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When Microsoft started hunting Yahoo in February, many assumed that the software behemoth would bag the company swiftly and efficiently. Yahoo seemed to be classic weak Web prey, wobbling financially while rival Google continued to dominate the online world. Now, just days after Microsoft's threat to take its modest offer directly to shareholders, Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang is fighting back...
...Baccalaureate (IB) program in Cambridge Public Schools at a public roundtable event yesterday. The IB program proposes “international education” for students ages 3 to 19 “to live, learn, and work in a rapidly globalizing world,” according to its Web site. Schools can offer IB courses either as an alternative or in conjunction with existing curricula. “The subject areas are like courses available now at Cambridge Rindge and Latin,” said Evangeline H. Stefanakis, a Boston University professor who presented aspects of the IB program...
...final round of seniors turn in their theses, a fledgling open-access initiative is encouraging students to make their work accessible to the world. The Free Thesis Project, a Web site run by Harvard College Free Culture, currently allows seniors to upload their theses to an online repository. But while the Web site was launched in April 2007, only 20 students so far have submitted their theses for free and open access. The initiative targeting senior thesis writers parallels a February 12 decision by the University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences to adopt an open-access requirement?...
Harvard-Radcliffe Television (HRTV) will be launching a new video-sharing Web site called “CrimsonClips” this Thursday. The site combines current HRTV productions with videos of campus events and performances uploaded by students. “It’s a YouTube for Harvard that will allow users to rate, share and search for videos,” said HRTV President Michael C. Koenigs ’09. Koenigs said he hopes the new site will “provide an alternative to the over-crowded world of print media at Harvard. We want...
...Princeton. “There are projects that are gathering more data on the present situation.” Russel said that graduate schools should focus on mentoring students and providing realistic expectations for applicants. “Many of us are beginning to put data on the Web that at least show admissions, data completion and attrition data, and placement data,” he said. Russel cited Yale and Duke as graduate schools which have been making online information more available for students, but said that Harvard and his own school Princeton are not up-to-par when...