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Carnegie Mellon university, Yahoo! to work on Open Source Supercomputing Project

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Carnegie Mellon University will become the first higher education institution to work with Yahoo!'s M45, a new project by the Internet firm designed to advance distributed computing research and software development.

The program, which leverages the Apache Software Foundation's open-source Hadoop, will allow researchers to test software running on a Yahoo!-provided 4,000-processor supercomputer. According to Yahoo!, its M45 project differs from other supercomputing projects in that it's focused exclusively on pushing the boundaries of large-scale systems software research. For the program, Yahoo! will make available to researchers a 4,000-processor computing cluster capable of performing 27 teraFLOPS and sporting 3 TB of memory and 1.5 petabytes of storage. It will run the latest version of Hadoop and other open-source software, including, the Pig parallel programming language. Carnegie Mellon will solve challenging information retrieval and large-scale graph problems on the cluster. Yahoo! plans to make M45 available to other institutions for research in the future

No Indian varsity among world’s top 200 universities

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No Indian University, including the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology, has figured among world's top 200 universities in The Times Higher – Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings, while six Chinese universities have found place in the list.

Harvard University tops the league table followed by Cambridge and Oxford at second and third positions respectively. The top 10 universities are all either in the US or the Britain, a survey has found. Besides China, other Asian countries figuring in the list of world-class universities are Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea. The IITs, which figured regularly in all the previous rankings, since The Times Higher – Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings which began three years ago, have fallen off the map this year partly because of a change in evaluation norms. For this year's survey, individual IITs were assessed, and not the IIT system as a whole. And none of the seven IITs was considered good enough to find a place among the top ranking world universities. However, IIT Delhi and IIT Mumbai find mention among the world's top 50 technology institutions, with the former at 37 and latter at 33 – both way behind China's Tsinghua University, placed at 16.

Rwanda takes ICT to street kids

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Rwanda will launch an extensive campaign aimed at taking Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to street boys in the country.

The project, initiated in Africa by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is aimed at equipping every Rwandan child with a laptop. The laptops would also be given out to children in all primary schools in the country. Last month's Connect Africa International summit on ICT, set the goal of ensuring internet access to every African by 2012. At least US$ 300 million will be invested in projects which will promote Information and Communication Technology in Africa.

NIIT, NComputing team up for low-cost education in Indian schools

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NIIT's School Learning Solutions has partnered with US-based NComputing Inc to offer affordable computer education in schools across India.

As a part of the agreement NIIT, which offers computer and computer-aided education to 1.5 million students in over 5,000 schools, would bring its expertise and reach in schools while NComputing would offer its technology. Under the NComputing solution, each user would be connected to the main terminal, so that they can simultaneously work on different applications such as word processing, Internet browsing, e-mail and spreadsheets among others. NComputing access devices and software can allow up to 30 users to access the capability of a single PC. NIIT has already deployed the solution in 20 schools across the country under the 'NIIT School Station' project, and is also in talks with various State Governments to implement the project.

IGNOU to help DU to strengthen its distant education mode

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Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is willing to collaborate with Delhi university to provide technical support in order to strengthen its distant education mode.

As a part of the IGNOU's convergence scheme, this scheme will bridge the gap between the conventional mode of education and the distant mode. IGNOU has started involving several universities in strengthening the distance education system in the country. IGNOU is planning to involve 20 leading universities of the country to empower distance education. The government has a target to have 40 per cent of the students in higher education in distant mode by 2012.

Online Educa e-Learning to be held in Berlin

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Online Educa, the major international e-learning conference and exhibition this year will be held in Berlin, Germany during November 28-30.

More than 2,000 learning and technology experts are expected to gather for the event including120 international e-learning developers, producers, service providers and educational organisations from 25 countries. Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK will represent their national e-learning industry and educational institutions with considerable numbers. Amongst the exhibitors are leading e-learning companies and organisations such as the British Institute for Learning and Development, the Norwegian Ministry of Education, the Swedish Agency for Networks and Cooperation in Higher Education, the Association of Finnish eLearning Centre and the German-Dutch Chamber of Commerce. The conference provides insights into all aspects of technology issues related to today's learning. Virtual worlds such as Second Life, Web 2.0 applications for learning, games-based learning, e-learning in the corporate context as well as video applications in learning are high on the agenda. The use of technology at all stages of formal learning will be examined, from school to higher education, and there will be a major emphasis on lifelong learning initiatives all over Europe. 

Nigeria introduces ICT into primary school curriculum

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Nigerian introduces Information and Communication Technology into the primary school curriculum following the launch of a new basic education curriculum for primary and junior secondary schools in the country.

The new curriculum, which has been approved by the National Council of Education (NCE), is aimed at addressing, among others, issues of value re- orientation, poverty eradication, critical thinking, entrepreneurship and life skills. A major feature of the new curriculum is the phasing out of primary science and integrated science, to be replaced by Basic Science and Technology.

Intel Introduces Digital Transformation Projects to Morocco

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Intel has announced a joint project with Morocco's Department of Telecommunications and Information Technology (D.E.P.T.I.), with the aim of developing public Internet access centers and has collaborated with the Ministry of Education to train teachers and donate 1,000 Intel-powered Classmate PCs to Moroccan primary schools over the next few years.

Intel is enabling Internet technology by introducing computers to help Moroccco's 33 million people leverage the opportunities of the modern digital age. Intel Chairman Craig Barrett offered digital accessibility and education. Intel and Morocco's Ministry of ICT have also installed a new WiMAX network at Saad Ibn Abi Al Ouakass School. The long-range wireless technology offers an affordable means of delivering high-speed Internet access in rural communities. Intel has already trained 4,500 teachers in Morocco and is looking to train 25,000 by the end of 2008 through the Intel Teach program, which introduces technology into the curriculum for better education. These efforts are in line with the Ministry of Education's program called GENIE. Intel is also looking to launch an online version of the Teach program in Morocco next year.

BSNL to connect 40,000 primary and secondary schools across India

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Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd's (BSNL) Wi-Max launch next year will incorporate a major educational component with the successful bidder likely to connect 40,000 primary and secondary schools across the country with wireless broadband.

There is already an MoU to this effect between the Human Resource Development ministry and Department of Telecommunication, BSNL official said. A pilot project has already started in eight cities. BSNL has announced that the company would call for expressions of interest in about a week for deploying 2 million Wi-Max lines. The order size is reportedly to be about Rs 2,000 crore and will be able to cover some 25,000 villages in a year. This is reportedly one of the biggest tender proposals in the world for Wi-Max equipment and the deployment of the technology on such a wide-scale. The project will also include wiring up some 50,000 plus internet kiosks across the country.

Bringing the Learning Ecosystem Closer : Ram Narayanan, Director – Unlimited Potential Group, Microsoft India

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Along with Project Shiksha under the Unlimited Potential Programme, Microsoft India has already signed closed to 10 MoUs with Government, trained 160,000 teachers, runs eight IT academies across India, reaches out to over 8 mn students…

Ram Narayanan, Director, Unlimited Potential Group, Microsoft India speaks out to digital LEARNING about building this ecosystem stronger in education.

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