The Crisis in Higher Education

Online versions of college courses are attracting hundreds of thousands of students, millions of dollars in funding, and accolades from university administrators. Is this a fad, or is higher education about to get the overhaul it needs?

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The Library of Utopia

Google’s ambitious book-scanning program is foundering in the courts. Now a Harvard-led group is launching its own sweeping effort to put our literary heritage online. Will the Ivy League succeed where Silicon Valley failed?

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TR10: Real-Time Search

Google’s Amit Singhal, one of this year’s TR10 innovators, is leading the search giant’s effort to master Real-Time Search. We asked him why Real-Time Search was important, and how Google sorted the wheat from the chaff.