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	<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 16:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Google changes name searches</title>
		<link>http://informatics.iupui.edu/blogs/blog/2009/05/08/google-changes-name-searches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 16:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Moore</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ San Francisco - Google is giving people influence over what information turns up during online searches on their names.  The California Internet search king began on Tuesday featuring voluntarily created Google profiles at the bottoms of US &#8220;name-query&#8221; pages.
Full details here.
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		<title>Disney supports fellowships at Carnegie Mellon U. in honor of Randy Pausch</title>
		<link>http://informatics.iupui.edu/blogs/blog/2009/02/09/disney-supports-fellowships-at-carnegie-mellon-u-in-honor-of-randy-pausch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Moore</dc:creator>
		
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[source: The Chronicle of Higher Education]
The Walt Disney Company announced late last week that it has endowed the creation of two graduate fellowships at Carnegie Mellon University in honor of Randy Pausch, the late computer-science professor who delivered an inspiring “last lecture” at the university about making dreams come true.
Mr. Pausch died of pancreatic cancer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq university presidents  visit U.S., eager to build partnerships</title>
		<link>http://informatics.iupui.edu/blogs/blog/2009/02/06/iraq-university-presidents-visit-us-eager-to-build-partnerships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Moore</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Al Anbar Governorate]]></category>

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[source: The Chronicle of Higher Education]
A delegation of Iraqi university presidents visiting the United States this month has a message for their American colleagues: We&#8217;re ready to do business.
The seven presidents, who represent universities from across Iraq, are meeting with higher-education officials as part of a trip sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google unveils cellphone version of digital-book collection</title>
		<link>http://informatics.iupui.edu/blogs/blog/2009/02/05/google-unveils-cellphone-version-of-digital-book-collection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Moore</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Computing]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Mobile phone]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Searching]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[This Side of Paradise]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wuthering Heights]]></category>

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[source: The Chronicle of Higher Education]
Google today unveiled what could be the largest collection of digital books formatted for cellphones. The company took 1.5 million of the books it has scanned through its partnership with several major college libraries and prepped them for the small screen of iPhones or phones using Google’s Android operating system.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer program wants to free scholars from computer distractions</title>
		<link>http://informatics.iupui.edu/blogs/blog/2009/02/05/computer-program-wants-to-free-scholars-from-computer-distractions/</link>
		<comments>http://informatics.iupui.edu/blogs/blog/2009/02/05/computer-program-wants-to-free-scholars-from-computer-distractions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Moore</dc:creator>
		
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[source: The Chronicle of Higher Education]
In order to be free, the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau claimed, humans must sometimes surrender a measure of freedom.
Fred Stutzman, a Ph.D. student and teaching fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, may not have had Rousseau in mind when he created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIT researchers make &#8217;sixth sense&#8217; gadget</title>
		<link>http://informatics.iupui.edu/blogs/blog/2009/02/05/mit-researchers-make-sixth-sense-gadget/</link>
		<comments>http://informatics.iupui.edu/blogs/blog/2009/02/05/mit-researchers-make-sixth-sense-gadget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Moore</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Tom Cruise]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Touchscreen]]></category>

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[source: AFP)
US university researchers have created a portable &#8220;sixth sense&#8221; device powered by commercial products that can seamlessly channel Internet information into daily routines.
The device created by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists can turn any surface into a touch-screen for computing, controlled by simple hand gestures.
The gadget can even take photographs if a user [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Founder of Singularity University talks about his unusual new institution</title>
		<link>http://informatics.iupui.edu/blogs/blog/2009/02/04/founder-of-singularity-university-talks-about-his-unusual-new-institution/</link>
		<comments>http://informatics.iupui.edu/blogs/blog/2009/02/04/founder-of-singularity-university-talks-about-his-unusual-new-institution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Moore</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Peter Diamandis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ray Kurzweil]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Singularity Is Near]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology]]></category>

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[source: The Chronicle of Higher Education]
Today a well-known entrepreneur, leaders from NASA, and a futurist known for his claims that machines will soon outsmart humans announced the creation of an unusual academic institution called the Singularity University.
The university’s goal is to encourage the cross-fertilization of ideas across a range of high-tech disciplines in which major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Americans increasingly see college as essential and worry more about access, poll finds</title>
		<link>http://informatics.iupui.edu/blogs/blog/2009/02/04/americans-increasingly-see-college-as-essential-and-worry-more-about-access-poll-finds/</link>
		<comments>http://informatics.iupui.edu/blogs/blog/2009/02/04/americans-increasingly-see-college-as-essential-and-worry-more-about-access-poll-finds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Moore</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Financial Aid]]></category>

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[source: The Chronicle of Higher Education]
 By SARA HEBEL 
The proportion of Americans who view a higher education as being necessary to succeed economically has risen sharply this decade, but the percentage who believe that the vast majority of people who are qualified for college have the opportunity to go has dwindled over the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;No frills&#8217; campus in New Hampshire saves students tens of thousands of dollars</title>
		<link>http://informatics.iupui.edu/blogs/blog/2009/02/04/no-frills-campus-in-new-hampshire-saves-students-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars/</link>
		<comments>http://informatics.iupui.edu/blogs/blog/2009/02/04/no-frills-campus-in-new-hampshire-saves-students-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Moore</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Bachelor's degree]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Boston Globe]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Colleges and Universities]]></category>

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[source: The Chronicle of Higher Education]
Two weeks ago, Pennsylvania’s State Board of Education drew attention for proposing to create a “no frills” four-year college that would offer a cut-rate bachelor’s degree by focusing on instruction and skipping amenities, like sports teams and posh dorms, that run up tuition bills. For pointers on how to bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A single electronic source is needed for textbooks</title>
		<link>http://informatics.iupui.edu/blogs/blog/2009/02/03/a-single-electronic-source-is-needed-for-textbooks/</link>
		<comments>http://informatics.iupui.edu/blogs/blog/2009/02/03/a-single-electronic-source-is-needed-for-textbooks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Moore</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Community college]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[File sharing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[source: The Chronicle of Higher Education]


By JOSEPH STORCH
Students still obtain most educational content through textbooks and other printed materials, in the same way they have for centuries. But as technology has changed, they&#8217;ve been able to gain access to more of that content digitally — and often illegally. In fact, without some action, we in [...]]]></description>
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