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IT@IU Podcast: iPhone 3G and IU
Marc Kerr demonstrates what's new with the iPhone and how it will impact IU. Get the video file (113MB). Subscribe to IT@IU Podcasts.
— Posted 25 July 2008
ChaCha Receives Frost & Sullivan Award
Inside INdiana Business reports that ChaCha is the winner of the 2008 Frost & Sullivan North American Product Innovation Award. ChaCha was selected from 25 companies in the mobile search and advertising arenas. ChaCha was founded by IU alumnus and Indiana technology entrepreneur Scott Jones. IU and ChaCha have a first-of-its-kind academic search service partnership.
— Posted 24 July 2008
Informatics student awarded fellowship through NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program
Tonya Thompson-Stroman, a Ph.D. student in the Indiana University School of Informatics human-computer interaction design program, has been awarded a NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program fellowship for her proposal "Technology Aided Environmental Stress Reduction for Long Duration Space Missions."
— Posted 24 July 2008
Call for visualization and data analysis papers
Co-chaired by IU SLIS professor Katy Börner, the Visualization and Data Analysis 2009 Conference (January 18-22, 2009, at the San Jose Convention Center, California) "covers all aspects of visualization and issues affecting successful visualizations." Papers must be submitted for review by August 1, 2008. Sample topics include, but are not limited to, medical imaging, security visualizations, analysis techniques and data mining, high-performance computing and parallel rendering, and virtual environments.
— Posted 22 July 2008
IU School of Informatics launches blog
To further distribute news about informatics and the overall field of information technology, the IU School of Informatics is now publishing a blog, available online and via RSS. The blog features event announcements, articles of interest, resource links, and general food for thought. It also includes a searchable archive.
— Posted 22 July 2008
Indiana Spatial Data Portal and Service
Join Geographic Information Systems (GIS) staff from IU, the Indiana Geological Survey, and the Polis Center in exploring the IU community’s geospatial imagery needs: Research Technologies Roundtable; Thursday, July 31, 12:30-1:30pm; IUB Radio-TV 180 and IUPUI ICTC 497. Discussions will cover the current database and online services, projects which rely upon these resources, and upcoming statewide imagery and services.
— Posted 17 July 2008
Clarian a "Most Wired" health system
Inside INdiana Business reports that Clarian Health was named one of the nation's Most Wired health systems for the seventh time according to Hospitals & Health Networks magazine. Most Wired hospitals show better outcomes in key quality measures through the use of IT. Indiana University hospitals and the IU School of Medicine are part of the Clarian partnership.
— Posted 16 July 2008
IU center receives NIH grant
A new IU center specializing in scientific imagery has been open only a few weeks and has already acquired a $930K National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to expand its services. IU is one of only 20 institutions chosen this year to receive an NIH High-End Instrumentation Grant. The IU Light Microscopy Imaging Center (LMIC), based in Myers Hall on the IU Bloomington campus, currently offers seven different imaging systems and is set to acquire an eighth.
— Posted 16 July 2008
EDUCAUSE Live! Spotlight: Identity Outreach at IU
A recent EDUCAUSE Live! Spotlight features a presentation by IU's Kim Milford and Alan Walsh who discuss identity management in the context of the Indiana Innovation Alliance, a joint IU-Purdue-Clarian Health project to expand research in the life sciences in Indiana. Medical and science staff who float across organizational boundaries pose a challenge for identity management. Milford is special assistant to the CIO. Walsh is manager, Identity Management Systems. Download the PowerPoint file.
— Posted 15 July 2008
IU student team wins Imagine Cup
Campus Technology Magazine reports that two IU School of Informatics graduate students won first place in the sixth annual Imagine Cup, an international competition sponsored by Microsoft, in the category of interface design. David Roedl and Will Odom, both students in the informatics human-computer interaction design program, developed the idea and subsequent web site for the recent "IU Energy Challenge." See also: IU news release.
— Updated 14 July 2008
UITS orients new students to IT
Over the summer thousands of students will visit IU Bloomington and IUPUI for New Student Orientation. Information technology is a crucial piece of the orientation puzzle and University Information Technology Services (UITS) staff offer resources and support to help students get started. UITS staff and vendor partner representatives offer advice and know-how to the new students who flood into Herman B Wells Library in Bloomington and the IUPUI Campus Center. UITS also has set up a special online resource for new students called "NU2IT."
— Posted 11 July 2008
Informatics grad launches software company
Sandosh Vasudevan, a native of India who came to Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) for graduate school, is developing software applications that are turning heads in Silicon Valley and beyond. Vasudevan has launched a startup company called TiseMe, an Indianapolis-based developer of software and web tools.
— Posted 10 July 2008
IU Informatics professor receives $120K grant
Eli Lilly and Co. has awarded a one-year, $120,000 grant to David Wild, assistant professor in the Indiana University School of Informatics, to research ways to data mine the ever-increasing amount of publicly available information about chemical compounds and their biological activities.
— Posted 8 July 2008
IT@IU Podcast: I-Light Press Conference
In a ceremony in South Bend, officials from IU, Ivy Tech, and the State announce completion of I-Light, the fiber-optic network providing every public and private college campus in Indiana with ultra high-speed connectivity. A commemorative video is included in the presentation. Get the video file (305MB). Subscribe to IT@IU Podcasts.
— Posted 7 July 2008
IPFW students create scholarly database
Challenged by administrative and library officials to build an online repository of faculty accomplishments, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) computer science students delivered iBidX, a public database featuring 2,500 faculty-produced publications, patents, programs, and instructional materials. Using iBidX, IPFW faculty input records of their research and creative activity, which are then searchable by name, school/department, year, or publication type.
— Posted 3 July 2008
IU Northwest embraces podcasting and vodcasting
Thanks to the IU Faculty Podcasting Initiative, nine professors at IU Northwest are setting out to enhance their teaching through digital recordings of lectures, labs, field research, and teaching demonstrations. IU's partnerships with Apple and AT&T enabled IUN to purchase $113,000 worth of recording technologies (including iPod Nanos, camcorders, and microphones) and software for the establishment of departmental production spaces to ready these podcasts and vodcasts for the Web.
— Posted 3 July 2008
Cyberinfrastructure: In Tune for the Future
In the July/August 2008 issue of EDUCAUSE Review, IU VP for IT Brad Wheeler co-authors an overview of cyberinfrastructure -- moving beyond the mere idea of technology to creating a culture of collaboration. Cyberinfrastructure is defined as connecting "institutions, researchers, educators, and students with high-performance computing, remote sensors, large data sets, middleware, and sophisticated applications such as visualization tools and virtual environments."
— Posted 2 July 2008
$1.9M to aid geriatric care
Thanks to a $1.9M grant from Indiana’s 21st Century Research and Technology Fund, a new software tool being developed at IUPUI will enable care providers to access and input geriatric care field experience and research data and patient outcome information in a simple, easy-to-use computer-based system.
— Posted 1 July 2008
Informatics professor receives $1.1M NIH grant
Yaoqi Zhou, director of the bioinformatics graduate program and professor at the IUPUI School of Informatics, has received a $1.1M grant from the National Institutes of Health for his research on "Statistical Energy Functions: a Fragment-based Approach." Many chronic and fatal illnesses -- including Alzheimer's disease, Cystic Fibrosis, and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow disease) -- are caused by malfunctions of proteins called "nanomachines." Dr. Zhou's research proposes to discover the energy function that governs these proteins, defining their interactions.
— Posted 30 June 2008
