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The University of California, San Diego has joined the Kuali Foundation as an investing partner in the Kuali Rice Project. The Kuali Foundation is a non-profit organization that coordinates the efforts of colleges and universities to sustain and evolve a comprehensive suite of administrative software that meets the needs of all Carnegie Class institutions.
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Fifty of the nation's information technology (IT) leaders have convened on the IUPUI campus this week to draft a national strategy for coordinating the nation's most advanced IT resources to promote innovation, research productivity, and US global competitiveness. The meeting brings together leaders from two key national organizations - the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computing (CASC) and the EDUCAUSE Committee on Campus Cyberinfrastructure. The workshop will result in a report recommending steps universities can implement collaboratively to accelerate research.
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Organizing committees for the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing 2008 eScience Conference are now accepting papers and proposals for tutorials; posters, exhibits, and demos; and workshops and special sessions. The 2008 eScience Conference is being hosted by Indiana University and will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, December 7-12, 2008 at the University Place Conference Center and Hotel on the campus of Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).
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The Kuali Foundation has announced the addition of three new investing partners in the Kuali community. The University of Southern California has become a major new investing partner in the Kuali Student System, and has announced a commitment of $5M to the project. The University of Maryland College Park has become an investing partner in the Kuali Financial Systems. UMCP was already a partner in the Kuali Student System. Finally, the University of California, Davis is the newest investing partner in the Kuali Research Administration Systems. UC Davis has been an investing partner in the Kuali Financial Systems since July 2006.
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Indiana high school students with an interest in computer technology, programming, or networking can work side by side with IU technology professionals to build a robot during a hands-on workshop sponsored by the Community Outreach Program of Pervasive Technology Labs (PTL) at Indiana University. Network security researchers from the Advanced Network Management Lab will lead the second annual PTL Summer Technology Workshop, which will introduce teens to the field of high-speed network research and cybersecurity. Using a kit from the LEGO® Mindstorms® series, workshop participants will build a wireless network-controlled robot. The program will introduce terms and concepts relating to network control and security.
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University Information Technology Services (UITS) at Indiana University announced today that it has dedicated over 350 terabytes (TB) of new storage platforms to support collaborative research projects mounting the Lustre file system across the TeraGrid network and other national high speed networks. IU's Data Capacitor Project Lead Stephen Simms made the announcement during a panel discussion at the Sun Microsystems-sponsored 2008 Lustre User Group being held this week in Sonoma, California.
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Organizing committees for the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing 2008 eScience Conference are now accepting papers and proposals for tutorials; posters, exhibits, and demos; and workshops and special sessions. The 2008 eScience Conference is being hosted by Indiana University and will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, December 7-12, 2008 at the University Place Conference Center and Hotel on the campus of Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).
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The Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and CIO at Indiana University has announced a series of appointments in the leadership team of its Research Technologies division to expand IU's role in advanced information technology and its applications in scholarly discovery and artistic creation. The Research Technologies (RT) division of University Information Technology Services (UITS) at IU supports next generation research through delivery and support of advanced cyberinfrastructure. RT also works to create the cyberinfrastructure of tomorrow through collaboration with IU computer scientists and involvement in national projects such as the TeraGrid and Open Science Grid.
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Brad Wheeler, IU vice president for IT and chair of the Kuali Foundation Board of Directors, has announced that Jennifer Foutty has been named Executive Director of the Kuali Foundation. Foutty will lead the Foundation's activities in recruiting new members, coordinating programmatic initiatives, technology development, sharing best practices, and fostering collaboration on behalf of the Kuali community. Foutty has worked at Indiana University for over 20 years with a variety of responsibilities. IU is a founding partner in the Kuali Foundation that develops administrative software for colleges and universities.
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Indiana University staff member Debby Allmayer, who serves as the human resources officer for the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and CIO, was honored with the 2008 Indiana University Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Building Bridges Community Award during a ceremony held on the Bloomington campus on January 21. The Building Bridges Award honors members of the community who display the leadership and social consciousness embodied by Dr. King. For many years, Allmayer has contributed greatly to the IU and the Bloomington communities with her steadfast commitment to social justice and outreach.
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University Information Technology Services (UITS) Database and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialist Anna Radue was recently elected to the board of directors of Indiana's premier GIS organization. Radue will serve a three-year term on the board of the Indiana Geographic Information Council (IGIC), a nonprofit organization of GIS users, professionals, and educators recognized as the coordinating body for all geographic information in Indiana. At Indiana University, Radue, who is also an IU alumna, provides GIS and remote sensing technical support to all IU campuses throughout the state.
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Indiana University technologists will inform some of the nation's top research scientists about advanced cyberinfrastructure at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) being held next month in Boston. IU is sponsoring a tutorial and workshop at the event titled "The TeraGrid: An essential tool for 21st century science" on Sunday, February 17, from 10:30-noon.
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The Sakai Foundation recently announced the election of Indiana University's Lance D. Speelmon to its board of directors. In this role, Speelmon will participate in foundation governance and in determining priorities for Sakai's development of open-source course management tools and its related higher education software for teaching, learning, research, and collaborative applications.
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Colorado State University has joined the Kuali Foundation as an investing partner in the Kuali Financial and Research Administration Systems. The Kuali Foundation is a non-profit organization responsible for sustaining and evolving a comprehensive suite of administrative software that meets the needs of all Carnegie Class institutions. CSU joins 20 other university investing partners including Indiana University. Kuali Financial is based on IU's financial system.
