UNC-CH Information Technology Services

Ground broken at ITS Manning site

“The information technology that keeps the stream moving has become one of the absolute keys to our success as scholars and teachers. Information technology is now the intellectual enabler for Carolina’s mission of research, teaching and service.”

 This excerpt from Chancellor Moeser’s remarks at the Friday, April 15, groundbreaking ceremony highlights how IT at UNC-Chapel Hill is a valuable resource with an exciting future. Enjoy the footage of the event presentations online (provided by ITS Center for Instructional Technology’s Video Services).
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ConsiderIT: Audience response systems April 15

Professor Deardorff and Jacques Morin will each discuss their experiences with audience response systems, which allow students to respond to questions electronically and teachers to receive automatically tabulated results — all within the classroom setting. Professor Deardorff will speak from his positive experiences keeping students engaged in introductory physics classes, and Jacques Morin will report on successes this past semester in political science, sociology, and women’s studies courses.

Who: Professor Duane Deardorff, Physics and Jacques Morin, Arts and Sciences Academic Technology Liaison
When: Friday, April 15, 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Where: 404 Hanes Hall
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HPC Revolution 2005

Users, researchers, vendors, and developers of Linux clusters from around the world will gather at the Carolina Inn to attend the Linux Clusters Institute International Conference for high-performance computing, “HPC Revolution 2005,” from April 25 to 28.
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ThinkTank 2005 coming to UNC-Chapel Hill June 5

Carolina will host IBM’s ThinkTank conference, planned by and for faculty and staff from K-12 institutions and higher education universities that are implementing universal laptop programs through IBM ThinkPads, on June 5-7. ThinkTank 2005 includes breakout sessions (Academic Innovations, Program Administrative Innovations, and Technology Innovations in Support of Academic Computing).
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ITS featured in Network World

Security Automation: The Next Wave from the March 21, 2005, issue of Network World Fusion features the work of ITS Networking, ITS Security and the ITS Control Center. For those with busy schedules, we’ve excerpted the text of the UNC section (continue reading this article). The Web site noted above also has a detailed diagram of how our intrusion prevention system works.
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