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Pennsylvania group calls on IU’s GlobalNOC to provide services for its new $100M statewide network
The Global Research Network Operations Center (GlobalNOC) at Indiana University will provide premier network coordination and engineering services for the Pennsylvania Research and Education Network (PennREN), a fiber optic cable network that will extend over 1,600 miles through 39 Pennsylvania counties. See also TMCnet.
5,300 IU students benefit from eTexts savings, Internet2 begins pilot
130 class sections encompassing 5,300 IU students are participating in IU's eTexts initiative this spring semester, taking advantage of IU's cost-saving deals with publishers. Those agreements provided students an average savings of $25 per book or online supplement, and total savings of nearly $100,000 when compared to similar offerings. Internet2 is also announcing pilot trials of IU's model. See also: The Chronicle of Higher Education; Inside INdiana Business; SmartPlanet; Ars Technica; NY Times; Campus Technology; Fast CoExist; Indiana Public Media; TechNewsWorld; IDS.
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Call for Participation: XSEDE12 conference
The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) invites participation in its inaugural conference in the form of papers, panels, posters, visualizations, Birds of a Feather sessions, and tutorials. The conference runs from July 16-19, 2012. XSEDE12 -- "Bridging from the campus to the extreme and beyond" -- builds on the success of the recent TeraGrid conferences.
EDUCAUSE Seminar: eTexts: A Perishable Opportunity for Higher Education?
IU VP for IT and CIO Brad Wheeler discusses what role colleges and universities play in the shift from print to digital textbooks. This EDUCAUSE Live! program addresses the strategic, business, and policy implications for institutions in light of a changing world of consumer electronics and new models for digital educational resources such as eTexts. The seminar recording and files are available at the link.
IT: A View from Both Sides of the President’s Desk
IU President Michael McRobbie writes about IT in the current issue of EDUCAUSE Review from his unique perspective as former vice president for IT and CIO and his current role as president. He answers the questions: "What do you now think about technology? From your point of view as a president, what are the major issues in information technology today? What has changed in your thinking?" McRobbie is also vice chair and chair-elect of the Board of Trustees for Internet2.
Jan. 31: Algorithms for reconstruction of genomes using high-throughput sequencing
Paul Medvedev will present "Algorithms for reconstruction of genomes using high-throughput sequencing" as part of the IU Bloomington School Of Informatics and Computing Colloquium Series: Tuesday, Jan. 31, 3-4pm; IMU Maple Room (IU Bloomington). Medvedev is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Diego. He will discuss algorithms for assembling genomes, discovering structural variants, and correcting errors in the reads.
Jan. 30: Practical Abstractions for Dynamic and Parallel Software
Umut A. Acar will present "Practical Abstractions for Dynamic and Parallel Software" as part of the IU Bloomington School Of Informatics and Computing Colloquium Series: Monday, Jan. 30, 4-5pm; IMU Maple Room (IU Bloomington). Acar leads the programming languages and systems group at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. He will discuss a broad range benchmarks involving lists, arrays, matrices, and trees, as well as sophisticated applications in geometry, machine-learning, and large-scale cloud computing.
'Incite Innovation' is the theme for IU Kelley Business Conference on March 2
Ray Kurzweil, a futurist coined a "restless genius" by The Wall Street Journal, and John Kao, an authority on corporate innovation dubbed "Mr. Creativity" by The Economist, will keynote the 66th annual Indiana University Kelley Business Conference on March 2.
Jan. 27: Extracting Timelines from Unstructured Text
Steven Bethard will present "Extracting Timelines from Unstructured Text" as part of the IU Bloomington School Of Informatics and Computing Colloquium Series: Friday, Jan. 27, 3-4pm; Lindley Hall 102 (IU Bloomington). Bethard is a research associate at the Center for Language and Education Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He will discuss a common architecture for timeline extraction: a series of supervised machine learning components trained on example texts whose timelines have been annotated manually by humans.
Indiana's top young women in computing to be recognized Jan. 18 in Indianapolis
The National Center for Women and Information Technology, an Indiana University-led consortium of the state's universities, and a group of local corporate sponsors called Indiana STARS have announced the winners of the second annual Indiana Aspirations in Computing Award competition.
Cate urges vigilance after Zappos cyberattack
Sunday's announcement by Zappos that customer accounts had been compromised by an unknown attacker poses serious risks for consumers, according to Maurer School of Law Distinguished Professor Fred H. Cate. Cate also serves as director of the IU Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, part of the IU Pervasive Technology Institute.
Pilot program provides no-cost IT training to IU faculty and staff
UITS IT Training has announced a special pilot program for spring semester 2012 that provides IU faculty and staff with information technology workshops at no cost. The instructor-led sessions start on January 18 and cover a range of topics, including core Adobe and Microsoft applications, video, multimedia, web development, and programming.
IU Press at forefront of university press e-initiatives
IU Press will work with CoreSource for digital asset management and distribution. Content will be available in multiple electronic formats, making it more convenient for customers to purchase books for their preferred e-reader, such as the Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo or iPad. IU Press will also partner with IU's eTexts to deliver selected e-textbooks to students on all IU campuses.
