Several universities, including Cornell University and the University of Florida, will develop a network over the next two years in the hopes of helping scientists find other academics to work with. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Wired Campus
Cornell’s Faculty Innovation in Teaching Program is experimenting with A.nnotate as a way for students to add comments to and provide feedback on collaborative writing projects
As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Cornell welcomes other universities to use Cornell's computer security book as a resource for the development of campus awareness and educational materials. See full story in The Computing at Cornell Security web site
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the libraries of Cornell and Columbia Universities $385,000 to explore collaboration opportunities. See full story in the Chronicle Online.
An email scam linking to a replica of the official Cornell CUWebLogin page is tricking unsuspecting Cornellians into giving away their Net-ID and password.
At least one university press--Duke's--does not like the Federal Trade Commission's new guidelines governing "endorsements and testimonials." See full story in Chronicle of Higher Education
Two English professors have created a new blog targeted at faculty that looks at the intersection of productivity, technology, and pedagogy in higher education. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
The stores hope to stay relevant as publishers make a push to electronic textbooks. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
In an effort to bring down the cost of learning materials, a new project will allow Florida college students to get digital versions of some of their textbooks free, The St. Petersberg Times reported on Thursday. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
CyberTower now offers more video and new ways to find free virtual courses from Cornell scholars. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
The Cornell Chronicle summarizes the EzraNet Project's achievement of Wi-Fi signal throughout the North Campus Residence Halls, and also covers the addition of AT&T cellular antennas on Bradfield and Mary Donlon Halls. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
Five months after the University converted more than 15,000 users to Cmail, a Google-based email system, CIT is working on a Microsoft-based equivalent, Umail. With an anticipated 2010 rollout, Umail would add another option for Cornell students. See full story in Cornell Daily Sun
The National Endowment for the Humanities is going semi-transparent with its grants. Its new website allows people to search for recipients of NEH money by name, by field of inquiry, by date of award, or by institution. See full story in Chronicle of Higher Education
CIT has introduced a set of telecommuting guides for faculty, staff, IT professionals and Cornell leaders. Learn about ways you can use technology to be productive when you are away from your campus office.
With a test of Cornell's emergency mass notification system planned for early October, the Office of Emergency Planning and Recovery is urging students, faculty and staff to register or update their emergency contact information. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
A new program seeks to give Cornell faculty, researchers, staff and students access to publish in scholarly online journals See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
In an effort to support alternatives to traditional scholarly publishing, five major research universities, including Cornell, announced an agreement to the timely establishment of mechanisms for providing financial support for free open-access journals. See full story in The Wired Campus
Two new AT&T cell sites have been installed on campus to improve 3G wireless coverage.
On Sept. 3 EDUCAUSE and VeriSign announced the initiation of a project to enhance Internet reliability and stability by the end of March 2010. See full story in EDUCAUSE Press Releases
An iPhone, Skype, and Google street view were all it took for one lucky Carnegie Mellon student to catch a group of armed robbers. See full story in Carnegie Mellon Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Starting November 1 texting while driving will be illegal in New York State. See full story in Cornell Daily Sun
University staff can use this guide to get an at-a-glance overview of which browsers work with which Cornell administrative applications.
A central blog service for campus, provided by CIT Faculty Support Services and CU Library, supports blogs for teaching, research, Library, and university communication activities.
José Martínez and Kevin Tang, both Cornell electrical and computer engineering faculty members, have each received a 2009 IBM Faculty Award, announced earlier this month. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
It is now possible to look up RedRover Wi-Fi coverage at Cornell on an interactive Google map.
In an audio segment from the Chronicle of Higher Education's Tech Therapy, Ann Kovalchick, the deputy chief information officer at Tulane University, describes the qualities that make a good leader in IT—and in higher education generally. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
A Boston University graduate student has been ordered by a federal jury to pay four music companies $675,000 for downloading and distributing more than two dozen copyrighted songs. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Beginning August 5, 2009, Cornell DNS servers will no longer respond to off-campus queries. This may disrupt Internet services for off-campus computers that have been manually set up to use Cornell for DNS.
Web design and development at Cornell just got a bit more economical, thanks to the rate decrease for CIT’s Integrated Web Services. The new rate is $90 per hour.
