Mike Fitton, CEO of ABK, a Cheshire-based company renting notebook PCs to schools, said: "AAL encourages us very much. Gates said Microsoft's job is to provide software tools for other companies as well as teachers and pupils.
Swarming robots that can act in concert and mimic the behaviour of bees have netted James McLurkin, a 30-year-old doctoral candidate in computer science, the annual Lemelson-MIT Student Prize in the US.
Flatlan, by contrast, lets a student set up a search engine - often on an ordinary dorm room PC - that scours all computers connected to a campus network that have Windows file-sharing turned on. Dan', a university student who runs a Flatlan-style...
Outside of the courts, students at schools such as the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania are being given minicourses in online copyright law as a requirement for signing up for their campus network access.
The drive to put legal digital music services on campus stems largely from meetings held last year between the Recording Industry Association of America and an influential education technology policy group in Washington, D.C.
The university environment is one where demand to be able to work from on-campus and off-campus locations is high and Newcastle University uses thin-client technologies to ensure students and academic staff can do so.