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By John LeMasney · October 3, 2011
IT’s Academic will remain here for posterity, but we are moving new updates and other interactive content to our new Educational Technologies Center site at http://etc.princeton.edu/blogPlease visit us there and let us know what you think!...
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By John LeMasney · May 5, 2011
At the Lunch and Learn on April 27th, 2011, Dennis Hood spoke about what Blackboard users should expect from the latest version of Blackboard at Princeton. He demonstrated the cosmetic and functional changes that will come after the upgrade in June. Blackboard 2011 offers more straightforward navigation, tools for increased productivity with less clicks, and a cleaner look and feel.
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By John LeMasney · April 28, 2011
John Wilkin at the University of Michigan, and Jon Stroop & Marvin Bielawski at Princeton University are helping HathiTrust to digitize and share the world's recorded knowledge using the combined effort of fifty institutions. HathiTrust is described on their web site at http://hathitrust.org as "a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future" and their mission is "to contribute to the common good by collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge."
Posted in Copyright and Fair Use, Grants and Funding, Library, New Media, Princeton Specific, Tech News
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By John LeMasney · April 6, 2011
PULSe - the Princeton University Learning Series is a new IT learning opportunity that supports many of the technologies OIT makes available. Faculty, staff, and students - anyone with a Princeton netID - can participate in the live Friday afternoon webinars or access recorded tutorials on available services such as SharePoint, Roxen, and WebSpace. PULSe maintains a presence on Twitter and Facebook where additional resources are shared. In this Productive Scholar session, you will be introduced to the site, its features, and the iLinc web conferencing system that is used to present the weekly webinars.
Lynda.com is a California-based company that offers online training materials on popular software platforms, web applications, and consumer technology. Some are short introductions to a new technology or software package. Others are in-depth instructions on software applications or suites.
Posted in New Media, News from OIT, Princeton Specific, Tools for Teaching, Training
By John LeMasney · March 10, 2011
Introduction At the Lunch ‘n Learn session on Wednesday, March 9th, 2011, Donna Liu explained and demonstrated AllPrinceton.com, a "hyperlocal multimedia experiment" of which she is the founder and Executive Director. AllPrinceton is not...
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By Janet Temos · February 10, 2011
David Hollander, Law and Legal Studies Librarian at Princeton, and Willow Dressel, Assistant Librarian at Princeton's Engineering and Furth Libraries, gave a talk on Wednesday, February 9th about the history of patents. . .
Posted in Copyright and Fair Use, Library, Princeton Specific
By Jon Edwards · April 14, 2010
In the Fall term of 2009, Princeton conducted a pilot sponsored by the High Meadows Foundation, the University Library, and the Office of Information Technology, to assess the use of e-readers in the classroom. The...
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By Jon Edwards · April 7, 2010
Princeton University has created a cyberinfrastructure, says Curt Hillegas, the Director of Princeton's TIGRESS High Performance Computing and Visualization Center, itself a collaboration between the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE). Developed...
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By Jon Edwards · March 10, 2010
Imagine harnessing the power of the sun within a magnetic bottle. Unlike hydrogen bombs, which are essentially uncontrolled fusion reactions, scientists for decades have been pursuing the peaceful challenge of safely harnessing fusion energy, a...
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By Jon Edwards · November 18, 2009
For the past three decades, the Princeton University Art Museum and the Office of Information Technology have collaborated on many innovative projects. During the 1980s. the Piero Project produced a real time three-dimensional tour...
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By Jon Edwards · May 28, 2009
You don’t have to be a fan of Sex in the City to know that it’s important to backup your data. If you have not seen this wonderful vignette, take a moment to see...
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By Jon Edwards · May 6, 2009
For those who still assume that the Psychology faculty analyze subconscious thoughts and place rats in mazes, Matthew Botvinick represents an eye opening cup of java. Building on the foundations of cognitive psychology, Botvinick’s laboratory...