Cornell's distance-learning subsidiary eCornell will launch a new online certificate program in systems design called "A Systems Approach to Product and Service Design." See full story in Chronicle Online
A Mellon grant will enable the Cornell University Library and an alliance of historically black colleges and universities create and manage digital collections. See full story in Chronicle Online
A study by North Carolina Central University found that most students overestimated their skill levels when they were asked how they perceived their ability to complete certain tasks and then tested on those tasks. See full story in Chronicle of Higher Education
RedRover-Secure can now be used with the iPhone or iPod Touch.
Rafael Pass, assistant professor of computer science, has been selected as one of five 2009 Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellows. His fellowship will support research into new ways to conduct transactions safely and reliably online. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
CIT is introducing expanded Wi-Fi services for campus visitors. Beginning Saturday, July 25th, visitors may register and have full, temporary, network access through RedRover, Cornell's Wi-Fi network.
Using online versions of the news, Cornell computer scientists have managed to track and analyze the way stories rise and fall in popularity. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
Cornell University has learned that a university-owned computer that was stolen in early June contained the names and Social Security numbers of approximately 45,000 current and former staff and students and some dependents. See full story in The Cornell Chronicle
Online learning has definite advantages over face-to-face instruction when it comes to teaching and learning, according to a new meta-analysis released Friday by the U.S. Department of Education. See full story in Inside Higher Ed
To get ready for the campus-wide transition to Exchange-based email this fall, a couple of settings will need to be updated in the email clients of all faculty and staff who access their email through a CIT postoffice account.
Cornell Library's Information Competency Initiative aims to improve student research skills by helping faculty redesign their courses' research components. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
Blackboard Support is happy to announce that blackboard.cornell.edu has been upgraded to version 7.3, and the new system is now online and available.
Five colleges and a research organization have been named to Computerworld's list of the 100 Best Places to Work in IT in 2009. See full story in Chronicle of Higher Education
The licensing agreement covers Microsoft Office, Windows operating system upgrades and CORE Client Access Licenses.
Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Cornell's John P. and Rilla Neafsey Professor of Computing, Information Science and Business, has been named the university's dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science (CIS). See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
More than 250 registered attendees visited with technology vendors and service providers, attended seminars and browsed a display of antique computer gear.
Fred B. Schneider, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science, explains the value of expanding academic cybersecurity research in technology, policy and human behavior. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
In the Duffield Atrium, browse Cornell IT services, chat with outside vendors, attend a free IT seminar, watch computer history movie shorts, and enjoy complimentary snacks and ice cream.
Nearly 200 researchers from universities, private laboratories and
government agencies will converge on Cornell June 8-11 for the first
conference on computational sustainability. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
Researchers in Cornell's Department of Computer Science have come up with new algorithms to simulate sounds generated by computer graphic objects. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
The Summer College's recruitment, admissions and registration have gone "paperless" whenever possible. Formal decision letters, tuition statements, welcome letters, and other documents are now e-mailed or posted online rather than printed and mailed. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
Cornell University Library no longer requires users to secure permission or pay any accompanying permissions fees to reproduce or publish public domain material from its digital collections. See full story in Cornell Daily Sun
Syracuse University and IBM are teaming up to build a computer center that officials hope will be a model for green computing and green building. See full story in Chronicle of Higher Education
On June 10, about 40 students in Bryant & Stratton College's online-degree program will go to Second Life to watch computer simulations of their college graduation. See full story in Chronicle of Higher Education
A Blackboard 7.3 upgrade will take place between May 27 and June 18, 2009. Blackboard.cornell.edu will be unavailable during that time.
Cornell’s Express Lane and EZ-Remote dial-up Internet services will end June 30 and August 31, respectively. Both services are no longer offering new registration. Alternative service providers are listed at the EZ-Remote web site. See full story in EZ-Remote web site
With a half-million dollar Office of Naval Research grant, a Cornell statistician will shrink massive data sets into manageable approximations to detect Internet glitches and support machine learning. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
This summer, James Elkins '11 and Eli Luxenberg '11 will hand out
free laptops to 100 elementary schoolchildren in the rural city of
Tidjikja, Mauritania, in northwest Africa, thanks to a $30,000 grant. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
On Sunday, May 17, there will be network maintenance occurring between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. For about 5 minutes, beginning at 6:00 a.m., many central computing services will be unavailable.
EZ-Backup data is now copied to a secure off-campus location, helping departments meet high standards for data protection but at no additional cost.
Cornell students now have a new service for their email: Cmail. Along with email, Cmail includes calendar, collaboration, and other tools.
