http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Abilene Posts tagged with 'Abilene' at MetaFilter. Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:31:42 -0800 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:31:42 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/69633/iPhones%2Dat%2DACU <a href="http://www.acu.edu">Abilene Christian University</a> in Abilene, Texas becomes <a href="http://www.acu.edu/news/2008/080225_iphone.html">the first university in the US to give out iPhones to incoming freshmen.</a> Concept videos describing how they will be used <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp8fHgp0xhU&feature=related">here (social)</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLCTpX3tJEQ&feature=related">here (academic)</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwBHvDqF2vU">here (overview)</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.69633 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:31:42 -0800 Abilene ACU Christian freshman iPhone University Pater Aletheias http://www.metafilter.com/16435/ <a href="http://chronicle.com/free/2002/04/2002041701t.htm">New York's Natural History Museum Pioneers Use of Internet2</a> "Sebastien Lepine, a post-doctoral fellow at the museum, had figured that it would take him a year, using the commercial Internet, to finish downloading two 360-degree digital sky surveys for his study of fast-moving stars. But that was before the museum connected to Abilene." This indication of how the "commmercial Internet" has become so clogged with crap annoys me intensely. Particularly when the article points out just a few of the research projects that need high bandwidth. tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.16435 Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:32:31 -0800 abilene bandwith internet internet2 naturalhistory naturalhistorymuseum newyork research elgoose