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General construction of ITS Manning is 80 percent complete. Current projects include elevator installation, ceramic tile installation, first floor drywall and the ceiling grid on the third floor.

In the machine room (on the third floor), the primary distribution units for electrical distribution, computer room air conditioning units and extreme density pump (used to pump 134A freon to the extreme density overhead cooling units) connections are being installed. Continue Reading

Staff of ITS Desktop Infrastructure have invited Kevin Dean, technology specialist for higher education for Microsoft, to make a presentation on Microsoft Windows Vista. The update will take place at Gardner Hall, Room 08 at 2:00 p.m. on June 7.

The presentation will explore some of the key features and functionality of Windows Vista.

When Dr. Lola Reid, a professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology and with an adjunct appointment in the Biomedical Engineering (BME) department, learned of a new joint biomedical engineering shared program between North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she and others in the BME department recognized two things: that interactions between biologists and engineers would make for a wealth of potential in courses and research; and the geographical separation between NCSU and UNC-CH would require sophisticated forms of communication to facilitate interactions.

Since Reid was giving a course to students at both campuses, she approached Tom Cox, a distance education specialist in Teaching and Learning, who took to the task with gusto. Continue Reading

Save the date of May 30 for “Computing The Future:  Release 2016,” a special presentation by Dan Reed. Glimpse the wonders (and annoyances) technology might bring in the next decade and be challenged to invent the future.  Join Dan in 104 Peabody Hall at 1:30 p.m.

The Memex Metadata project is a joint SILS and TAP project that explores the application of context awareness to metadata about personal educational archives. The seminal vision for this project is Vannevar Bush’s Memex, which is a notional memory augmentation device that supports storage and retrieval of everything that a user ever sees, hears and reads.

Join Dan Reed today at 1:30 p.m. in Peabody Hall, room 104 as he offers a peek at 2016 and speculates on the wonders (and annoyances) that new technologies are likely to bring over the next decade. The one-hour presentation will be followed by a question and answer session.

Join Dan Reed on May 30 at 1:30 p.m. in Peabody Hall, room 104, as he offers a peek at 2016 and speculates on the wonders (and annoyances) that new technologies are likely to bring over the next decade.

Computing the Future: Release 2016 will speculate on technology advances and their potential impacts on everything from education to healthcare to entertainment. Continue Reading

Just a reminder that timesheets, on-call pay and shift premium pay sheets for biweekly #24 ending Sunday, May 28 will be due to the designated boxes or to the ITS business office no later than 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 30.

ITS Business Office boxes are located in Giles Horney, the Undergraduate Library, Phillips Hall, Abernethy Hall, Carr Mill Annex and the Administrative Office Building.

Stand-by pay, on-call and shift premium pay forms are available at http://its.unc.edu/financial/hr/unc-forms.htm

Forms should be sent to the attention of Nealy Hall at CB# 1150