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atc.cit.cornell.edu

CIT division that helps faculty and others integrate information technology and instruction. It also provides resources, support, and training to the Cornell community.

A reporting system used at Cornell for complex business reports, such as phone bills and Payroll reports.
www.accounting.cornell.edu/Actuate_Tutorial.cfm

CIT division that serves as a breeding ground for new ideas, and as a vehicle for introducing and supporting these ideas in the broader IT community.

ata.cit.cornell.edu

An optional, name-based e-mail address available to all faculty and staff. Also known as COEA: Cornell Optional E-mail Alias.
www.cit.cornell.edu/email/alias/

See Advanced Technology & Architecture

See Academic Technology Center

See Academic Technology Services & User Support

Cornell's voice mail system, available to faculty and staff, and to students who subscribe to the ResPhone service.
www.cit.cornell.edu/services/phones/audixhow.html

 A uPortal.cornell channel that provides easy access to online services for the Cornell community.

An ad hoc querying tool used with central administrative and local databases (also known as Brio-Hyperion Insight).
brio.cit.cornell.edu 

Service from CIT's Messaging Group that delivers your e-mail message to large numbers of recipients, for example, all staff or all alumni.
www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/email/bulk/

See Oracle Calendar

General term for Cornell's mainframe resources: CornellC, INSTRUCT, Gaea

Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research, which provides support services for social science research.
ciser.cornell.edu

See Cornell Information Technologies

CIT department that works to select and support use of multimedia in classrooms and throughout Cornell.
atsus.cit.cornell.edu/atsus/programs/classroom_technologies.cfm

see alias

Cornell Online Timecard System. The system used by most hourly employees to record hours worked.
payroll.cornell.edu/colts2.cfm

CIT department which assists the Cornell community with computer and technology-related issues (formerly known as the CIT HelpDesk).
www.cit.cornell.edu/helpdesk

Department that provides high-performance computing system, application, and data solutions.
www.cac.cornell.edu

The central information technology organization for Cornell.
www.cit.cornell.edu

The online course enrollment system for students.
registrar.sas.cornell.edu/Student/coursenroll.html

CIT service to provide personal web pages for Cornell students, staff, and faculty, which will be decommissioned on June 30, 2009 and is currently accepting no new registrations.
www.people.cornell.edu

Cornell's online information system, a large web site that provides access to everything from course listings and the electronic directory to movie schedules and the weather report.
cuinfo.cornell.edu

Former name for DirecTV at Cornell

A set of tools that allows Cornell web administrators to require a Cornell NetID and password for access to certain restricted web resources.
identity.cit.cornell.edu/authn/

A web-based method for Kerberos authentication (uses SSL encryption).
www.cit.cornell.edu/identity/cuweblogin/

A distributed learning project run by Cornell's Adult University. CyberTower provides multimedia lectures and presentations, discussion forums, and commentaries.
cybertower.cornell.edu  

IP-based entertainment television service, available in the university residence halls and to departments and institutions. Formerly known as CUTV.

www.cit.cornell.edu/cutv/

See Extension to Cellular

An online directory of all active NetIDs.
www.cornell.edu/search/?tab=people

A web-based service that allows Cornell employees to view their human resources information, and to update their home address and phone number.
ee.ohr.cornell.edu

A program for reading and sending electronic mail. Eudora is supported by CIT, but is being phased out.
www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/email/eudora/

A free dial-up service for students and retired faculty and staff that provides four 15-minute connections per day.
www.cit.cornell.edu/expresslane/

Optional feature for telephone service that lets you use your cell phone to receive calls placed to your on-campus landline phone number.

www.cit.cornell.edu/services/phones/ec500/

An automated service that saves copies of subscribers' files to centralized storage.
ezbackup.cornell.edu

A free service for printing from the CornellC mainframe or other time-sharing host environment to a printer connected to the campus network.
www.cit.cornell.edu/services/ezprint/

CIT's subscription dial-in service that allows you to use the Internet over a phone line, using a computer and modem.
www.cit.cornell.edu/ezremote/brief.html

An initiative to upgrade the data and phone infrastructure in many campus buildings over a period of several years.
www.cit.cornell.edu/projects/ezranet/

See Faculty Advisory Board on Information Technologies

Former name for the CIT Contact Center

CIT division that provides analysis, design, implementation, and production support services to the university's business offices in their use of information technology.

A group of IT professionals representing all Cornell colleges and divisions, coordinating to meet the university's technological needs.

confluence.cornell.edu/display/ITMC/The+IT+Managers+Council

CIT division that defines and implements the common computing/software/information access environment for the campus

See Information Systems

CIT office charged with ensuring the security and integrity of the university's computer systems, networks, and data.
confluence.cornell.edu/display/OIT/IT+Security+Office

See Information Technology Managers Council

Former name for the Student Center

A security system for protecting access to personal, confidential information on computer networks.

The timeclocks used by some hourly employees to record hours worked.

(Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) A set of protocols for accessing information in directories, used at Cornell for the Electronic Directory.

Electronic mailing list (e-list) software used at Cornell.

www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/elist/lyris/

See Network and Communication Services

A CIT service that allows you to print from your computer (or one in a computer lab) to laser printers located in many campus buildings.
www.cit.cornell.edu/net-print/

A personal, unique identifier assigned to everyone in the Cornell community, consisting of initials followed by one or more numbers, used to obtain access to online services, such as e-mail and administrative systems.

CIT division that provides analysis, design, implementation, and production support services to the university's business offices in their use of information technology.

CIT department that operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to ensure the reliability of campus voice, video, and data communications.

A fee for using the Cornell network to communicate with off-campus locations, NUBB includes a monthly fee and additional charges if a monthly threshold is exceeded.

See Network Usage-Based Billing

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The CIT division that works with the vice president for information technologies (Polley McClure) to provide strategic, campus-wide leadership for information technology; CIT reports to the vice president.

See Office of Information Technologies

A suite of tools that will enable reporting and analysis for all Cornell business areas.

www.cit.cornell.edu/about/projects/obiee/

University-funded, central calendaring service.

www.cit.cornell.edu/calendar/

See Position and Employee Data Lookup

The online system that handles nearly all university administrative computing data, including payroll, human resources, alumni affairs and development, and student systems.

An application developed at Cornell which controls who can access online services.

An online system allowing department administrators to access personnel and appointment data.
pedl.cornell.edu

A general term for Cornell e-mail servers.

The wi-fi (wireless networking) service offered by CIT.
www.cit.cornell.edu/redrover/

Data network service for students living in residence halls.
www.cit.cornell.edu/resnet/

Landline telephone service for students living in residence halls.
www.cit.cornell.edu/resphone/

See Systems & Operations

(obsolete) Written at Cornell, an extension to Kerberos protection for online services that didn't have Kerberos built in. Phased out December 2008. See Kerberos

Web-based tutorials on a variety of computer and management topics.
www.cit.cornell.edu/training/skillsoft/

See SkillSoft

A network service that gives students access to their information from three areas: Academics, Finances, and Personal Information.
www.registrar.sas.cornell.edu/Student/jtf.html

A division of CIT that provides infrastructure, services, and operational support to other parts of CIT and to the campus.

The computer and technology department at The Cornell Store.
store.cornell.edu/tc/

Former name for the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing

The print version of Cornell’s telephone book.

The enterprise web portal for Cornell, a web-based interface providing a customizable starting point for retrieving information.
uportal.cornell.edu

Cornell University's training registration system where you can register for training workshops and courses offered by departments around campus.
cornell.veplan.net

A web-based service that enables users to set e-mail preferences and update directory information.
www.whoiam.cornell.edu