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Update: UC Irvine to offer certificate program in RFID

Alorie Gilbert writes in the C|Net News RFID Blog:

The University of California at Irvine is developing a certificate program focusing on radio frequency identification, or RFID -- the electronic identification technology that's so en vogue at the moment in computer circles.

Students of the university's extension program may be able to enroll in the courses as soon as the winter quarter of 2006, according to Stefano Stefan, assistant director of business, management, legal and IT programs for the school's continuing education series.

UC Irvine may be the first college in the country - or even the world -- to offer RFID courses that don't require enrollment in an engineering school, Stefan said.

Update: Aaaaand, just about at the same time that I posted this, Peter Rojas posts this juicy tidbit at almost the same time over on Engadget:

Zapped! RFID workshop in NYC tomorrow
Posted Jul 13, 2005, 7:21 PM ET by Peter Rojas

We were a lot more excited about hitting this when we thought that Scott Baio was one of the presenters, but Preemptive Media is hosting a workshop on RFID at Eyebeam here in NYC tomorrow that’ll teach you how to build a keychain RFID detector that’ll beep every time you’re in range of an RFID tag reader.

[Via picturephoning.com]

posted by Fergie @ 7/13/2005 04:28:00 PM