My daily selection of the most interesting news on the internets:
- Lost in the Cloud – NYTimes.com – Many people consider the move towards cloud computing to be as sensible and inevitable as the move from answering machines to voicemail. With your stuff in the cloud, it’s not a catastrophe to lose your laptop, any more than losing your glasses would permanently destroy your vision. In addition, as more and more of our information is gathered from and shared with others — through Facebook, MySpace or Twitter — having it all online can make a lot of sense. The cloud, however, comes with real dangers.
- 15 Foreign Universities Drawn to Incheon Free Zone – Currently, 15 foreign universities are seeking to open branches on the Songdo Global University Campus. All but one, the University of Pavia in Italy, are American. Among them, Duke University, Columbia University, Boston University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of California, San Diego. Among the seven universities that have already signed MOU's for undergraduate programs, North Carolina State University and State University of New York at Stony Brook have made the fastest progress.
- California’s Crisis Hits Its Prized Universities – California's crisis continues while Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders inch slowly toward agreement on the deep cuts necessary to close California's massive $26 billion budget shortfall. Now, even as the state continues to pay its bills with IOUs, the University of California, the nation's leading public university, is being forced to cut its budget by $813 million — or 20%. It is highly unlikely that these cuts will be reduced by a budget agreement in Sacramento.
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