Fall 2003, Connect: Information Technology at NYU

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		The New NYUHome: Improving Community & Communication By Gary Chapman & Jodi Goldberg NYUHome, the University's web portal to a wide range of services and resources, was upgraded to version 4.0 in August 2003. Two major features of the new release reflect both the promise and the challenge of the Internet today.. Read Article Online \| Download PDF Take Back Your Inbox! How to Customize Your E-mail Filters By Eduardo DeLeón Recent versions of many e-mail programs include a function that performs automatic junk mail ("spam") filtering, saving you time and grief... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

		ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show By Philip Galanter On July 12 and 13, 2003, the second annual international ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show took place at EYEBEAM Gallery in New York City... Read Article Online \| Download PDF Close Encounters: Performance Art, Politics & Technology By Kate Monahan This past July, NYU hosted Encuentro 2003, Spectacles of Religiosities, a ten-day event organized by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. The Institute is a consortium of institutions, artists, activists, and scholars from across the Americas... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

		The NYURoam Wireless Network: It's Where You're Going! By Carlo Cernivani You've probably seen them, those people sitting in Starbuck's, sipping a double latté and browsing the Internet on their laptop computers. What makes this kind of mobility possible is wireless data networking... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

		Publishing XML Files on the Web By Matthew Zimmerman The Humanities Computing Group within ITS' Academic Computing Services is working with the FAS Department of History on a web-based publication project, The Public Writings of Margaret Sanger... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

		NYU Libraries' New Website Unveiled By Tom McNulty & Nadaleen Tempelman-Kluit NYU Libraries launched its newly redesigned website this fall. The new website is more user friendly and offers a variety of enhancements... Read Article Online \| Download PDF RedLightGreen Begins Pilot Phase at NYU By Dylan Tweney This fall, NYU is participating in the pilot phase of the RedLightGreen project (http://www.redlightgreen.com/), which aims to provide useful, authoritative research information for college students... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

		Gartner Research Now Available at NYU By ITS Administrative Computing Services With more than 20 years of experience identifying and analyzing the trends and technologies that have shaped the course of business, Gartner, Inc. provides research and advisory services to over 11,000 organizations worldwide, including NYU's Information Technology Services... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

		A Taste of New Instructional Technologies Available at the ITS Multimedia Lab By Robyn Berland With the implementation of OS X on the Apple Macintosh platform in the ITS Multimedia Lab and the ITS hands-on classrooms, new and improved instructional software applications have been added to our software suite... Read Article Online \| Download PDF ITS and NYU Libraries Orientation for New Faculty By Kate Monahan To help raise awareness of the many services available to NYU faculty, ITS and NYU Libraries recently co-hosted an information session for incoming instructors... Read Article Online \| Download PDF What's New in NYU Blackboard? By Ethan Ehrenberg This fall, Information Technology Services (ITS) upgraded the NYU Blackboard system to version 6.0... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

		Tips on Securing Your Windows Computer in Insecure Times By Tracey Losco It seems as though every time you turn on the radio or television these days you hear about a new computer worm or virus... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

		Mapping for Social Change By René Poitevin Mapping for Social Change, a new course in NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, brings together public participation GIS, service learning, and community organizing... Read Article Online \| Download PDF Friday GIS Clinics By Frank LoPresti This past spring, ITS Academic Computing Services' Social Sciences, Statistics, and Mapping Group started offering a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Clinic on Fridays... Read Article Online \| Download PDF Exploring GIS: A Student's Experience By Benita Liao My introduction to Geographical Information Systems (GIS) began this past July, when I started working...on a study of the transmission of HIV/AIDS in Cameroon... Read Article Online \| Download PDF A Primer for Panel Data Analysis By Robert Yaffee Panel data analysis is an increasingly popular form of longitudinal data analysis among social and behavioral science researchers... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

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