Wikipedia Inspires Course Reading List Generator
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| Taking cues from the structure of Wikipedia and the algorithms used
| by Google, Alexander Wissner-Gross, a Harvard Ph.D. candidate, has
| developed software to automatically create reading lists for students
| based on the subjects they're studying. He experimented with
| algorithms to find the most important pages and how they ranked
| for a given topic.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/54970.html
Related:
University of Regina offers open source course
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| In recent years, software giants like Microsoft have found open source
| software like Linux and Firefox nipping at their heels.
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| Open source software is typically available for free and is set up so
| that programmers around the world can tinker with the code and make
| improvements.
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| [...]
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| Now, the University of Regina has joined the fray, launching its
| first senior-level course in open source software development.
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/02012007/3/canada-u-r-offers-open-source-course.html
IBM, schools pursue open-source research
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| The program calls for researchers at IBM and the universities
| to work together on software projects in such fields as privacy
| and security, then release the results as open-source programming
| code that anyone can use or alter.
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-12-14-ibm-universities-research_x.htm?csp=34
The Case for Linux in Universities
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| Universities which do these things will better prepare their students
| for the real world, find themselves in a stronger bargaining position
| when it's time to renew their contracts with Microsoft, and spend less
| money on software and computer security problems.
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http://openubuntu.blogspot.com/2006/12/case-for-linux-in-universities.html
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