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Harvard Business Publishing joins IU eTexts initiative
IU now has an agreement with Harvard Business Publishing to deliver eTexts for students on all IU campuses. Harvard Business Publishing is the leading provider of teaching materials for business management education. Through HBP's eText offerings, IU students will gain access to the insights, experiences and expertise of Harvard Business School faculty and authors from Harvard Business Review.
Indiana launches new ultra-high-speed network
Indiana is the first state to launch a high-speed 100-gigabits-per-second (Gbps) network link dedicated to research and education. The new network, named Monon100, is 10 times faster than the current network link. With it, scientists and medical researchers will be able to rapidly share the massive amounts of data created by modern digital instruments such as gene sequencers, powerful microscopes or the Large Hadron Collider. Monon100 runs from Indianapolis to Chicago, linking the Indiana GigaPoP with Internet2, a national research and education network. See also: HPCwire: Inside INdiana Business; PhysOrg; Indiana Public Media.
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Feb. 24: New Media in Authoritarian Central Asia: Fuel for What?
Hans Ibold will present "New Media in Authoritarian Central Asia: Fuel for What?" as part of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Talk Series: Friday, Feb. 24, 1:45-3:15pm; Wells Library 001 (IU Bloomington). Ibold is an assistant professor at the IU School of Journalism. He will discuss emerging research on the role of media in social and political unrest in North Africa and the Middle East.
Feb. 23: How Students Build Upon Out-of-domain Knowledge when Learning to Program
Colleen Lewis will present "How Students Build Upon Out-of-domain Knowledge when Learning to Program" as part of the IU Bloomington School Of Informatics and Computing Colloquium Series: Thursday, Feb. 23, 4-5pm; Ballantine Hall 319 (IU Bloomington). Lewis is a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, studying computer science education. She will discuss research investigating if and how we can make better use of students’ non-programming knowledge and skills in instruction.
Feb. 22: Land Deeds and Registers of Liberia
Verlon Stone, Megan MacDonald, and Kara Alexander, of the Archives of Traditional Music and the Digital Library Program, will present "Land Deeds and Registers of Liberia" as part of the Digital Library Brown Bag series: Wednesday, Feb. 22, noon-1pm; Wells Library E174 (IU Bloomington).
Feb. 20: Secure Virtualization for Dependable Cloud Services
Eric Keller will present "Secure Virtualization for Dependable Cloud Services" as part of the IU Bloomington School Of Informatics and Computing Colloquium Series: Monday, Feb. 20, 4-5pm; Ballantine Hall 005 (IU Bloomington). Keller is a post-doctoral research associate in the Computer and Information Science department at the University of Pennsylvania. He will discuss how virtualization technology can play a great role in improving the end-to-end infrastructure of networked services.
IU Kelley School launches new Institute for Business Analytics
IU's Kelley School of Business on Feb. 14 will celebrate its new Institute for Business Analytics with a presentation by industry leader Barbara Williams of Hill-Rom Enterprises. The Institute for Business Analytics will support academics programs that prepare students to solve business problems using analytics, as well as corporate partnerships that shape the school's understanding of analytics and help companies tap into Kelley's talent.
Telecom research needs free hand to thrive
In a joint editorial in the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette, IU President Michael McRobbie and Smithville Communications President Darby McCarty write that "the state’s approach for telecommunications is working to advance Indiana." They contend that both private telecom companies and the higher education network I-Light together have an important role to play.
Feb. 16: Streaming Algorithms for Finding Order-Dependent Trends in Large Data
Funda Ergun will present "Streaming Algorithms for Finding Order-Dependent Trends in Large Data" as part of the IU Bloomington School Of Informatics and Computing Colloquium Series: Thursday, Feb. 16, 12:30-1:30pm; IMU Georgian Room (IU Bloomington). Ergun is an associate professor of computing science at Simon Fraser University. She will discuss techniques for analyzing order-related trends of a stream, and give examples of a few algorithms.
EDUCAUSE podcast: IU's eText program
In this interview with IU's David Lewis, he discusses the new program that is aimed at lowering the cost for student textbooks. Lewis is assistant vice president for digital scholarly communications and dean of the IUPUI University Library.
In Search of an Exascale Roadmap
In an interview with The Exascale Report, Thomas Sterling discusses a number of exascale topics. Sterling is co-director of the IU Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies whose mission is to develop computing technologies that address challenges from the ever-increasing volume of digital scientific research data. See also IU opens CREST center.
Feb. 15: Discovery of Complex Genomic Rearrangements in Cancer using High-Throughput Sequencing
Cenk Sahinalp will present "Discovery of Complex Genomic Rearrangements in Cancer using High-Throughput Sequencing" as part of the IU Bloomington School Of Informatics and Computing Colloquium Series: Wednesday, Feb. 15, 3-4pm; IMU Dogwood Room (IU Bloomington). Sahinalp is the Canada Research Chair in Computational Genomics at Simon Fraser University. He will discuss nFuse, an algorithmic method for identifying complex genomic rearrangements.
Feb. 15: Image Collections Online
Dot Porter and Mike Durbin of the Digital Library Program will present "Image Collections Online" as part of the Digital Library Brown Bag series: Wednesday, Feb. 15, noon-1pm; Wells Library E174 (IU Bloomington).
Feb. 13: Learning Functions from Correlations
Homin Lee will present "Learning Functions from Correlations" as part of the IU Bloomington School Of Informatics and Computing Colloquium Series: Monday, Feb. 13, 4-5pm; IMU Walnut Room (IU Bloomington). Lee is an NSF Computing Innovation Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He will discuss machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Civic Quotes available for iPad and on the web
Civic Quotes, a new resource from the Center on Congress at Indiana University that uses notable quotations and images to teach about American government and citizenship in an engaging, interactive way, is now available as a free app for the iPad and on the web.
IU Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities welcomes new faculty fellows
Two new faculty fellows, kinesiologist Elizabeth Shea and the English Department's Tarez Graban, have joined Indiana University Bloomington's Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities for the 2011-12 academic year.
IT pioneer Garland Elmore receives President's Medal
IU President Michael A. McRobbie presented the President's Medal for Excellence to Garland C. Elmore, associate vice president of information technology and associate professor of informatics. The presentation was made in Indianapolis at a function to honor Elmore's accomplishments that span three decades of service to the university. The President's Medal is one of the highest awards the university can bestow.
Persistent Systems provides two IU Informatics Ph.D. students with $50,000
Two doctoral candidates at the IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing will share equally in a $100,000 gift from international software company Persistent Systems to support research in cloud computing and bioinformatics. The gift extends Persistent Systems' investment in the Persistent Indiana Research Center Research and Development incubator in Bloomington that was established in collaboration with the School of Informatics and Computing in 2009.
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.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
