Google search added to University’s Web site

Searches on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s  Web site (www.unc.edu) are now performed using Google, considered by many to be the industry standard for searching Web content.

The Google Search Appliance (GSA) was added to the university’s site on Jan. 30 by Information Technology Services. The GSA offers several enhancements, including better search results based on relevancy and priority as well as a new interface. While www.google.com already indexes most of UNC–Chapel Hill’s Web pages, the GSA resides on the university’s network and can be customized to find documents that would not be found by the regular version of Google.
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Smythe retires after 30 years of service to University IT

When Jeanne Smythe retires from UNC–Chapel Hill on Jan. 31, she’ll have spent more than 30 years working in technology for the University. That’s an interesting career for someone who came to the University to get a doctorate in philosophy.

Smythe moved to North Carolina after earning a math degree from the University of Michigan. In 1975, after finishing the coursework for her degree in philosophy, Smythe started work for the UNC Computing Center as a technical writer. The subsequent series of jobs included everything from working with a mechanical scanner to supporting and maintaining the academic mainframe computer.
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RENCI sponsors talk on convergence of art and science through technology

Professor Donna J. Cox, a pioneer in visualizing scientific information, will present a visual voyage through three decades of her work at 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13 at the Hanes Art Building room 121. Cox will show how art and science have converged through computer graphics technology and will explore the relationship between technology, visualization and metaphoric structure. She will showcase digital imagery and advanced computer graphics technologies used to make ‘high art’ science stories for museums and television documentaries.
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Freaky Friday will cover Technology Assessment and Planning

ITS Associate Vice Chancellor John Oberlin will present an overview of the mission, methodologies and opportunities of the Technology Assessment and Planning (TAP) group this Friday, Jan. 27, at 1:00 p.m. in ITS Franklin G102.
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