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  Feature: Supercomputing at NYU
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NYU Acquires Fastest Supercomputer in New York City: IBM Supercomputer to Aid NYU Research
By David Ackerman
for layout only New York University recently installed a new IBM eServer BladeCenter system capable of a peak performance of 4.5 teraflops (one trillion floating point operations per second)...
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Celebrating Computing History Menu Heading
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From UNIVAC to Max: Tracing NYU's Information Technology Achievements
By Neptali Martinez
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In celebrating NYU's recent installation of Max, now the fastest supercomputer in New York City, a number of us began reflecting on all the past accomplishments that have set the stage for this important achievement...
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Enhancing Participatory Learning with NYU Blackboard
By Derrick Bell
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Over the past three decades, personal computers have revolutionized everything—education included. There are few administrative functions in the modern university that have not been substantially altered by the computer...
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Highlights from the 2005 NYU Blackboard Faculty Satisfaction Survey
By Ethan Ehrenberg
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Toward the end of the Spring 2005 semester, ITS conducted a voluntary satisfaction survey of faculty using the NYU Blackboard course management system...
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Change is in the Air: ITS' Password Change Initiative
By Tracey Losco
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Using strong passwords and changing them regularly helps safeguard your privacy and identity. As part of an ongoing effort to improve computer security at the University, you must now change the password you use with your NYU NetID (to access NYUHome and other applications) at least once every six months...
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Identity Management & the Mac OS X Keychain
By Eduardo De León
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Technology can make the completion of a variety of everyday tasks faster and easier, from withdrawing money at an ATM, to communicating with a colleague via email, to paying bills online. What sometimes used to take days can now be done in minutes...
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Alerting Services: Timesavers in the Age of Information Overload
By Kara Whatley
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Faced with what seems like an ongoing avalanche of professional literature in their fields of interest, many researchers feel overwhelmed by the daunting task of keeping "au courant"...
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Getting Employees on the Payroll is Easier with PASS
By Mary Colt & Elease Welch, with Ron Farrell
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Over the past two years, New York University has been engaged in a multiproject initiative to enhance the administration and support of grant awards and other sponsored programs...
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What's New at the ITS Computer Labs?
By Robyn Berland
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As the dog days of August were hitting record highs, the ITS Multimedia Lab began work on a major remodeling of its furniture design and network infrastructure...
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Geographic Information System
Highlights @ NYU
By Frank LoPresti
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From the first days of computational research, the geographic nature of most data was at issue and often contributed to the results...
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In Memorium: Antonio Lopez
By Frank LoPresti
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ITS Faculty Technology Services GIS and statistics staff, and all who knew him, regret the passing of Wagner graduate, Antonio Lopez...
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Data Management in SAS/FSP
By Ying-Hua Liu
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The SAS statistical program offers many supplemental tools, such as SAS/AF and SAS/SQL, that are very useful to intermediate and advanced programmers...
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SAS vs. SPSS: A Student's Perspective
By Ying-Hua Liu
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When learning to do research using statistical software packages, many students choose to work either with SPSS or SAS, and are interested in exploring the differences between the two programs...
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