Information Technology at Indiana University: News In Focus

Feb. 15: Informatics Colloquium Series

Anand Panangadan, research specialist at the Saban Research Institute, will present "Resource Management using Adaptive Sensing for a Body Sensor Network" as part of the IU School of Informatics and Computing Colloquium Series: Monday, Feb. 15, 3-4pm; IMU Dogwood Room (IU Bloomington). In this talk, Anand describes a body sensor network developed at the Saban Research Institute of the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
-- Posted 9 February 2010

$1M 3M gift to create new Kelley lab

IU's Kelley School of Business has received $1M from 3M Corp. and its foundation for a new professional sales and communications lab for students. The gift will be used to create a lab equipped with state-of-the-art technology that will enable students to receive useful feedback on their efforts to improve presentation, listening, and adaptive selling skills.
-- Posted 9 February 2010

New Frontiers Program adds presenters focused on video gaming

The IUPUI New Frontiers Program is adding three presentations for spring semester focused on the video gaming industry: Fridays in ICTC IT252, 2-3pm, on February 19, February 26, and March 5. The New Frontiers in Arts and Humanities Program is funded by the Lilly Endowment and encourages IU faculty in the arts and humanities to expand scholarly and creative work into innovative "new frontiers."
-- Posted 8 February 2010

Bruce Schneier to keynote sixth annual Cybersecurity Summit

The 2010 Higher Education Cybersecurity Summit, April 1, offers a forum on current issues in security. Hosted by the IU Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR), the summit is aimed at security, law, and information assurance professionals within the higher education, government, and non-profit sectors. Renowned security guru Bruce Schneier will headline with the address "Security, Privacy, and the Generation Gap."
-- Posted 5 February 2010

IURTC contracts with business accelerator to push research commercialization

IU's most innovative researchers will gain access to another source of venture capital and to commercialization teams through a new agreement between IU's Research & Technology Corp. (IURTC) and the venture capital firm The University Funds. The memorandum of understanding between IU and The University Funds was another step toward increasing opportunities for successfully moving intellectual property created by IU researchers into the marketplace and establishing startup companies in Bloomington and other IU campuses.
-- Posted 4 February 2010

2010 New Frontiers grants awarded to IU faculty

Nearly three dozen faculty from various IU campuses have received New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities grants for 2010. The awards, which support faculty as they expand their work into new disciplinary or interdisciplinary areas, will provide funding for projects such as "Past is Present, Digitally Altered Everyday Ware," the creation and exhibition of digitally reworked ceramic ware designed to make viewers question things in their environment.
-- Posted 4 February 2010

Spring Networks and Complex Systems Talk Series

Mathew Palakal and Jake Chen from the IU School of Informatics at IUPUI will kick off the 2010 Networks and Complex Systems Talk Series by presenting "Bibliomics, Textmining, and Biomarker Identification": Monday, Feb. 8, 6-7pm; Wells Library 001 (IU Bloomington). Palakal and Chen will present BioMAP, a tool that can carry out large-scale biomedical literature data-mining.
-- Posted 3 February 2010

IDS: Software agreement helps alumnus win Adobe award

IU alumnus David Harper was a winner in the ninth annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards, presented in October at the Icograda World Design Congress 2009 in Beijing. Harper's project, "Veins of Life," won in the Motion Graphics category and was one of only 12 winners selected by a panel of industry leaders from among 3,300 submissions by students from 37 countries. Harper credits IU's license agreement with Adobe for giving him the tools he needed. See also the IU news release.
-- Posted 2 February 2010

Tony Hey inaugural speaker in DCS Seminar Series

Tony Hey, VP of the External Research Division of Microsoft Research, was the inaugural speaker at the IU Digital Science Center Seminar Series. Hey spoke on "Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery; the Fourth Paradigm" and discussed the far-reaching changes that this new paradigm will have on scientific discovery. Hey is responsible for the worldwide external research strategy across Microsoft Corporation. His presentation is available via archived video.
-- Posted 2 February 2010

Jon-Paul Herron appointed director of Network Engineering

IU VP for IT and CIO Brad Wheeler has appointed Jon-Paul Herron director of IU Global Research Network Operations Center (GRNOC) Engineering, where he will oversee IU's prestigious national services in research and education networking operations and planning. Herron has been at Indiana University for nearly 10 years.
-- Posted 1 February 2010

