Information Technology at Indiana University: News In Focus

July 10: IU Flash User Group

Join the IU Flash User Group (IUFUG) to learn about the newest features in the Flex 4 framework, Flex Builder 4, and Flash Catalyst (the newest Adobe product). A pizza lunch will be provided at both the IU Bloomington and IUPUI locations: Friday, July 10, 12-2:30pm; Wells Library 305 (IU Bloomington) and IT 167 (IUPUI) or online via Adobe Connect.
-- Posted 2 July 2009

McRobbie to move quickly on budget

Passage of a two-year state budget by the Indiana General Assembly on June 30 has triggered the tuition- and budget-setting process for all Indiana University campuses. The budget includes capital project authorizations for six projects including $35.7 million for the Cyber Infrastructure Building Phase II at IU Bloomington.
-- Posted 1 July 2009

IU students in international Microsoft competition

Two IU School of Informatics graduate students -- Feixing Tuang and Yujia Zhao -- are bound for Cairo, Egypt, for Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a global challenge focused on finding solutions to real-world issues that this year drew over 300,000 student competitors. Tuang and Zhao won the US qualifying competition and earned a trip to Cairo by designing eXchangeFun, a platform aimed at facilitating the trade and exchange of pre-owned property between residents of a community.
-- Posted 1 July 2009

Digitizing Hoosier crafts

IUPUI University Library, in collaboration with Conner Prairie, has received a Library Service Technology Act digitization grant for more than $11,000 to create the museum's newest online digital collection, making more of the organization's resources accessible online to the public -- especially Hoosier K-12 students.
-- Posted 30 June 2009

Indiana ahead in health IT

Inside INdiana Business reports that Indiana is a national leader in health information technology. Host Gerry Dick spoke with Indiana's BioCrossroads President David Johnson. IIB credits a history of groundbreaking health IT research through the Regenstrief Institute at Indiana University.
-- Posted 30 June 2009

SWITC Call for Participation

The annual IU Statewide IT Conference (SWITC) brings together IU’s extended IT team for professional development. Thought leaders, practitioners, innovators, service providers, students, and researchers across IU are encouraged to submit proposals for posters sessions, demonstrations, presentations, and panels for inclusion in the program. Follow SWITC on Twitter.
-- Posted 30 June 2009

Optometry grant to fuel IT upgrades

A group of scientists working in IU's School of Optometry and the Department of Biology will share more than $2.2 million from the National Institutes of Health to support their ongoing vision research. The grant will support infrastructure improvements in computing and support sustained interaction with sophisticated supercomputing and 3D visualization resources, including collaboration with University Information Technology Services.
-- Posted 29 June 2009

Morrone named Mack Fellow

Anastasia (Stacy) Morrone, associate dean, Learning Technologies, and associate professor of educational psychology in the IU School of Education, has been named a Mack Fellow to support her research on the nature of instructional discourse. Fellows were selected for research projects that were both innovative and well-grounded in the emerging body of knowledge in the scholarship of teaching and learning. The Faculty Colloquium for Excellence in Teaching (FACET) and the P.A. and Marian Mack Endowment established the IU Mack Center for Inquiry on Teaching and Learning.
-- Posted 24 June 2009

IT@IU Podcast: Network Master Plan

IU VP for IT Brad Wheeler speaks about the Network Master Plan for IU for 2008 through 2017. Get the video file (377MB). Subscribe to IT@IU Podcasts. Go to the IT@IU Podcasts page.
-- Posted 22 June 2009

Gresalfi selected for Spencer Fellowship

The National Academy of Education has selected IU School of Education assistant professor Melissa Gresalfi as a 2009-2010 Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow for her work on video game technology to develop mathematical skills in students. Her study, "Designing for Consequential Engagement: The Role of 'Push Back' on Student Thinking," will test her theory that engaging students through making choices with consequences is more effective at teaching math.
-- Posted 22 June 2009

PearlDiver to use IU's Big Red

PearlDiver Technologies Inc., creator of what is believed to be the largest fully HIPAA-compliant, publicly available and searchable database of patient records in the nation, will use IU's Big Red supercomputer for advanced data analysis, thanks to the Indiana Initiative for Economic Development (IIED), a program that fosters technology development and job growth in the state of Indiana.
-- Posted 22 June 2009

Symantec joins CAIMR

Symantec Corp. has joined the Center for Applied Identity Management Research (CAIMR) at the Partner level. IU created the CAIMR as a collaboration among industry, government agencies, and academic institutions to target research into pressing identity management challenges. IU is the academic host of CAIMR. See also CAIMR.
-- Posted 22 June 2009

IU teams receive research grants from the CACR

Five teams of IU researchers are the recipients of more than $230,000 in internal grants that are designed to provide start-up funding for innovative research addressing critical cybersecurity needs. The grants were awarded by the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR), part of the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University.
-- Posted 19 June 2009

IU, Technische Universität Dresden collaborate on life sciences data transfer

Facilitating greater levels of collaboration between scientists and medical researchers in Europe and the US is the goal of an announcement by IT leaders from Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Germany and IU. The formal agreement of cooperation between the two universities will impact joint research in high performance computing and informatics.
-- Posted 19 June 2009

IU Press launches online content

IU Press has launched IU Press Online, a collection of more than 200 of some of the press's best books and 75 themed journals. Offerings will address issues in five subject areas: African Studies, African American and Diaspora Studies; Jewish and Holocaust Studies; Philosophy; and Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.
-- Posted 18 June 2009

IU School of Medicine to study cell phone use of teenage boys

A $4.15M, four-year National Institutes of Health grant will enable researchers at the IU School of Medicine to conduct the first health study of teenage boys using cell phones. The researchers, led by Dr. Dennis Fortenberry, professor of pediatrics in the Division of Adolescent Medicine, will use text messaging to follow 72 males, ages 14-17 years, for three years.
-- Posted 16 June 2009

Green computing project could save energy

A pilot project carried out by IT staff of the IU School of Education produced impressive energy savings from putting desktop computers into "sleep mode" when they were not in use. Now IT managers at other IU offices are looking into making similar efforts, which have the potential for saving hundreds of thousands of dollars for the university.
-- Posted 16 June 2009

IU, Microsoft expand partnership

Indiana University’s new enterprise license agreement with Microsoft Corp. will expand the path-breaking 1998 strategy to provide popular Microsoft products to all students, faculty, and staff on IU campuses by including unlimited licenses and software maintenance to IU departments for server software such as SQL Server, Windows Server, SharePoint Server, and Configuration Manager Server.
-- Posted 16 June 2009

Scientist at Work: Beth Plale

As one of the nation's leading computer scientists, IU's Beth Plale has had her name as investigator or co-investigator on more than $25.8 million in federal and private grant awards to IU. Her titles include Director of the Center for Data and Search Informatics and the Data to Insight Center at IU's Pervasive Technology Institute, associate dean of research in the School of Informatics, and associate professor of computer science and informatics in the IU School of Informatics.
-- Posted 16 June 2009

IU announces new Security Informatics master's degree

With oversubscribed undergraduate courses in computer security since 2006 and national job opportunities in cybersecurity climbing to near the top of all information technology offerings, the nation's first School of Informatics welcomes its first class of students this fall to its new Master of Science in Security Informatics program.
-- Posted 9 June 2009

IU's Innovate Indiana campaign wins national award

IU's Office of Creative Services has been honored with the top national award from the Council for Advancement of Education (CASE) for its Innovate Indiana campaign. The campaign included an Innovate Indiana web site.
-- Posted 8 June 2009