Word: peering
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...expansion has been gaining momentum ever since a report last year by the Allston Science and Technology Task Force stated that the University was “significantly underinvested” in engineering and needed an infusion of faculty, students, and money in order to maintain its competitiveness with peer institutions...
Nupedia's problem was that it was a centralized, top-down system. The software had seven laborious stages of fact checking and peer review. Then Wales discovered wikis, and the pathological optimist had his eureka moment. His new goal was to create a free encyclopedia for all, in their own language, written by anyone. It took Wikipedia just two weeks to grow larger than its predecessor...
Goldin offers three possible explanations for her findings: peer pressure among professional women to keep their names may have lessened, surname keeping is no longer seen as a symbol of support for women's equality, and the change may reflect a general shift toward more conservative social values...
...initial stages, the names of students being sued are not known. Only the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of users illegally using copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks are known...
...addition to the suits filed against college students, the RIAA press release also stated that new suits were filed against an additional 649 individuals who were illegally distributing copyrighted music via unauthorized peer-to-peer services like KaZaa, LimeWire, and Grokster...