Technology
Two Indiana University School of Informatics graduate students -- Feixing Tuang and Yujia Zhao -- are bound for Cairo, Egypt, to solve some "wicked problems" at Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a global challenge focused on finding solutions to real-world issues that this year drew over 300,000 student competitors.
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Marie Kerbeshian, a zoologist and registered patent agent specializing in the protection and licensing of discoveries derived from faculty research, has been named vice president for technology commercialization at the Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation.
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PearlDiver Technologies Inc., creator of what is believed to be the largest fully HIPAA-compliant, publicly available and searchable database of patient records in the nation, will use IU's Big Red supercomputer for advanced data analysis, thanks to the Indiana Initiative for Economic Development (IIED), a program that fosters technology development and job growth in the state of Indiana.
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Five teams of IU researchers are the recipients of more than $230,000 in internal grants that are designed to provide start-up funding for innovative research addressing critical cybersecurity needs. The grants were awarded by the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR), part of the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University.
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Facilitating greater levels of collaboration between scientists and medical researchers in Europe and the U.S. is the goal of an announcement by information technology leaders from Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Germany and Indiana University. The formal agreement of friendship and cooperation between the two universities will impact joint research in high performance computing and informatics.
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A pilot project carried out by IT staff of the Indiana University School of Education produced impressive energy savings from putting desktop computers into "sleep mode" when they were not in use. Now information technology managers at other IU offices are looking into making similar efforts, which have the potential for saving hundreds of thousands of dollars for the university.
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