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By Jon Edwards · April 1, 2009
Imagine being paid, or getting Princeton credit, for playing with trains and Legos™. For more than 25 years, Professor Michael G. Littman, of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton, has taught MAE 412 Microprocessors for...
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By Jon Edwards · February 19, 2009
The National Science Foundation has funded a multimillion-dollar Engineering Research Center based at Princeton University that is expected to revolutionize sensor technology, yielding devices that have a unique ability to detect minute amounts of chemicals...
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By Sam Wang · February 12, 2009
Having highlighted his work in a previous post, we invited Professor Sam Wang to speak at Lunch ‘n Learn on February 11. He graciously forwarded the following thoughts: It was great fun to be...
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By Jon Edwards · December 10, 2008
While computers are exponentially more powerful and increasingly important in both society and in every area of scholastic inquiry, modern computers appear to be incapable of solving certain problems. In recent decades, computer scientists have...
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By Jon Edwards · December 5, 2008
Professor Lee Silver gets around. He’s discussed cloning with Charlie Rose, stem cells with Ted Koppel, and designer babies on the BBC. You can even watch him tangle with Stephen Colbert. A professor at...
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By Jon Edwards · October 23, 2008
Faculty are taking full advantage of Princeton’s TIGRESS High-Performance Computing Center. Professor Jeroen Tromp, the Blair Professor of Geology and Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics came to Princeton in July from Caltech. Among...
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By Jon Edwards · October 1, 2008
On October 1, Patty Gaspari-Bridges, Assistant University Librarian for Special Libraries and Head of the Science and Technology Libraries and four other science librarians (Jane Holmquist, Steven Adams, Julie Arnheim, and Louise Deis) led a...
Posted in Library, Princeton Specific
By Jon Edwards · September 22, 2008
The vast print and online resources of the Princeton University Library can overwhelm even seasoned scholars. Most researchers are so busy with their daily responsibilities that there’s little opportunity for exploration and staying current with...
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By Jon Edwards · September 18, 2008
Ken King of CUNY was the first to joke that it took three decades for the overhead projector to find its way from the bowling alley to the classroom. His point, true until recently, was...
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By Jon Edwards · May 7, 2008
The Princeton University Library is one of nearly 30 partners in the Google Book Scanning Project, an effort to integrate major library collections. Google expects that the project will connect researchers with key scholarly works...
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By Jon Edwards · April 9, 2008
OIT’s recent Strategic Planning effort identified the need for a “data lifeline,” a comprehensive way to store digital information, ways to search and archive the data, and policies to control data retention and disposal....
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By Jon Edwards · April 2, 2008
Last year, Princeton ranked 35th in the Sears Director’s Cup standings, a list that reflects success in all intercollegiate sports. Princeton’s ranking is remarkable in no small part because the university is the only...
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By Jon Edwards · March 12, 2008
Adopted in January by the University’s trustees, Princeton’s Campus Sustainability Plan includes comprehensive efforts to reduce waste and to conserve resources in all areas of University operations, as well as initiatives in research, education, civic...
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By Jon Edwards · January 11, 2008
You may be a typical Google searcher who simply pops in a word or two in the Google search box and hopes for the best? As it turns out, Google has placed impressive functionality...
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By Jon Edwards · December 12, 2007
In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors placed on an integrated circuit would double approximately every two years. That prediction, notes Bernard Chazelle, Computer Science Professor at Princeton, if anything...
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By Jon Edwards · December 5, 2007
A student-led research group at Princeton University, PAVE [Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering] has for the past three years pursued the goal of a car that can drive by itself. The team, which consists primarily of...
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By Jon Edwards · November 7, 2007
At the November 7 Lunch ‘n Learn seminar, three Princeton faculty members described their use of the University’s TIGRESS High Performance Computing Center, a collaborative collection of four major HPC resources, storage, and the...
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By Jon Edwards · November 2, 2007
In the wake of the 2000 Florida recount debacle, many states turned to computer voting machines to increase election accuracy and security. Many computer scientists have long been skeptical of such machines, but only...
