St. John's IT representatives visit ITS

January 30, 2007 | In News , Spotlight On , Bulletin Board
On Wednesday, Jan. 24, representatives from St. John's University in Queens, N.Y., visited UNC-Chapel Hill to learn more about ITS programs such as the Carolina Computing Initiative (CCI) and to compare notes about services such as IT support, networking and messaging.

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Oberlin to present at WWERC

January 29, 2007 | In News , Bulletin Board
John Oberlin, associate vice chancellor for IT Planning and Technology Assessment, will present at the Worldwide Education and Research Conference (WWERC) in San Francisco, Calif., Feb. 6-8. The WWERC, hosted annually by Sun Microsystems, promotes the use of technology and innovation in education.

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Deadline for Lenovo battery recall nears

January 26, 2007 | In News , Bulletin Board
Faculty, staff and students with CCI laptops affected by the Lenovo battery recall are asked to bring their recalled battery to the ITS Response Center in the basement of the Undergraduate Library by Friday, Feb. 9.

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ITS power/service outage planned for Jan. 27

January 25, 2007 | In News , Bulletin Board
On Saturday, Jan. 27, beginning at 7 p.m., all computing systems housed in ITS Franklin will be offline for an estimated 4 hours to allow a reconfiguration of the electrical power distribution in building. Affected systems include all mainframe applications, UNC-Chapel Hill Web sites, the Topsail research computing cluster and mass storage. E-mail will remain available throughout this maintenance.

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Move to ITS Manning scheduled to begin in February

January 24, 2007 | In News , Bulletin Board , ITS Manning
ITS has received a certificate of occupancy for ITS Manning and permanent chilled water for the facility. Furniture will be installed soon from the first floor upwards, and staff can begin moving into ITS Manning in mid-February. Now that we have occupancy, ITS HR will work on finalizing the move dates.

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People in transition

January 24, 2007 | In News , Bulletin Board , HR Announcements
Welcome Tosha Woods to User Support and Engagement, effective Jan. 12... Wendy Dascoli to Communications, effective Jan. 12...and Daniel McLamb to User Support and Engagement, effective Jan. 22. Farewells to Chris Colomb of Enterprise Applications, effective Jan. 12...Doug Brown of Information Security, effective Jan. 19 ... and Heather Pilkington, Infrastructure and Operations, effective Jan. 24.

ITS in transition

January 23, 2007 | In News , Bulletin Board
Identity Management and Messaging have moved to the Office of Information Security. This organizational change increases the focus on strengthening security in these areas.

Wanted: Web page owners

January 23, 2007 | In News , Bulletin Board
ITS Web Services wants you... to tell us who owns the following Web pages:

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ITS Teaching and Learning to present at ELI Annual Meeting

January 22, 2007 | In News , Bulletin Board
Charlie Green, assistant vice chancellor for Teaching and Learning, and Kim Eke, TL Interactive manager, will present this week to the Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) Annual Meeting held Jan. 22- 24. This year's theme is "Creating a Successful Learning Culture: Connecting Learners, Communities, and Information."

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ITS' memex research featured in Endeavors

January 19, 2007 | In News , Bulletin Board
“Are human beings meant to have a perfect memory?” That is the question posed in Endeavors, the publication that focuses on research undertaken at UNC-Chapel Hill. The work of ITS’ Technology Assessment and Planning (TAP) group on memory extension (or memex) and context aware technologies is highlighted in the current issue. To read about the challenges and potential rewards of this emerging technology, visit Endeavors.