qut.edu.au/cgi-bin/WebObjects/News.woa/wa/goNewsPage?newsEventID=2653
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40] Research stuff- Victorian Laboratory in Partnership
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"National ICT Australia (NICTA), Australia?s centre of excellence in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and the University of Melbourne today announced an agreement with the Victorian Government to set up a Victorian NICTA Laboratory. The Laboratory will be based at the University of Melbourne, which will make an in-kind and cash contribution of up to $20 million over five years. This comprises world-class research talent and premises for the Laboratory. NICTA plans to invest over $25 million in that same period."
http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/articleid_1514.html
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41] Research stuff- framework for bioinformatics file formats
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From <http://developer.apple.com/devnews/>
"The BioCocoa framework provides developers with the opportunity to add support for reading and writing 10 of the most commonly used file formats in bioinformatics and phylogenetics. With only 3 lines of code, any Cocoa application can provide support for these file formats."
http://bioinformatics.org/biococoa/
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42] Research stuff- Wi-Fi to move in where GPS moves out?
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"Deep in the concrete canyons of city centres, GPS often fails because high buildings block the signals they rely on. But an unlikely back-up for GPS is emerging that works best in cities and inside cavernous complexes like shopping malls: Wi-Fi."
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996058
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43] Research stuff- University of New Hampshire prof solves police radio problem
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"WHEN Scott Summerfeldt turned off his computer one night after work, he was amazed at just how quiet his office suddenly became. He hadn't realised how noisy the fan in his PC was, so he decided to do something about it. And this week he announced the results of his efforts to a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in New York."
New Scientist vol 182 issue 2449 - 29 May 2004, page 22 or http://archive.newscientist.com/secure/article/article.jsp?rp=2&id=mg18224493.300
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44] Research stuff- School internet myths report
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"Children are confused about the dangers posed by using the internet with some believing it puts them at risk of catching HIV or being abducted by aliens, according to research published today. Schools should do more to address such false and exaggerated fears about the internet, which may prevent some children from exploiting its benefits, said researchers from the University of London's institute of education (IoE)."
http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,1233341,00.html
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45] Research stuff- Active noise silences fans
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"Squashing bugs in a police radio system has led to international recognition for a University of New Hampshire professor - and a possible patent for the school that could drastically change police radio testing."
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=39670
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46] Research stuff- Control and Measurement of Three-Qubit Entangled States
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"We report the deterministic creation of maximally entangled three-qubit states?specifically the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state and the W state?with a trapped-ion quantum computer. We read out one of the qubits selectively and show how GHZ and W states are affected by this local measurement. Additionally, we demonstrate conditional operations controlled by the results from reading out one qubit."
Science, Vol 304,Issue 5676,1478-1480, 4 June 2004
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47] Clinical stuff- Madena medical image viewer updated
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"Madena is a medical image viewer and image processing tool. Madena can open all QuickTime compatible image file formats as well as import most Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) and ACR/NEMA file formats. DICOM is the current industry standard for medical images and is widely used for CT, MR and US images. Madena can open both individual image files or all image files found within a folder and (optionally) all enclosed subfolders in a single command."
http://radonc.usc.edu/USCRadOnc/Madena/Madena.html
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48] Clinical stuff- Quicktime virtual reality technology in light microscopy to support medical education in pathology
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"The new computer-based interactive technologies in medicine, such as virtual reality (VR), have revolutionized education. The use of virtual microscopic images would be invaluable in the training of cyto-histopathologists. However, due to the vast amount of digital information on a scanned, conventional cyto-histological slide, which is enormous by current data storage standards, these systems are expensive and not widely used in pathological medicine. The authors propose an inexpensive system based on quicktime virtual reality (QTVR) technology (by Apple Computers Inc.), which accommodates a wide area of a slide at high magnification, generating a 'virtual slide' which makes it possible to navigate by conventional input devices"
Modern Pathology (2004) 17, 728-731 or http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/modpathol/journal/v17/n6/abs/3800113a.html
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49] What's coming up - relevant events in I.T. & education
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June 21 - 26, 2004
Ed-Media. Word Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications.
Lugano, Switzerland
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/
28 June - 2 July, 2004
Worldwide Developers Conference
San Francisco, USA
http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/
1 - 3 July , 2004
Fifth International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Education
Samos Island, Greece.
http://www.ineag.gr/ICICTE
4 - 8 July, 2004
The Third Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF3)
Dunedin, New Zealand
http://www.col.org/pcf3/
3 - 7 July, 2004
AusWeb 04.
Seaworld Nara Resort, Gold Coast. Australia
http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/
4 - 7 July, 2004
QUESTnet 2004 Conference
Networking Far and Wide (Reticulation to regional and metropolitan areas)
Cairns International Hotel, Cairns, Australia
http://www.jcu.edu.au/questnet2004/
6 - 7 July, 2004
8th International Computer Assisted Assessment (CAA) Conference
Loughborough University, UK
http://www.caaconference.com/
22 - 23 July, 2004
Successes and Failures in Telehealth. 4th Annual International Conference
University of Queensland, Australia
http://www.uq.edu.au/sft/index.html?page=10559
4 - 6 August, 2004
20th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/
16 - 18 August, 2004
CATE 2004- International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education
Kauai, Hawaii, USA
http://www.iasted.com/conferences/2004/hawaii/cate.htm
23 - 27 August, 2004
The University of Calgary is pleased to host the Best Practices in e-Learning Online Conference. This conference will take place totally online so you can participate without the cost and inconvenience of traveling. The pre-conference workshops will take place the week before the main conference.
http://elearn.ucalgary.ca/conference/
29 August - 2 September, 2004
CAUDIT-EDUCAUSE Institute
Coolangatta, Australia
http://www.caudit.edu.au/caudit/caudit/institute/institute2004/index.html
5 - 8 September, 2004
Digital Resources for the Humanities
University of Newcastle, UK
http://drh2004.ncl.ac.uk
9 - 10 September, 2004
International Conference of Educational Technology 2004 by NIE and MOE
Singapore
http://www.icet.com.sg/files\home.htm
12 - 17 September, 2004
European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) 2004
University of Bath, UK
http://www.ecdl2004.org/
14 - 16 September, 2004
ALT-C 2004- Blue skies and pragmatism: learning technologies for the next decade
Exeter, Devon, UK
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2004
25 - 28 September, 2004
WebCT 5th Annual Asia-Pacific User Conference
Manly Beach, Sydney, Australia
http://www.webct.com/asiapacific04
9 October, 2004
The eXpo Conference
Auckland Uni Technology. NZ
http://digitalevents.co.nz/expo_main.html
13 - 16 October, 2004
The Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21 Century EEI21 - 2004
The University of Memphis. USA
http://www.memphis.edu/ethics21
19 - 22 October, 2004
EDUCAUSE 2004 Conference. IT From A Higher Vantage Point
Denver, Colorado. USA
http://www.educause.edu/conference/annual/2004/
30 November - 3 December, 2004
ICCE2004 : International Conference on Computers in Education
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.rmit.edu.au/bus/icce2004
1 - 3 December, 2004
Online Educa Berlin 2004
Berlin, Germany
http://www.online-educa.com/en/
5 - 8 December, 2004
ASCILITE Conference 2004 - Beyond the Comfort Zone
The University of Western Australia. Perth, Australia
http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth04/
15 - 17 December, s004
IADIS International Conference. Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2004)
Lisbon, Portugal
http://www.iadis.org/celda2004/