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Indiana University is making a large variety of life sciences data available to the US research community via the TeraGrid, through the IU Centralized Life Sciences Data (CLSD) service. The data available via CLSD include amongst others dbSNP, Saccaromyces Genome Database, PubMed, and several NCBI BLAST databases including NT, NR, and SP. US researchers who are interested in making use of this service are invited to contact the IU TeraGrid Research Partner site -- the Research Technologies Division of Indiana University.
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Information technology leaders and experts from around the world will learn the vital role Indiana University's advanced cyberinfrastructure plays in scholarly innovation and research during the SC07 supercomputing conference being held next week in Reno, Nevada.
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Information technology writers, editors, and designers work diligently with IT engineers and specialists to create support documents, web pages, and publicity to help users find just the right information. Several of Indiana University's IT communicators recently received national award recognition for communications excellence at the 2007 Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services (SIGUCCS) Communications Awards.
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University Information Technology Services at IU welcomes Barbara Christe as a new faculty fellow in the development of its collaboration and learning environment, Oncourse CL. Christe, a faculty member at IUPUI since 1998, is associate professor and program director of Biomedical Engineering Technology at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology. Christe will create a repository of good practices for using Oncourse CL.
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As the nation's K-12 schools integrate technology into their classrooms, many face tough decisions in allocating these resources because of limited technology budgets. For a growing number of Indiana schools, free open-source software presents one solution.
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Kelley School of Business students, faculty and friends participated in the Eighth Annual Hoosiers Outrun Cancer 5k Run/Walk on Saturday, September 29, at the Indiana University Memorial Stadium. The 125 member "Kelley Runs for Walt" Team, the largest Indiana University team for the second year in a row, was organized to celebrate the life of Walt Blacconiere, former Kelley School of Business professor who passed away earlier this year.
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During today's annual meeting of the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) the University of Southern California (USC) announced that it has joined the Kuali Foundation (http://kuali.org) as an investing partner in the development of community source administrative systems for higher education.
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David E. Jent, associate vice president for networks at Indiana University, has been elected to serve on the Internet2 Advisory Council after its first election.
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IU President-Elect Michael McRobbie and other leading Indiana University faculty were recognized at the annual TechPoint Mira Awards at the Indiana Roof Ballroom Friday evening, May 18. The Mira Awards are Indiana's largest and most recognized technology awards, and are hosted by TechPoint, Indiana's only technology trade group.
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For the ninth time, it's LinuxFest! Students, tinkerers, business-types, too, will find much to take away from LinuxFest, April 11th from 10 am-3 pm at the Atrium of the Informatics and Communications Technology Complex building on the IUPUI campus.
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Now more than ever, colleges and universities must do more than fight the good fight to keep personal information and critical records protected against computer hackers. Cybersecurity personnel from these institutions must stay several steps ahead and work cooperatively to prevent would-be violators from gaining entry. As a contribution to the improvement of cybersecurity in higher education, Indiana University 's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR) will host the Indiana Higher Education Cybersecurity Summit on Thursday, April 5 - Friday, April 6 at the University Place Conference Center on the IUPUI campus, 850 W. Michigan St .
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As useful as high resolution geographic image data is of the state of Indiana , large file sizes created a barrier for their use. The Indiana Geographic Information Council recently recognized three Indiana University staff members for developing a user-friendly mechanism for downloading multiple files from the Indiana Spatial Data Portal (ISDP), a large repository of Indiana geospatial data. David Heald, database analyst and Stephanie Snider, GIS specialist, both of University Information Technology Services, and Nathan Eaton, information services manager of IU's Indiana Geological Survey, received the Indiana GIS Award during the Council's annual conference.
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John Gosney has been appointed as faculty liaison for the Teaching and Learning Information Technology division of University Information Technology Services (UITS). As faculty liaison within UITS' Academic and Faculty Services, Gosney will work with faculty from across Indiana University to explore and advocate the best use of technology to enhance teaching and learning. Gosney comes to his new position having served since 2000 as director of information technology for the IU School of Dentistry.
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The recent snow storm may have kept students from attending classes, but Indiana University's IT support infrastructure helped keep students, staff and faculty connected when they could not make the drive to campus. Use of Oncourse CL, the university's online course management system, dominated much of the university community's online activities. On Tuesday, Feb. 13, Oncourse CL received nearly 10.5 million hits—up more than 4 percent from the previous week. What's more, the community downloaded more than 2,700 software packages via IUware on Feb. 13—more than any other day that week. Some staff and faculty kept their scheduled meetings and teleconferenced via a home phone or cell, or responded to requests via email.
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The Chicago Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) has recognized the work of Indiana University artists and writers in the 34 th Annual Chicago Technical Publications, Art, and Online Communication Competition.
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Two new appointments within University Information Technology Services (UITS) will enable the consolidation of staff from IUB and IUPUI and leverage their expertise to provide more robust support for teaching and learning on the core campuses and across the University. Beverly Teach has been appointed manager of UITS Classroom Technology Services, and David Donaldson has been appointed manager of UITS Media Design and Production. Reporting to Elizabeth Van Gordon, these managers and their groups will have responsibility for both the IUB and IUPUI campuses and will provide services to other campuses.
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Indiana University students, faculty and staff can discover the many information technology (IT) services and tools available to them at the 2007 Making IT Happen!, an annual half-day technology event hosted by University Information Technology Services on all IU campuses. They can also see first hand a showcase of IT-related projects by students.
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