Professor Jon Kleinberg is the recipient of the 2008 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences for his contributions to improving Web search techniques that allow Web users worldwide to find relevant, credible information on the Internet. See full story in the Cornell Chronicle
Amazon Web Services' new education programs allow educators, academic researchers, and students to apply for free usage credits for cloud computing. See full story in Amazon Web Services Newsletter
All summer courses will be transferred from the current production Blackboard system to the Summer Blackboard system between 6:00 P.M. May 5 and 6:00 A.M. May 6. Instructors should not
make changes to summer courses during this time.
Cornell scientists have downloaded and analyzed nearly 35 million Flickr photos taken by more than 300,000 photographers from around the globe, using a supercomputer at the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC). See full story in Chronical Online
CIT compares Cornell’s approach to billing for network usage to still-developing Time Warner billing strategies in a new paper: “Comparison of Cornell network billing model vs. emerging Time Warner model.” See full story in Office of Information Technologies Reports and Presentations
CIT VP Polley McClure and two directors are taking the staff retirement incentive. This, along with 19 other CIT retirees, will result in changes for CIT.
To provide instant access to scholarly resources, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization this week inaugurated its World Digital Library, a web site dedicated to artifacts spanning the history of civilization. See full story in Chronicle of Higher Education
As part of a transition to third-party email vendors, the University is slated to announce later this week that starting on Thursday students will be able to access their Cornell email through a Google-based server, like Gmail, called “Cmail.” See full story in Cornell Daily Sun
A researcher at Ohio State University found that students who use Facebook reported earning lower grade-point averages than nonusers of the social-networking service. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Microsoft has announced that it will soon euthanize Encarta, the onetime encyclopedia-of-the-future that has lost much of its luster in the last decade. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
CU People, Cornell's personal web page service, will be decommissioned on June 30, 2009. Other on-campus options include Confluence, VIVO, and Faculty Support Services
for people with pages related to teaching, research, or academics.
The latest variant of the Conficker worm—sophisticated computer malware that uses the Internet to invade and extract data from computers running Windows operating systems—infected between 700 and 800 computers at the University of Utah. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
There are many challenges of providing students with good online learning instruction and providing faculty members with the tools to deliver it. That’s the message in the results of a new survey of community colleges. See full story in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Traditional computing labs can become flexible, tech-enhanced learning spaces through research, stakeholder involvement, and small, high-impact changes, writes Clare van den Blink, CIT's Assistant Director of Academic Technology Services & User Support. See full story in Educause Quarterly
Cornell's Lab of Ornithology has moved from manual Java coding processes to Spring to develop applications on one of its flagship Web sites, eBird. The Spring programming platform is based on open-source products. See full story in Campus Technology
Cornell researchers will have access to Yahoo!'s cloud computing cluster, known as M45, to conduct large-scale systems software research and explore new applications that analyze Internet-scale data sets. See full story in Cornell Daily Sun
Cellular coverage will improve with the addition of new AT&T antennas, perhaps as soon as late summer, according to Tom Ball, voice engineering manager at CIT. Sprint and T-mobile have been held back due to funding, but are interested and welcome.
See full story in Cornell Chronicle
A team of three Cornell undergraduates will be among 100 teams competing in the world finals of the Association of Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest. The contest pits teams against complex, real-world problems.
See full story in Cornell Chronicle
More than 20,000 Cornell University students will be provided with new services for email, calendar, and collaboration through arrangements the university has made with Google and with Microsoft.
A highlight of Cornell Sustainability Month is Power Down for the Planet Day, April 8. Cornellians will be building awareness of how small changes in computer power settings can reduce by tons the amount of CO2 entering the atmosphere every year.
CIT has announced the availability of Departmental Virtual Private Networks (VPN). Departmental VPN allows units to provide individuals identified by and working within the unit with secure, authenticated remote access to campus networks and services.
All Blackboard courses that have not been used since August 1, 2006, will be deleted on April 15. Instructors must submit a request to keep courses they do not want deleted.
In the search for yet-undiscovered pulsars or ultra-fast spinning neutron stars, a grand-scale sky survey at the Cornell-managed Arecibo Observatory is using the processing power of personal computers around the world. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
With just a few mouse clicks, computer users on campus could save
Cornell about $1 million a year, according to Cornell Information
Technologies (CIT). See full story in Cornell Chronicle
President David Skorton spends a considerable amount of his time meeting with alumni. But if a recent webcast "town hall meeting" was any indication, in the coming months he will be "meeting" with a lot more alumni a lot more often. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
The Conficker worm is programmed to update itself on April 1. Security experts anticipate that the update will improve Conficker's ability to protect itself, but not cause other damage. Find out how to protect your computer against Conficker.
