Posts Tagged: Vanderbilt

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7
Nov 06

Vanderbilt in Web 2.0 Style

I have just noticed that Vanderbilt has a website for the student community: InsideVandy. The tagline says it is Vanderbilt University’s online student community. It is a site with content created by the students for the students. I think this is a great initiative by Vandy. About page reveals that this is a project of the Student Media at Vanderbilt University.

The website is built on Drupal as it is evident from the site icon and the install directory. The design looks neat. But most importantly it is a platform for Vandy students to voice their opinions and interact with other students. Registered users can have a blog, post pictures, and submit stories. I have no idea if this is precedented. If so, I would like to see what other university has this kind of a website that lets students create content and blog.

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18
Apr 06

Dirty Bomb Detection and Localization

It is not my research area but Information Processing in Sensor Networks conference will be held in Nashville this year starting from tomorrow. ISIS will be involved with a large scale sensor network demo called Dirty Bomb Detection and Localization on Thursday April 20th. The demo will be held in the Vanderbilt Football Stadium. There are more technical details on the demo website but to summarize, the goal is to be able to track a security guard with plain clothing who will be walking around the stadium with a cell phone-integrated radiation detector. The tracking will be done using a technique called radio interferometric positioning technique developed at ISIS.

If you think this is cool, even cooler news is that there is a Google Earth based user interfacewhich can be used to watch the demo live.

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20
Oct 05

Vanderbilt Adds FreshTracksMusic to VUMix

Vanderbilt is offering Napster as a legal download option to students (and faculty and staff) for a rate of $2/month during the academic year for at least a year.

Vanderbilt Register reports that the university is starting to offer FreshTracksMusic as a new legal download option. The difference of FreshTracksMusic from Napster is that, FreshTracksMusic features independent and usigned artists. Moreoever, unlike Vanderbilt’s Napster offering, subscribers will be able listen to the tracks/albums they have purchased either on their PCs or portable music players, and burn them to a CD without any limitations. This sounds very much like the business of eMusic. The low subscription fee will be $3/month for this unlimited service.

Vanderbilt will be the first customer of FreshTracksMusic whose cofounders are Vanderbilt alumnus. The service now seems to be added to Vanderbilt’s VUMix website. FreshTracksMusic’s Vanderbilt page can be reached here.

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30
Sep 05

Vanderbilt Blocks Three P2P Programs

Vanderbilt University announced yesterday that three peer-to-peer file sharing programs, namely, Gnutella, E-Donkey, and Direct Connect on Monday Oct 3, at 8 a.m.

The university says they were monitoring the traffic from file sharing programs and they use up more than third of the university’s bandwidth.

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28
Sep 05

Vanderbilt Encourages Google Personalize Homepage

It just came to my attention that Vanderbilt library’s wiki, which I did not know existed, is giving guidelines to add their feeds to the Google’s personalized homepage.

[Via InsideGoogle]

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18
May 05

Vanderbilt News RSS Feeds

Apperantly, Vanderbilt News also has RSS feeds.It will definitely make me follow the news more closely from now on. You can subscribe to the RSS feeds here. Seems like the news feed is the same as the podcast feed.

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