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Technology They can detect only what they have been programmed to detect beforehand. If anything new comes up, which happens every week or month or so, they have difficulty. Sometimes they catch one, but that's pure accident," says Zheng. "Our device doesn't have a data- base—we don't tell it specific data to block. Instead, we provide it with legitimate traffic to go through. "Firewalls are basically static. NEWSBYTES ■ BIG STEP FOR BIOTECHOLOGY San Diego State University (SDSU) has partnered with biotechnology companies Invitrogen Corporation, Pfizer, and CardioDynam- ics to establish the first degree program in the nation that combines an MBA with a offers the program in conjunction with the University of California in San Diego. SDSU started a pilot program for two students last Sep- tember and plans to expand the pro- gram this year. Participating biotech- nology companies hope that the Ph.D.-MBA program will produce "home-grown" leaders for the industry—who know biotechnology and have the specialized training in the research, product development, promotion, and financing involved in getting new drugs and biodevices successfully to the market. biotechnology focus and a Ph.D. in molecu- lar and cell biology. SDSU ■ NEW GROUP FOR IT A new Technology Leaders Affinity Group has formed through AACSB International. The group was con- 52 BizEd MAY/JUNE 2004 ceived by Don Krueger, the technol- ogy program director at the Labovitz School of Business and Economics at the University ofMinnesota in Duluth, andMaggie Jesse, Director of the Stead Technology Services Group at the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Charter members include IT direc- tors from nearly 120 business schools. In addition to creating a forum to dis- cuss the role of IT on busi- ness school campuses, the group also hopes to extend its membership to schools outside the U.S. For more information, contact Don Krueger at 218-726-7319 or dkrueger@d.umn.edu. ■ NETPLUS! AT UMICH The School of Management at University of Michigan, Flint, launched its flagship online MBA program, Net- Plus!, this spring. The two- year program comprises eight three-month terms, each beginning with one day in the classroom followed by six weeks of work and col- laboration online. the beta version of the software this spring and are working to prepare the product for sale by mid-year through their company Calyptix Security (www.calyptix.com), a win- ner of UNC Charlotte's Five Ven- tures Business Competition last year. a number of rules to apply to data traffic." Using those rules, Access Enforcer "learns" to distinguish the good traffic from the bad. Zheng and Teo plan to release E-Cases for Sustainable Development tainable development real and rele- vant to all employees involved in corporate decision making, says Björn Stigson, president of WBCSD. "Chronos provides companies with a unique opportunity to make sustain- able development relevant to indi- vidual employees and close the gap between policy and practice." With case studies accessible through The sustainable energy biz just got a new online training boost. This spring, Chronos, a new e-learning tutorial of business cases for sustainable development, was launched by the World Business Council for Sustain- able Development (WBCSD) and the University of Cambridge Pro- gramme for Industry (CPI). Chronos is designed to make sus- D ATA B I T According to the UN Confer- ence on Trade Develop- ment's annual "E-Commerce and Development Report," 592 million people world- wide had Internet access in 2002, a 20 percent increase from 2001. In developed countries, 401.7 million people can access the 'Net, up 12 percent from 2001. In developing countries, 189.9 million people have access, a 40 percent increase. Still, just under 10 percent of the world's total population currently has Internet access. its Web site at www.sdchronos.org, Chronos already is finding a home in b-school courses that emphasize sus- tainable development, including a new course at the Jones Graduate School ofManagement at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Students enrolled in "Sustainable Develop- ment in the Energy Business," a one-day course conducted as part of the Jones School's Certificate ofManagement in Energy program, used the tutorial to learn how sustainable devel- opment can improve the financial, social, and environmental performance of their corporations.■ z