Saturday, June 26, 2004

Best Musical Score (By a Laptop). A computer program that can "judge" piano competitions depends on calculating statistical measures like standard deviations, means and medians. By James Barron. [New York Times: Technology] 9:23:56 AM      Google It!.

University of Wisconsin team creates learning games - DeeDee Wojtal, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Educational Psychology has teamed up with the UW System’s Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab to create new worlds in which people can learn by exploring and doing. "The Department's Learning [Online Learning Update] 9:18:52 AM      Google It!.

Funding for Fedora. The Mellon Foundation has funded Phase 2 of the Fedora Project. Fedora is open-source software for creating OAI-compliant institutional repositories. [Open Access News] 9:15:47 AM      Google It!.

More on the ERIC redesign. ERIC has revised the timetable for its redesign and enlargement. On September 1, 2004, "[t]he new centralized ERIC will provide users with a modernized system that is easy-to-use, comprehensive, and up-to-date, with many free-of-charge full-text resources" and on October 1 "ERIC will introduce, for the first time, free-of-charge full-text non-journal ERIC resources." [Open Access News] 9:15:00 AM      Google It!.

Court Blocks FCC Media Ownership Rules [Slashdot] 9:13:47 AM      Google It!.