Feb. 2: Tony Hey to speak at inaugural DCS Seminar Series

Tony Hey, VP of the External Research Division of Microsoft Research, will speak at the inaugural IU Digital Science Center Seminar Series: Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2-3pm; IU Innovation Center (2719 E. 10th Street, IU Bloomington). Hey will speak on "Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery; the Fourth Paradigm." He will discuss the far-reaching changes that this new paradigm will have on scientific discovery. Hey is responsible for the worldwide external research strategy across Microsoft Corporation.
-- Posted 1 February 2010

H-T: IU libraries named nation’s best by library group (subscription)

The Bloomington Herald-Times highlights technology in this story about the IU Bloomington libraries' award as the nation’s top university library system for 2010 by the American Library Association. The story covers IU's recent $2.38 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop library software. See also IU Bloomington libraries named top in the country.
-- Posted 29 January 2010

IUPUI Informatics co-sponsoring symposium in India

A joint effort between the IU School of Informatics at IUPUI and the National Institute of Technology Calicut in India aims to increase international research opportunities among life and computer science scholars. Both institutions have co-founded the first International Symposium on Biocomputing to take place February 15-17 in Calicut, India.
-- Posted 28 January 2010

Feb. 26: Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conferences Series

Organizers of the next installment of the Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conferences Series on February 26 have come up with an alternative to the typical panel discussion by preparing a video for the conference, "Effective Collaboration: A Study in Three Acts." The conference will take place at the offices of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, 11 S. Meridian St. in Indianapolis and is part of the IU Kelley School of Business Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conferences Series.
-- Posted 28 January 2010

Spring Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Talk Series

The Spring 2010 Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Talk Series will begin Friday, February 5, 1:30pm, Wells Library 011, with a talk from IU’s Department of Communication and Culture Assistant Professor Mary Gray. Talks are usually held on Friday afternoons. Gray will discuss how lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth and their allies make use of social media and local resources to combat marginalization.
-- Posted 28 January 2010

Spring Digital Library Brown Bag Series

The IU Digital Library Program released their Spring 2010 Brown Bag Series schedule. Sessions will be held most Wednesdays in Wells Library, Room E174 (the Media Showing Room), noon-1pm. This semester's series will also be available remotely. The series kicks off Jan. 27 (today) with Stacy Kowalczyk presenting "The new Digital Library of the Commons".
-- Posted 27 January 2010

IUPUI launches master plan web site

IUPUI's Office of Communications and Marketing recently launched a new web site to keep people informed of campus construction projects, traffic alerts, parking alerts and other related situations. The site is located at masterplan.iupui.edu. Construction-related updates, and traffic alerts, are published to the Master Plan site, to Twitter (www.twitter.com/IUPUItraffic) and RSS feeds.
-- Posted 27 January 2010

Call for Participation: NSF Campus Bridging Technologies Workshop

IU is hosting a workshop focusing on networking and data-centric issues as they apply to the NSF-sponsored Campus Bridging Taskforce charter, April 7-8 at IUPUI. IU is inviting position papers for the workshop from the software and scientific community. The deadline to submit position papers is March 1.
-- Posted 26 January 2010

CIC signs ebook agreement

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) -- of which IU is a member -- is acquiring the ScienceDirect eBooks collections that will give IU faculty and students electronic access to more than 1,300 titles covering science, technical and medical subject areas. The CIC is a consortium of the Big Ten universities plus the University of Chicago.
-- Posted 26 January 2010

New life science teaching labs open in Jordan Hall

Students returning from winter break this month found three new teaching laboratories in IU Bloomington's Jordan Hall, built expressly for the purpose of providing practical laboratory experiences in the life sciences. Each lab possesses a full battery of audio and visual technology for demonstrations, as well as full wireless access to the IU network.
-- Posted 25 January 2010

IU alumnus a winner in international Adobe Design Achievement Awards

Scientist at Work: Alessandro Vespignani

Alessandro Vespignani arrived at IU Bloomington little more than five years ago as part of a gamble by now retired IU School of Informatics Dean Mike Dunn to develop what Dunn hoped would be the foundation for a world-class research group for the study of complex systems and networks. Vespignani is a professor of informatics and director of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research at IU's Pervasive Technology Institute.
-- Posted 20 January 2010

IT@IU Podcast: Who is using web content management at IU?

