Harvard starts teaching open source
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| As with all Harvard case studies, there is no resolution to the dilemma -
| just the open question (pun intended): To open source or not to open source?
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| Not open sourcing, as the case study implies, is a losing game. There is
| simply too much interest in open communities created to develop software in
| the image of those communities, and not in any single vendor's image.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9916323-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
The Secret of Open-Source Project Success
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| What's the secret of success for open-source software projects? The same as
| other teams: trust, cooperation and a broad network of external contacts.
| Those are the main findings contained in an important new working paper by
| researchers at the University of Washington and the University of Texas at
| Dallas. The paper is entitled "Network Effects: The Influence of Structural
| Social Capital on Open Source Project Success."
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http://blogs.cioinsight.com/research_central/content001/open_source/the_secret_of_open_source_project_success.html
http://tinyurl.com/66uz4x
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Harvard to collect, disseminate scholarly articles for faculty
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| In a move to disseminate faculty research and scholarship more broadly, the
| Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted Tuesday (Feb. 12) to give the
| University a worldwide license to make each faculty member’s scholarly
| articles available and to exercise the copyright in the articles, provided
| that the articles are not sold for a profit.
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http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/02.14/99-fasvote.html
Harvard Research to Be Free Online
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| Harvard University will soon begin posting research and articles produced by
| its faculty on the Internet free of charge.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/books/14arts-HARVARDRESEA_BRF.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Protect Harvard from the RIAA
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| One can easily understand why the RIAA wants help from
| universities in facilitating its enforcement actions against
| students who download copyrighted music without paying for it.
| It is easier to litigate against change than to change with it.
| If the RIAA saw a better way to protect its existing business,
| it would not be threatening our students, forcing our librarians
| and administrators to be copyright police, and flooding our
| courts with lawsuits against relatively defenseless families
| without lawyers or ready means to pay. We can even understand
| the attraction of using lawsuits to shore up an aging business
| model rather than engaging with disruptive technologies and the
| risks that new business models entail.
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http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=518638
Harvard's Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Implements
Largest IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer in U.S. Academia
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| The system would currently rank among the top 50 fastest
| supercomputers in the world, according to the latest
| statistics gathered from the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/061019/0174738.html
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