Programs and Projects

George Mason University's Technology Across the Curriculum Program has established ten technology goals that have the greatest relevance for liberal arts students. These goals were developed with input from faculty, students, technology professionals, and prospective employers.

This is Cornell University's web site on sustainable computing. Resources found here include a guide to sustainable computing, computing energy conservation, recycling and green purchasing.

The University at Buffalo's goal is to reduce UB's "environmental footprint" by getting more university offices, departments, units, and organizations involved in green campus activities.

FreeCulture.org is an international chapter-based student organization that promotes the public interest in intellectual property and information & communications technology policy.

The UC Berkeley People Locator is a web-based contact system to provide information to members of the UC Berkeley community and to their families and friends in the event of an emergency affecting the campus.

The Fluid Project is an international community of academic institutions, community source software projects and corporations working together to address the precarious values of usability, accessibility, internationalization, quality assurance and security within academic software projects.

Fluid combines both design and technology to create a living library of sharable user interface components that can be reused across community source projects. These components are built specifically to support flexibility and customization while maintaining a high standard of design quality. The Fluid framework will enable designers and developers to build user interfaces that can more readily accommodate the diverse personal and institutional needs found within community source projects.

Fluid will encourage user-centered design practices within community source software. To this end, we are creating a designer's toolkit that will offer useful design, accessibility, and usability strategies and documentation. Members of the Fluid team are available to provide usability and accessibility support within the Sakai, uPortal, Kuali Student, and Moodle communities.

The Illinois State Digital Citizen Project is a multi-year project to impact illegal piracy on campus using a multi-faceted approach to confront pervasive attitudes and behaviors in peer-to-peer downloading of movies, music, and media. By addressing ethical and legal issues involved through K-16 education, public relations, and rewards, Illinois State plans to create a nationally recognized program that is cost-effective, based on comparison and research of the products currently available, and is replicable on other college campuses.

The MasterCard SDP Program is designed to help members, merchants and Service Providers - Third Party Processors (TPPs) and Data Storage Entities (DSEs) - proactively protect themselves and the overall payment system against the threat of compromises.

When customers offer their bankcard at the point of sale, over the Internet, on the phone, or through the mail, they want assurance that their account information is safe. That’s why Visa USA has instituted the Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP). Mandated since June 2001, CISP is intended to protect Visa cardholder data–wherever it resides–ensuring that members, merchants, and service providers maintain the highest information security standard.

The Community Patent Review project aims to design and pilot an online system for peer review of patents. By using social software, such as social reputation, collaborative filtering and information visualization tools, we can apply the "wisdom of the crowd" – or, more accurately the wisdom of the experts – to complex social and scientific problems. This could make it easier to protect the inventor's investment while safeguarding the marketplace of ideas.