Monthly Archives: March 2010

UIT Makes Strong Showing at Annual NERCOMP Conference

Members of Tufts’ University Information Technology team turned out in force for the annual NorthEast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) conference, held in Providence, RI, March 8th-10th. The 2010 conference, titled The Next-Generation University: Rethinking IT in Disruptive Times, included keynotes … Continue reading

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UIT and DCA to Host Regional Fedora Digital Repository Conference

Tufts University Digital Collections & Archives and UIT Academic Technology present a one-day regional Fedora conference. July 20, 2010 9 AM-5 PM In a tough economy, it’s especially important to make sure we stay in touch with our local colleagues … Continue reading

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Data Visualization Project Gives Students New Take On Peace and Justice Studies

Data visualization technologies are becoming ubiquitous in many areas of academia today. This past fall, members of the academic technology staff had the opportunity to work on an exciting data visualization project with an introductory course in Peace and Justice … Continue reading

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UIT acquires testing environment for research cluster to improve quality of service

In December 2009, UIT completed the acquisition and implementation of a new testing environment for the Tufts high-performance computing research cluster. This testing environment includes a head node, a management node and 2 computing nodes absolutely identical to the ones … Continue reading

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Learning Management Systems (LMS) Project Team Continues to Make Progress

The University LMS project team has completed usability testing with clients on all three campuses, as well as initial technical and functional evaluation, and these working groups are reporting on findings to the core team this week. The LMS advisory … Continue reading

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Tufts Launches GuardIt Security Website

UIT in collaboration with Tufts Digital Archives and Collections has developed an informative website called GuardIt to provide information on data privacy as well as seven Healthy Security Habits we can all employ. Please take a moment to visit http://go.tufts.edu/guardit … Continue reading

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