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  Feature: Supercomputing at NYU
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Maximizing Research
By Keith Allison
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The TeraGrid: Facilitating Research with Supercomputing
By Randy Wright
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The TeraGrid is a network that interconnects some of the country's fastest supercomputers with high-speed data storage and visualization equipment at geographically dispersed locations around the country...
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Technology Tips & Training
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Windows & Macintosh Keyboard Shortcuts
By Eduardo De León
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Whether you're using your computer for work or fun, keyboard shortcuts can help save you a lot of time. Many frequently executed commands and actions have keyboard combinations (keyboard shortcuts) associated with them...
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Collaborative Acrobatics: Using Adobe Acrobat to Share & Review Documents
By Robyn Berland
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In both the commercial and educational domain, Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) has become the de facto standard for viewing, printing, and sharing digital documents...
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Identity Theft: No One Is Immune!
By Tracey Losco
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More and more of your personal information is stored in an electronic format these days, which greatly increases the risk of that information being accessed by someone without your permission...
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Next Generation Internet Technology
By Jimmy Kyriannis
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In early 1992, the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) documented that, at the then-current rate of IP address consumption, the Internet was at risk of depleting the number of available IP addresses and overburdening its national backbone network...
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CREATE: A Consortium for Interdisciplinary Research on Technology & Education
By Jan Plass, Bruce Homer, Trace Jordan, Catherine Milne & Jonathan deHaan
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The Consortium for Research and Evaluation of Advanced Technologies in Education (CREATE) at NYU's Steinhardt School of Education was founded in 2001 by Professor Jan L. Plass with the mission to use basic psychological research, design theory, and computer science to...
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Five Things You Should Know About Podcasting
By Vincent Doogan
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Circa 1980, Sony rocked the music listening world with the introduction of their Walkman personal music player, which allowed people for the first time to carry their own music with them...
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From the NYU Libraries: New Tools for Teaching & Learning
By Tom McNulty
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One of the most exciting trends in the field of instructional materials design and delivery is the use of streaming web-based media. Both SCOLA and the Annenberg Media Collection, described below, use this technology to...
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News from the NYU Computer Store
By Kathy Bear
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Technology is constantly changing, and our goal at the NYU Computer Store is to bring the best new technology programs and products to the NYU community...
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Geographic Information System Technology at the Enterprise University
By Frank LoPresti & Himanshu Mistry
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies are "smart mapping" tools that enable researchers to create and manage spatial data and associated attributes...
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R: Open Source Statistical Analysis
By Frank LoPresti, with Robert Norman & Marc Scott
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R is a statistics package that, like SAS or SPSS, can be used for statistical analysis or statistics courses at any level. It is also much more: it is free and open source! ...
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