Google is handing out $4,500 stipends to a select group of college students who will spend this summer contributing to open-source projects, including ones that compete with Google’s own software. See full story in Chronicle of Higher Education
Getting rid of hard disks, cartridges, floppies, and certain types of video and audio tape formats? Want to be sure the data is gone for good? Send them for a spin through Cornell Recycling's new degausser. See full story in Cornell Disk/Tape Degausser web pages
The Cornell University Library has launched the Cornell Undergraduate Information Competency Initiative to help faculty members help students to become better researchers in the digital age. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
The Cornell IT Security Office has just published a new e-book, “Computer Security at Cornell: Secure Your
Computer On and Off Campus.” See full story in Cornell Pawprint
Check out the new “Current Status of CIT
Services” callout on the right side of the Computing
at Cornell home page
From the works of James Joyce to a copyrighted periodical of a chemist, thousands of books and manuscripts from the Cornell Library will be digitized and made available to the world through an expanded partnership between the University and Amazon.com. See full story in Cornell Daily Sun
Cornell computer science students are using games to attract public school students to computer science. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
Cornell University Police officers will soon have new communications tools at hand through mobile data terminals in their patrol cars. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
Videotaping lectures and making them available on the Web in an interactive, searchable format seems to help students get better exam scores. But the idea raises questions. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
Computers around the world are threatened by a new, rapidly spreading worm. While information technology specialists are working to control the worm’s spread, Cornell has not been impacted by the most recent outbreak. See full story in Cornell Daily Sun
A new Academic Technology Center (ATC) opened in Stimson Hall on February 4. The center provides faculty, instructors, and graduate TAs a second campus location where they find help and training in the use of computer technologies for instruction. See full story in Faculty Support Services Newsletter
Flex work arrangements meet many needs for both supervisors and employees. CIT tells how its arrangements are developed and for what reasons. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
A new e-book, Computer Security at Cornell, provides information about how to recognize and respond to security problems, how to protect your identity and university data, and how to secure the computer you use at Cornell.
The job market may look increasingly bleak for graduating seniors and young alumni, but "10GoodMinutes," a free weekly podcast of interviews with experts can help. The 10-minute recordings offer career advice to help allay fears over the sinking economy. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
On Sunday, February 15, there will be network maintenance occurring between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. that will affect many central computing services.
Tal Rusak, a senior majoring in computer science, is the 2009 winner of the Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Award. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
Jay Walker '77, chairman of Walker Digital and founder of Priceline.com, has been named the 2009 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year. He will be honored on campus during the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration April 16-17. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
Diana Oblinger, president of Educause, said: "The most immediate challenges for IT in 2009 will be to show how IT can help address the financial challenges our institutions are experiencing." See full story in Cornell Chronicle
Quarterly meetings to keep everyone up to date on the current status and future plans for CIT's web hosting services are open to all interested faculty and staff. Our next meeting is January 22, 10:30 am to 12 noon, in 525 ILR Conference Center.
The H. Laurance and Nancy Fuller Learning Center provides unsurpassed videoconferencing and presentation capabilities on campus and "the most advanced capabilities to connect with the medical college." See full story in Ezra Magazine
EZ-Backup, the service Cornell trusts to back up all its data, has just become cheaper. Rates were lowered 30 percent for service over the base amount, which increased from 6 GB to 8.5 GB of compressed data per month.
The coming year will bring changes in Cornell's email system. Faculty and staff email will move to the Microsoft Exchange system, and student email is expected to be managed through Google and Microsoft. CIT calls the project "Ensemble." See full story in Cornell Chronicle
Over the last couple of weeks, more than 100 Windows computers on campus were infected with a dangerous computer worm because people were taken in by e-mails claiming to offer a Hallmark e-card from a friend or promotions from McDonald's or Coca-Cola. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
A student group collects computers from people who no longer need them to send to people who do. But logistics are far from easy when the people getting the computers live in places as far-flung as Liberia, Zambia, Afghanistan, South Africa and Jamaica. See full story in Cornell Chronicle
