| March 5, 2007 | ||
| 10:00 am |
On-call pay and shift premium pay sheets for biweekly #18 ending Sunday, March 4 will be due to the designated boxes or to the ITS business office no later than 10 a.m. on Monday, March 5.
ITS business office boxes are located in Giles Horney, the Undergraduate Library, Phillips Hall, Abernethy Hall, Carr Mill Annex and the Administrative Office Building.
Forms should be sent to the attention of Nealy Hall at CB# 1150
| March 2, 2007 | ||
| 12:00 pm |
The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) will open its doors to the public Friday, March 2, for an open house that will showcase a wide range of technologies and projects related to disaster research, bioinformatics, public health, high performance computing and high resolution visualization.
The open house will take place at RENCI’s anchor facility at 100 Europa Drive, Chapel Hill between noon and 3 p.m. Free parking is available, and visitors should enter the building from the parking lot entrance. Refreshments and light snacks will be provided. For directions to RENCI, see http://www.renci.org/about/europa.php. More…
For the first time since its installation in 1993, the Octel voice messaging server will have a significant planned outage so that it can be moved from the Giles Horney Building to ITS Manning on March 10. The outage is scheduled to last the entire day although service could be restored sooner.
The move will directly affect all users of the campus voice messaging system and during the move there will be no access to voicemail. Calls currently directed to a voicemail box will ring continuously until the caller hangs up or the call is answered.
Voicemail “Auto Attendant” services (a service which provides callers with options for selection) will also be affected and non-operational during the move. Calls to Auto Attendant services will hear a continuous ring. The move is scheduled to occur during off-hours, so after-hours informational mailboxes will also not be available.
Laura Cooper, ITS Telecom analyst, with the Octel voice messaging server.
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A new system that automates the creation of trust and special funds accounts will roll out campus-wide on Monday, March 5.
The new application will electronically create accounts that receive non-State and non-sponsored research funding. The system will be used by campus departments who request accounts for gifts, endowments, loan funds, plant funds and receipt-supported institutional activities and service centers. The project will eventually include sixteen types of accounts with the first phase being expendable gift accounts. Continue Reading
The Memex Metadata (M2) project is featured in the Feb. 9 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. M2 is a joint project between UNC SILS, UNC Biology, and ITS. The project also receives support from Microsoft Research.
The Chronicle provides a 5-day free link for non-subscribers.
Welcome David Culp to Financial Planning and Human Resources, effective Feb. 19.
The Feb. 21 ConsiderIT session drew 70 faculty, staff, students and guests who wanted to learn about the virtual learning environment, Second Life.
Second Life provides a unique virtual environment for educators interested in increasing interactive learning, exploration, cooperative work, simulation, role-playing, new media studies and training. There are currently over 2.5 million subscribers to Second Life including educators and students from such institutions as Harvard, MIT and Princeton.
Kathy Kyzer, Teaching and Learning, and her avatar lead a tour of Second Life.
Each month, ITS staff who have gone above and beyond the call of duty are honored with an On the Spot award. The January award winners include the following: Continue Reading