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By Jon Edwards · April 25, 2007
For the past six years, OIT’s Language Resource Center has offered a Video on Demand service that permits faculty to integrate film into their teaching. The service permits faculty to submit requests for full...
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By Jon Edwards · February 23, 2007
At the February 21, 2007 Lunch ‘n Learn, Bobray Bordelon and Elizabeth Bennett gave a presentation about newspaper resources at Princeton. The electronic holdings at the library make it relatively easy to locate primary...
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By Jon Edwards · February 15, 2007
At the Lunch ‘n Learn seminar on February 14, Computer Science Professor Adam Finkelstein presented “Modeling by Drawing.” Computer graphics has progressed marked from its foundations in 1963 when Ivan Sutherland created the first...
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By Jon Edwards · February 7, 2007
At OIT’s Lunch ‘n Learn seminar on February 7, Janet Temos, the Director of OIT’s Educational Technologies Center and Joshua Rabinowitz, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, demonstrated the use...
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By Cass Cliatt · February 5, 2007
A new partnership between the Princeton University Library and Google soon will make approximately 1 million books in Princeton’s collection available online in a searchable format. In a move designed to open Princeton’s vast...
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By Jon Edwards · November 15, 2006
At the Wednesday, November 15 Lunch ‘n Learn seminar, Computer Science Professor and Chair Larry Peterson discussed PlanetLab, an open platform for developing, deploying, and accessing planetary scale internet services. A prototype of the...
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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...
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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...
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By Teresa Riordan · August 24, 2006
This month in Monterey Bay, Calif., a fleet of undersea robots is for the first time working together without the aid of humans to make detailed and efficient observations of the ocean. “It’s thrilling,” said...
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By Teresa Riordan · June 16, 2006
Princeton NJ — Emily Carter wrestles with a world so tiny that if you were to hold it in your hand you could not feel it or see it. Yet the type of work she...
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By Jon Edwards · May 18, 2006
At the May 17 Lunch ‘n Learn, four speakers from the University Library provided their perspectives on Google, the popular internet search engine that has become an integral part of everyday vocabulary and life....
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By Jon Edwards · May 10, 2006
Should broadband companies treat all Internet sites and surfers equally? Providers have proposed charging users different rates based on bandwidth usage. But a diverse coalition of activists and companies have cried foul, rallying around the...
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By Jon Edwards · May 4, 2006
When it comes to making your academic life easier, trust a librarian. That was the theme of the May 3 Lunch ‘n Learn where Nancy Pressman Levy, Audrey Betsy Wright and Phil Menos shared tips...
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By Donna Liu · April 21, 2006
Donna Liu, University Channel Director What if the public could listen to the best minds and newest ideas at colleges and universities around the world? What if the academic research and analysis that aims to...
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By Jon Edwards · April 19, 2006
When approached by their teaching assistants with the dilemma of overly large precepts, two co-instructors decided to be creative with the technology tools available to them. Rather than scheduling office hours to advise students one-on-one,...
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By Jon Edwards · April 14, 2006
The Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies is pleased to welcome all attendees to the Princeton University - Microsoft Intellectual Property Conference, May 18-20. Few areas of law are changing as rapidly...
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By Jon Edwards · April 12, 2006
GIS, just another three letter acronym, or an integral part of research and teaching? Today, when students need spatial information, they no longer turn first to paper maps. Rather, they use web browsers to search...
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By Jon Edwards · April 12, 2006
Wednesday night, April 5, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, shared his vision of the future of the web with a packed house in McCosh 50. Just as a two decades ago...
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By outside author · April 6, 2006
By David Patrick Stearns - Inquirer Music Critic PRINCETON - Having long taken pop music hostage, electronically generated sounds often threaten to revolutionize more serious music - why not? - with an infinite variety of...
