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• Former Sen. John Edwards, the Democrats' nominee for vice president in 2004, will head a new anti-poverty center at the University of North Carolina.(Brief Article)

  - 2005-02-16

  * Former Sen. John Edwards, the Democrats' nominee for vice president in 2004, will head a new anti-poverty center at the University of North Carolina. In a possible sign of interest in the 2008 presidential race, Edwards also visited New Hampshire recently to stress the importance...

  Tags: Democrat, HARDWARE, NETWORKING, nominee, poverty, Semiconductors, Sen., University of North Carolina

• Appeals court says university can hold discussions of Quran - Nation - University of North Carolina decision - Brief Article

  - 2002-08-30

  A federal appellate court rejected a request to halt small-group discussions about the Quran at the University of North Carolina in a decision that came down Aug. 19, hours before the talks were scheduled to be held. After a lower court refused to grant a temporary restraining order requested...

  Tags: NETWORKING, University of North Carolina

• Wide-Range 6D Optical Tracker from 3rdTech Opens New Possibilities for Augmented Reality, Training, VR

  - 2000-08-02

  Business Editors, High Tech Writers CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 2, 2000 3rdTech Inc., developing products and businesses from university research, today announced the HiBall-3000 Wide Area Tracker, a new optical tracker that achieves unmatched levels of accuracy, performance and scalability. Based on technology first developed by the...

  Tags: Engineering, entrepreneurial, Entrepreneurship, Ethernet, NETWORKING, performance, SECURITY, sensor, training, University of North Carolina

• UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL DISTRIBUTES DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAMMING TO THOUSANDS.

  - 1999-09-01

  The University of North Carolina UNC at Chapel Hill is a leading proponent of the use of video for educational purposes. High quality video images for distance learning, educational programming, telemedicine and teleconferencing are transported across the university's network infrastructure. The university can also transmit educational programming to the local...

  Tags: Artel Video Systems Inc., Johnson, MARKETING, network, NETWORKING, UNC, University of North Carolina, video

• A cell leader's view of the NREN revolution. (Institute for Academic Technology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C. in pilot program with IBM)(National Research and Educational Network)(IBM Higher Education supplement)

  - 1992-03-01

  IBM enters into a five-year pilot project that will turn the University of North Carolina's Institute for Academic Technology into a pioneer demonstrator of the effectiveness of networked multimedia. The support of IBM, as well as such hardware and software vendors as Novell Inc and Intel Corp, will boost the...

  Tags: high-performance, IBM Corp., leader, multimedia, network, NETWORKING, UNC, University of North Carolina

• Student-friendly networking.(at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

  - 1990-04-01

  The Office of Data and Video Communications at the University of North Carolina UNC at Chapel Hill was created to oversee a campus-wide networking project that crossed departmental boundaries. The group supports a network of two IBM mainframes, some 15 VAXes, 400 UNix workstations, and 26 microcomputer fileservers, each supporting...

  Tags: network, NETWORKING, software, University of North Carolina