$33M Lilly Endowment grant will transform IU Kelley School of Business' undergraduate program
The new and renovated facilities will enable program innovations that will elevate the role the Kelley School plays in the economic vitality of the state and will further advance its presence among the world's elite business schools. A focus of the building project will be to create facilities that will enable a technology-mediated experience, allowing Kelley students to interact with companies from across the state and around the world on actual business projects.
IPFW General Studies online program makes national rankings
In the newest 2012 national rankings of online undergraduate programs from U.S. News and World Report, Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) ranks 10th in faculty credentials and training, 19th in teaching practices and assessment, and 97th in student services and technology.
IU School of Education among the top online education programs in US News rankings
The IU School of Education in Bloomington is highly ranked in the first US News & World Report ranking of top online graduate education degree programs unveiled today, Jan. 10, on the publication's web site. Over 160 institutions offering online graduate degree programs in education participated, and the IU School of Education ranked in the upper tier in each of the four categories.
HPCwire: Brocade helped power IU's SC11 record-setting data transfer demo
An IU team in November demonstrated data transfer over an experimental 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) network—taking advantage of a link ten times faster than most in use today. This experimental network was created to support testing by several universities during the SCinet Research Sandbox (SRS), part of the SC11 conference in Seattle, Washington. Brocade contributed MLXe Ethernet routers equipped with 100GbE blades and a 15.36Tbps fabric. See also: IU showcases innovative approach to networking at SC11 SCinet Research Sandbox.
IUPUC receives $400K for simulation and engineering lab
A $250K donation by the Arvin Gift Fund, matched by a substantial $150K gift from the Community Education Coalition, will enable Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus (IUPUC) to build a high-tech new simulation and engineering lab for its students. The combined gift will be used to establish the Arvin Computational Analysis Simulation & Engineering Lab.
Two IU School of Education scholars ranked among top contributors
A new ranking places two IU School of Education faculty in a listing of the top contributors to public debate about education. Curt Bonk, professor of instructional systems technology, educational psychology and cognitive science and adjunct instructor for the School of Informatics, authored a comprehensive book on how web technology is changing worldwide education, "The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education."
IU faculty receive Digging Into Data Challenge grants
The Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities has announced that four IU School of Library and Information Science faculty were among the recipients of its Digging Into Data Challenge grants. Cassidy Sugimoto, Staša Milojevic, Ying Ding, and Katy Börner are part of two international teams that won two of the 14 grants.
Hall Center welcomes health law expert Nicolas Terry
The IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law at IUPUI has announced the appointment of Nicolas Terry, leading authority in the intersection of medicine, law and information technology, as the Hall Render Professor of Law and co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health.
Online store showcases licensed IU products in one location
IU's Office of Licensing and Trademarks has introduced indianauniversitystore.com, the official IU online store, which showcases the licensed products of IU in one location. The store features an assortment of goods, including apparel, headwear, gifts, novelties, home décor and collectibles.
IU awarded $2.3M for computer network innovation
IU has again been chosen by the National Science Foundation's GENI project to lead applied research for faster and cheaper computer networks. Four new grants totaling $2.3 million further advance the state's national stature in operating and researching high-speed computer networks. The NSF's Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) project awarded the grants in support of the university's efforts to build, test, and support innovative computer networks. See also: Inside INdiana Business; ZDNet; IDS.
Shared flavor compounds show up on US menus, rare in Asian cuisines
In a search to uncover the patterns and principles people use in choosing ingredient combinations beyond individual taste and recipes, a team that included IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing Assistant Professor Yong-Yeol Ahn looked at the key ingredients of 56,498 online recipes and then analyzed those ingredients for shared flavor compounds.
IUconnectED provides one-stop resource for IU School of Education online learning
The IU School of Education has launched IUconnectED, a new Web portal that conveniently coordinates access to the school's online learning programs. Through IUconnectED, students can take a variety of courses to earn credentials ranging from professional certificates to master's degrees and online doctorates.
IU Northwest offers new bachelor’s degree in Health Information Administration
To meet the growing demand for health-information and medical-records professionals, IU Northwest and the College of Health and Human Services are offering a new Bachelor of Science in Health Information Administration degree program, beginning in the spring 2012 semester.
SOIC Corporate Partners Program continues growth in scholarship offers
Three years ago the IU School of Informatics and Computing (SOIC) launched a Corporate Partners Program designed to give corporations unique access to students and faculty at the school. Today that program has grown to include nine local, national and international corporations that, through their participation in the program, have been able to offer over $50,000 in scholarship monies to about 50 students at the school this year.
IU physicists in the thick of results at Large Hadron Collider
IU physicists who've spent years working with scientists around the world looking for the Higgs boson today learned the experiment they are tied most closely to -- the ATLAS detector -- and a second independent experiment both have seen similar results providing the best proof yet that this particle does exist. The team partners with the University of Chicago in managing ATLAS' Midwest Tier2 computing center, which has hardware in Bloomington, at IUPUI, and in Chicago. This center is one of only five such ATLAS computing centers in the US, and it makes heavy use of the Open Science Grid, to which IU has made major contributions.