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By Jon Edwards · March 23, 2006
At the Lunch ‘n Learn seminar on March 15, Douglas Dixon demonstrated dozens of small portable storage devices, media players, and multi-function devices. Mr. Dixon is a technology consultant with Manifest Technology, the Editor-in-Chief...
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By Jon Edwards · March 15, 2006
The Princeton University Library is offering a new way to ask reference questions — through instant messaging. Students, faculty and staff can use their AOL, Yahoo, MSN or ICQ accounts for live reference assistance by...
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By Jon Edwards · March 8, 2006
OIT has once again partnered with PICSciE (Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering) and Princeton faculty members to acquire an additional, significant new high-performance supercomputer for the University. The new system, dubbed Della, is...
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By Eric Quiñones · March 6, 2006
Each time the door to room 309 opened, the late-afternoon quiet of the Frist Campus Center was shattered by the din of 30 Princeton students engulfed by crises in the Middle East. The Princeton Interactive...
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By Jon Edwards · March 3, 2006
In a special March 1 Lunch ‘n Learn presentation, Dr. Maria Klawe, dean of Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, presented Gender, Lies and Video Games: The Truth about Females and Computing. The event...
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By Jon Edwards · March 3, 2006
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, “The real inventor of the World-Wide Web,” will be lecturing on a topic to be announced on April 5 at 8:00 pm in McCosh 50. Berners-Lee is the director of the World...
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By Jon Edwards · February 23, 2006
At OIT’s Lunch ‘n Learn seminar on Wednesday February 22, Computer Science Professor Brian Kernighan presented Millions, Billions, Zillions - Why (In)numeracy Matters. In 2004, Newsweek magazine stated: “Perhaps the Bush administration could use the...
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By Jon Edwards · February 14, 2006
Many of you are well aware that the Blackboard Course Management System provides easy access to a syllabus, a facebook, a gradebook, a sectioning tool, e-mail lists, links to reserve reading, and other course...
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By Cass Cliatt · November 14, 2005
Princeton NJ — A unique partnership between Princeton scientists and information technology administrators has brought one of the world’s fastest supercomputers to the University to spur advancements in research. Working with IBM, the University’s Office...
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By Teresa Riordan · November 7, 2005
Princeton NJ — Pass by the basement rehearsal space in Woolworth on a Thursday afternoon and you may hear electronic raindrops, a fast-forward reading of Dr. Seuss or a deep moaning that seems to...
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By Howard Strauss · May 15, 2005
An interview with Dr. Olga Troyanskaya, Assistant Professor of Computer Science,Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Most people who use common bread yeast use it to bake crusty loaves of bread. Olga Troyanskaya is using bread...
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By Lorene Lavora · May 15, 2005
Adding audio with the Wimba tools in Blackboard can give your course a voice. Many language courses at Princeton have known about the audio tool kit at their disposal within Blackboard - the voice tools...
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By Lorene Lavora · May 15, 2005
Video course introductions increase interest and help students in the course selection process. How many times have you wondered what film to see when embarking on a night out? That choice has become a lot...
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By Lorene Lavora · May 15, 2005
New software makes scheduling office hours easier for both students and faculty. For anyone who holds office hours or who manages office hours for someone, a new tool is available that can make this...
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By Howard Strauss · October 15, 2004
A web enthusiast finds the newest version of Blackboard has caught up with his needs. Dr. Lee Silver is a professor of Molecular Biology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. As a scientist, Professor Silver...
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By Lorene Lavora · October 15, 2004
Office Visit Program expands to include Almagest, PowerPoint. As many of you already know, through our Office Visit Program you can request that a graduate student consultant in instructional technology come to your office and...
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By Lorene Lavora · October 15, 2004
New service enables instant use of campus wireless network. Q: What might alumni, faculty, students and vendors visiting the Princeton campus all have in common? A: Until recently, they could not access the Internet...
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By Lorene Lavora · October 15, 2004
Newly developed tool promises to ease the assignment of students to precepts and drills. Faculty and staff will find the tedious job of sorting students into sections for each course has gotten a whole lot...
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