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When Worlds Collide: The Thomas Jefferson Papers in the Era of eBay

By Jon Edwards · October 27, 2006

At OIT’s Lunch ‘n Learn on October 25, Kevin Guthrie ‘84 discussed the new forces and organizations emerging from today’s rapidly evolving networked economy that pose new challenges for the academic enterprise and for...

Posted in Library, New Media, Tech News, Tools for Teaching

Co-Founder of Wikipedia, Now a Critic, Starts Spinoff With Academic Editors

By outside author · October 18, 2006

By BROCK READ Can scholars build a better version of Wikipedia? Larry Sanger, a co-founder who has since become a critic of the open-source encyclopedia, intends to find out. This week Mr. Sanger announced...

Posted in Tech News

High Performance Computing: the Princeton Experience

By Jon Edwards · October 12, 2006

At OIT’s Lunch ‘n Learn presentation on October 11, three of the faculty who were instrumental in architecting the new high performance facility - Bill Tang (Chief Scientist at PPPL and Associate Director of PICSciE),...

Posted in Faculty Spotlights, Research Computing

Students are Mac-in' it

By outside author · October 12, 2006

By Doug Eshleman, Princetonian Contributor Dude, you’re getting a Dell! Well … maybe not any more. According to the Office of Information Technology (OIT), 45 percent of computers purchased this year were Macs, more than...

Posted in Princeton Specific, Tech News

Princeton establishes leading research computing facility

By Cass Cliatt · October 2, 2006

Princeton NJ — Maintaining its place at the forefront of scientific research, Princeton has brought together three high-performance supercomputers to establish one of the nation’s leading university-based research computing facilities. The move comes as...

Posted in News from OIT, Princeton Specific, Research Computing