Cloud Computing

The Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities in partnership with the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship hosted a roundtable on “Cloud Computing and Disability Communities: How Can Cloud Computing Support a More Accessible Information Age and Society?” The roundtable brought together leaders in industry, education, public policy, disability advocacy, and government to explore [...]

Silicon Flatirons, a center for law, technology, and entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado, in partnership with the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities, will host a public workshop on Implications of Cloud Computing for People with Cognitive Disabilities. The workshop will bring together leaders from industry, education, public policy, disability, advocacy, and government with a shared [...]

Business Insider  
Facebook has named the first recipients of its new fellowship program for Ph.D. candidates doing research in areas related to “the social web and internet technology,” reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The five fellowships went to students working in cloud computing, social computing, behavioral economics, machine learning, and internet economics. The fellowships cover tuition [...]

THE Journal  
Cloud computing and gaming are among the six technologies that will have a major positive impact on K-12 education in the next few years, according to researchers. But education also faces some critical challenges in that timeframe, including challenges that may require fundamental changes to the way we educate in the United States. This [...]

Stress tests conducted by Sydney-based researchers have revealed that the infrastructure-on-demand services offered by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft suffer from regular performance and availability issues. The team of researchers, led by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in collaboration with other groups, spent seven months stress-testing Amazon’s EC2, Google’s AppLogic, and Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing [...]