Technology

Bollinger to co-chair national committee on tech in education

University President Lee Bollinger will play a key role in determining how secondary schools can incorporate new technologies as a co-chair of the LEAD Commission.

Centers funded almost entirely by gifts

Vice President for Global Centers Ken Prewitt estimated that, on average, it takes $600,000 to $700,000 per year to operate each center.

Against the machine

Technology has a place in modern society, but maybe not the classroom.

Technology incubators heading to Harlem

With two technology incubators scheduled to open in Harlem and another hoping to join them, Manhattan’s high-tech wave might be making its way uptown.

The uninhibited entrepreneur

Programmers and founders of tech start-up companies have a bright future across the country.

CubMail to transition to Gmail

Following a two-stage trial phase, all undergraduates will use Columbia's new Google-based email system by December.

'Location-based' smart phones: smart?

Technology can either keep you in the Columbia bubble or help you explore beyond it.

On Internet anxiety

How the Internet is just a latent metaphor for real life.

Occupy the real world

Protesters should focus on physical space, not cyberspace.

Analyzing history for today

Emerging technologies offer new challenges in the practice of historiography.