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Facebook Friends Are Virtual, Finds Oxford University Study

People who claim to have thousands of Facebook friends are really kidding themselves Photo: BLOOMBERG NEWS

Facebook Fellowship Program

Every day Facebook confronts the most complex technical problems and we believe that close relationships with the academy will enable us to address many of these problems at a fundamental level and solve them. As part of our ongoing commitment to academic relations, we are pleased to announce the creation of the Facebook Fellowship program to support graduate students in the 2010-2011 school year. We are interested in a wide range of academic topics, including the following topical areas: Internet Economics:  auction theory and algorithmic game theory relevant to online advertising auctions. Cloud Computing:  storage, databases, and optimization for computing in a massively distributed environment. Social Computing:  models, algorithms and systems around social networks, social media, social search and collaborative environments. Data Mining and Machine Learning:  learning algorithms, feature generation, and evaluation methods to produce effective online and of...

How Campus Communication Technology Works

Today's generation of college students is among the first to take technological innovations such as e-mail, text-messaging and wireless Internet capability for granted. Entering freshmen in 2007 anticipate that they'll be connected in the dorms, in the classroom and across campus. © Yellow Dog Productions/Photodisc/ Getty Images Tech-savvy students expect WiFi connections. As university administrators try to keep pace with the expectations of these students who've grown up using the Internet, they're transforming the college campus into a wireless environment that integrates the latest communication technologies into the classroom and into student life. Some of the changes simply enhance the student lifestyle; others strike at the very root of timeworn notions of how learning should take place in higher-education institutions. A 2007 University of Virginia survey found that 67 percent of incoming freshman owned an iPod. Among students who came to school with a co...