On Friday the rebranded and expanded laboratory officially reopens as the Corning Research Centre with a brief to find ways of speeding up optical communications. Last month Compaq announced plans to phase out Alpha production by 2004 in favour of...
Broadcasting House has already submitted an application to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport for its service, which would see it provide interactive online learning materials to support the UK school curriculum.
Other sites involved in running the TeraGrid are Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago, Indiana University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Purdue University and Texas Advanced Computing Center.
Schools are failing to take advantage of IT in the classroom as teachers worry computers will interfere with traditional book-based learning, according to a new academic study. The four-year University of Bristol study, InterActive Education...
It's not just kids that are taught how to use technology in schools - teachers and education authorities are learning that IT can help them with their jobs too. Some schools are using handheld devices to take registers in order to keep better tabs...
OSA projects include developing guidance on recycling old PCs, and the Open Source Laboratory which allows local authorities to test software without compromising their own live networks. The whole reason for doing this was as a learning experience.