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Peer may refer to:
- Peerage (disambiguation), (a member of) a system of honours or nobility in various countries
- Peer group, (a member of) a group of people of the same age, status, ability, etc.
- Peer-to-peer computer network, (a participant of), in which participants act as both client and server
- Peer, Belgium
- Peer Leadership Program, an organization that promotes team building and easing school transitions
- Public employees for environmental responsibility (PEER), an organization of anonymous public employees promoting environmental responsibility
- A variant of the name Peter in Scandinavic languages.
- Peer Gynt, a play and character by Henrik Ibsen.
- Israeli professional tennis player Shahar Pe'er.
Twitter Usage Patterns: Peer-to-Peer Communications or One-Way Micro-Broadcasting Service?
A recent Harvard Business School study by Bill Heil and Mikolaj Piskorski, New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets, suggests that the top 10 percent of Twitter users produce more than 90 percent of all Tweets...
Peer-to-peer network administrator convicted in W.D. Va. for pirating copyrighted material
The United States Department of Justice issued this press release detailing the conviction on Thursday in Big Stone Gap of a peer-to-peer network administrator for pirating movies and such...
Use of Peer-to-Peer Network Triggers Child Porn Distribution Ehancement
US v. Layton: An informant told cops they say Layton looking at child porn on his computer. Cops went to investigate and questioned Layton, who gave a statement admitting to downloading porn, that there were a few thousand images on his computer, and that he used a peer-to-peer software called WinMX...
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Technology Under Fire By CRTC in Canada
P2P (Peer-to-Peer) is a technology, not an activity.
File sharing is an activity uses P2P technology.
P2P is about sharing content and resources with peers...
Back to School: Peer 2 Peer University and the Future of Education (an interview)
As students around the world return to school, ccLearn blogs about the evolving education landscape, ongoing projects to improve educational resources, education technology, and the future of education...
Colleges Spending Significant Dollars to Address the Issue of Illegal Peer-to Peer Filesharing
According to a new report from the Campus Computing Project, colleges are spending in excess of $150K to curb students from downloading copyrighted music and movies...
















