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Comment New Submitter?!? (Score 1) 133

by Durinia on Wednesday April 25, 2012 @12:53AM (#39791429) Attached to: University of Minnesota Launches Review Project For Open Textbooks

Man, your records don't back far enough for me, it seems. ;-)

Submission + - University of Minnesota Launches Review Project for Open Textbooks

Submitted by Durinia on Monday April 23, 2012 @03:55PM

Durinia writes: Minnesota Public Radio is running a story today about the University of Minnesota's Open Textbooks project. The goal of the project is to solicit reviews of college-level open source textbooks and collect those that pass muster onto their website. The project will focus first on high-volume introductory classes such as those for Math and Biology, because as David Ernst, director of the project, states in the interview:

"You know the world doesn't need another $150 Algebra One book. Algebra One hasn't changed for centuries, probably."

Comment Re:Why did IBM do this, and what next for NCSA? (Score 1) 76

by Durinia on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @01:32PM (#37034766) Attached to: NCSA and IBM Part Ways Over Blue Waters

5) ...and Cray is already installing a 20-ish PF machine at ORNL in the next year named "Titan".

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