The initial launch of iAd rich media ads, featuring advertising from some of the world's leading brands, will begin July 1.

At launch, we’ll roll out in North America and ramp up the number of ads served in the weeks and months ahead. For developers outside of North America, iAd will be rolled out in a few months.

If you haven’t already joined the iAd Network, visit the App Store Resource Center for details on getting started.

The initial launch of iAd rich media ads, featuring advertising from some of the world's leading brands, will begin July 1.

At launch, we’ll roll out in North America and ramp up the number of ads served in the weeks and months ahead. For developers outside of North America, iAd will be rolled out in a few months.

If you haven’t already joined the iAd Network, visit the App Store Resource Center for details on getting started.

If you have dedicated a section of your app for an iAd, it's important to incorporate a banner view delegate that will handle common events, including errors. Having the proper delegate to handle errors maintains the visual experience customers have with ads in your app by preventing a blank banner from being displayed when ads are not available. In addition, if your app displays a blank banner when advertisements are not being displayed, your app will be returned to you by the App Review Team for modification before it can be posted to the App Store.

Read the Working with Banner Views section of the iAd Programming Guide for details on using the bannerView:didFailToReceiveAdWithError: method so that your banner view responds correctly when advertisements are not available. Registered Apple Developers can also watch the WWDC 2010 session video Integrating with iAd, which covers ad banner events in the Application Frameworks section of the presentation.

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If you have dedicated a section of your app for an iAd, it's important to incorporate a banner view delegate that will handle common events, including errors. Having the proper delegate to handle errors maintains the visual experience customers have with ads in your app by preventing a blank banner from being displayed when ads are not available. In addition, if your app displays a blank banner when advertisements are not being displayed, your app will be returned to you by the App Review Team for modification before it can be posted to the App Store.

Read the Working with Banner Views section of the iAd Programming Guide for details on using the bannerView:didFailToReceiveAdWithError: method so that your banner view responds correctly when advertisements are not available. Registered Apple Developers can also watch the WWDC 2010 session video Integrating with iAd, which covers ad banner events in the Application Frameworks section of the presentation.

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The Dissertation House at UMB ends today.  We thank the staff of the Writing Center (Gerry Lardner, Jane Sellman, and Almeta Sly-Thompson) and the Counseling Center (Douglas Chay.) The following photos give you a glimpse of the activities that students participated in over the past few days.

UMB Dissertation House Group June 2010

Dr. Pollack works with Almeta Sly-Thompson of the UMB Writing Center

Lunch in the DH @UMB

Jane Sellman from the UMB Writing Center brings gifts

Dr. Carter coaches a student in a one-on-one session

Dr. Pollack talks with guest speaker, Dr. Calvin Williams (UMB Alum, Former PROMISE Peer Mentor, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology)

Training Examples Q&A is a site created by Joseph Turian where “data geeks ask and answer questions on machine learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, text analysis, information retrieval, search, data mining, statistical modeling, and data visualization!”

It’s a close knock off of the popular stack overflow site and appears to be very well done.

If it catches on in the relevant research communities, it could be a very useful resource. (via LingPipe blog)

The next generation of the world's most advanced mobile operating system is in the hands of iPhone users around the world, and is now available to iPod touch users for free.

Make sure that your applications are compatible with iOS 4. All new applications and updates to existing applications must be built with iPhone SDK 4. In addition, the App Store will no longer support applications that target iOS 2.x.

Review the iOS 4 Readiness Checklist for a wealth of technical resources to help you make the most of the new technologies in iOS 4 and information on submitting your iOS 4 apps to the App Store.