After several months using IU's enterprise web content management system, Cascade Server, four IU webmasters discuss publishing new sites, their experiences, and impressions of the system. Get the video file (427MB). Subscribe to IT@IU Podcasts.
-- Posted 19 January 2010

IU writers and designers among the best in the business

IU staff members at IU Bloomington and IUPUI consistently achieve a level of excellence in communication that meets and exceeds the highest standards according to a leading standard bearer, the Society for Technical Communication (STC). IU won top awards again this year in the STC's annual Chicago Chapter competition.
-- Posted 19 January 2010

2010 Indiana GIS Conference

IU is hosting the 2010 Indiana GIS Conference taking place February 23-24 at the Bloomington Monroe County Convention Center. The conference will offer workshops at the Convention Center and workshops on campus hosted by University Information Technology Services. The conference offers information on the latest GIS technology and will include a tour of IU's new Data Center.
-- Posted 19 January 2010

Call for Entries: Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award

IU faculty who have used Oncourse to create a dynamic learning environment that has enriched their students' experiences are encouraged to apply for the 2010 Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award that publicly honors successful pedagogical innovation and best practices in teaching and learning in a Sakai environment. Oncourse is IU's local implementation of Sakai.
-- Posted 15 January 2010

Submit papers, abstracts for TeraGrid'10

Submission is now open for papers and abstracts for the Science, Technology, Gateways, and Education tracks, and abstracts only for all other parts of the TeraGrid'10 conference to be held Aug. 2-5 in Pittsburgh. The deadline for all submissions is May 10. TeraGrid'10 will offer research and technical presentations for scientists, engineers, and others throughout academia ready to leverage their research using a wide range of computational resources tailored to your specific needs. IU is a TeraGrid Resource Provider site.
-- Posted 15 January 2010

IUPUI Informatics spring colloquia

The IU School of Informatics at IUPUI is hosting a colloquia for spring 2010 that provides IUPUI students, faculty and staff the opportunity to hear from leading researchers in the dynamic fields of informatics, media arts, and the health and life sciences. Presentations begin January 22 with speaker Eli Blevis, Ph.D., and his lecture, “Collaborative competitive challenge-based studio learning (C3SL) in the context of HCI and HCC.”
-- Posted 15 January 2010

Upcoming IT career opportunities for students

On Monday, Feb. 15, 3-5pm, the IU Alumni Association is sponsoring Make a Difference with IT, an opportunity for students to connect with alumni and explore future careers in IT. The following day, Feb. 16, 11am-3pm, students interested in IT careers are invited to attend the Spring 2010 IT Career Fair. Both events take place in Alumni Hall at the IMU (IU Bloomington).
-- Posted 15 January 2010

'Rupture and Flow' series to launch

The Multidisciplinary Ventures and Seminars Fund has awarded funding in support of the 2010-2011 seminar series "Rupture and Flow: The Circulation of Technoscientific Facts and Objects." The seminar is anchored in the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies, and includes a longstanding interest in traveling facts and technology.
-- Posted 14 January 2010

IPFW Center for Wireless Technology receives funding

Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) has received $3M from Community Partnerships Inc. that will fund a position of associate director/professor in the Center for Wireless Technology, allowing it to expand its class offerings and launch a graduate certificate in wireless communication. The Center's goal is to establish a national-level wireless communication research and trade conference in Fort Wayne.
-- Posted 13 January 2010

Call for entries: VisionFest 2010

VisionFest, a juried student animation festival, is accepting entries for competition and screening. High school, undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit their work in the categories of animation and games/interactive arts. All entries must be postmarked by July 28, 2010. This year’s festival will take place October 22-24 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Details on the festival and how to submit are available at www.visionfest.org.
-- Posted 13 January 2010

IU Press Online adds comprehensive encyclopedias

IU Press announced that it is adding four comprehensive encyclopedias to IU Press Online, enhancing an online library that includes collections in African studies, African American and African diaspora studies, Jewish and Holocaust studies, music, philosophy, religion, and Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies.
-- Posted 12 January 2010

Playing games for real recovery

Remotely monitored in-home virtual reality videogames improved hand function and forearm bone health in teens with hemiplegic cerebral palsy, helping them perform activities of daily living such as eating, dressing, cooking, and other tasks for which two hands are needed.
-- Posted 12 January 2010

IU awarded $2.38M to develop library software

A $2.38 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Indiana University will be used to develop software created specifically for the management of print and electronic collections for academic and research libraries around the world. IU will lead the Kuali OLE (Open Library Environment) project, a partnership of research libraries dedicated to managing increasingly digital resources and collections. Together, these libraries will develop "community source" software that will be made available to libraries worldwide.
-- Posted 11 January 2010