Henry Ford Community College (HFCC) is providing its students with leading-edge tools and top-notch educational programs to prepare them for future careers. Recently, the Community College hosted its annual Non-Traditional Seminar for Women in Technology at its Dearborn campus. The…
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In early 2005, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary (NOAA) in Alpena received a grant to connect its new facility, the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center, to Internet2 and provide educational programs across the network.…
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Ontario's and Michigan's advance research networks will soon start transmitting gigabits of data over radio waves across the Canada-U.S. border, using wireless links instead of fibre optic cable. The new connection will support a massive 1Gbps back-up link between ORION…
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ANN ARBOR - July 1, 2008 will mark the 20th anniversary of the T1 backbone of the NSFNET, the nation's first high-speed backbone network. This significant technological achievement signaled the start of a revolution in computer networking and spurred the…
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) reissued the words that started the Internet revolution 20 years ago today: "The NSFnet Backbone has reached a state where we would like to more officially let operational traffic on." That was the email sent…
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ANN ARBOR - For the tenth consecutive year, Merit Network hosted individuals from its Member organizations and from around Michigan at the two-day Merit Member Conference (MMC) on June 12 and 13 in Ann Arbor. Advanced networking, "green computing," information…
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Motor City residents with big-screen dreams experienced a little bit of Hollywood in Livonia when Madonna University hosted Project Accessible Hollywood's second annual PAH-fest Digital Media Festival. The festival was created by Christopher Coppola, nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola…
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You drive on it. Your house's foundation is built on it. People even use it for their kitchen countertops. Not sure what "it" is? It is concrete, and Alpena Community College (ACC) has become a leader in teaching the techniques…
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ANN ARBOR - Merit Network engineers recently lit a newly completed fiber optic connection to OSCnet, Ohio's regional research and education network, and began sending data across the 10 Gigabit path. The new fiber link provides Merit with a second…
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"More look up and admire the stars. A champion climbs a mountain and grabs one." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Students in Jackson County now have an easier time to view the stars and distant galaxies thanks to the efforts…
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